Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio; translated by Howard Curtis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Antonio is on the cusp of adulthood, trying to work out who to be and what to do. His father, once a brilliant mathematician, hasn't figured much in his son's life since the divorce from Antonio's mother, a beautiful and elusive woman. A diagnosis of epilepsy and hope for a cure takes father and son to ...Show more
True Country by Kim Scott
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Examining ideas of belonging and being an outsider, this story follows Billy, a young school teacher and drifter who arrives in Australia's remote far north in search of his past, his Aboriginal roots, and his future. Through masterful language and metaphor, as well as a sophisticated tone that is both ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
$23.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting ...Show more
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
$23.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, Eowyn Ivey's THE SNOW CHILD was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback, and went on to be a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wild ...Show more
Lapvona: The unmissable Sunday Times Bestseller by Ottessa Moshfegh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
From the author of TikTok sensation My Year of Rest and Relaxation.NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, The Times, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping & Daily Mail.In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself th ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Gilgameshis the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose ...Show more
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
$37.99 AUD
$39.99 (5% off)
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled t ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: near fine
From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualiti ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Series: Marquez 2014 | Reading Level: very good
One of the 20th century's enduring works, Marquez's masterpiece is the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. Alternately reverential and comical, this novel weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling.
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
A National BestsellerA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceAn Amazon Best Book of the Year So Far (#5)One of Newsday's "10 Books Not to Miss in April"A Publishers Weekly Debut Fiction PickA Library Journal Best Debut of SpringOne of Kirkus Reviews' "10 Novels to Lose Yourself In" and a Must-Read P ...Show more
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid sce ...Show more