The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed ...On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but ins ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lar ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is ...Show more
The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth Church
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
fA luminous and enthralling story of birds and science, ambition and sacrifice, revolutions - both big and small - and the late-blooming of an unforgettable woman. I first loved him because he taught me the flight of a bird. I was too young to realise that what I really yearned to know was why birds tak ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
'Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent and important book about our broken and confusing age', James RebanksIn a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's ag ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more
The North Water by Ian McGuire
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the ...Show more
The Soldier's Curse: Book One, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Series: MONSARRAT SERIES
In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents passing himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has ce ...Show more