Wanting by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling, universally lauded novel of desire and its denial from acclaimed writer Richard Flanagan. It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Aboriginal chieftain. Twenty years lat ...Show more
Spy (The) by Paulo Coelho
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Category: Literary Ficton
This is a pre-read / used book. Excellent Condition. "When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city. A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences; a confidant and courtesan who bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men. But as p ...Show more
High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
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Category: Literary Ficton
With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel. The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerising story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives that touch th ...Show more
The Whip Hand by Mihaela Nicolescu
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Category: Literary Ficton
"Who holds the whip hand? From a young mother stealing back her child to a disillusioned lover seeking revenge with a potion, from house cleaners contemplating a life of crime to a woman parting ways with Jesus, these are stories of people living on the edge. In their collections 'The Returning' and 'P ...Show more
The Woman on the Stairs by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned but so are the three men who loved the girl in the painting, the girl on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an is ...Show more
London by Edward Rutherfurd
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Category: Literary Ficton
"A TOUR DE FORCE . . . London tracks the history of the English capital from the days of the Celts until the present time. . . . Breathtaking."--The Orlando Sentinel A master of epic historical fiction, Edward Rutherford gives us a sweeping novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand y ...Show more
Orphans of the Carnival by Carol Birch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
A life in the spotlight will keep anyone hidden Julia Pastrana is the singing and dancing marvel from Mexico, heralded on tours across nineteenth-century Europe as much for her talent as for her rather unusual appearance. Yet few can see past the thick hair that covers her: she is both the fascinating t ...Show more
The Terranauts by T. C. Boyle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Linda is desperate to be one of the lucky eight chosen to take part in the world's most ambitious ecological experiment. Gazing longingly at Ecosphere II, which rises like a spaceship from the Arizona desert, Linda knows she can survive under its glass dome. Competition is fierce between the hopefuls, a ...Show more
Bloodlines by Nicole Sinclair
$27.00 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Thirty-one year old Beth, who has grown up in the Western Australian wheatbelt, is running from her past when she heads to an island in Papua New Guinea. Interwoven with her story about the joys and brutalities of island life is the story of her parents' passionate, tender love for each other and the tr ...Show more
The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2016...How can hope exist when the past is so easily forgotten?..Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev's repressive rule over the Soviet Union. As a small child, Pasha sat at the kitchen table night after night as his parent ...Show more
Kruso by Lutz Seiler
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Category: Literary Ficton
The lyrical, bestselling 2014 German Book Prize winner. It is 1989, and a young literature student named Ed, fleeing unspeakable tragedy, travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee. Long shrouded in myth, the island is a notorious destination for hippies, idealists, and those at odds with the East Germa ...Show more
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
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Category: Literary Ficton
The New York Times Bestseller. Sara has never left Sweden but at the age of 28 she decides it's time. She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books and sets off for Broken Wheel, Iowa, a town where she knows nobody. Sara quickly realises that Broken Wheel is in desperate need of some adventu ...Show more