Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

$29.99 AUD

Category: Literature

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense While on her daily walk with her dog in the nearby woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Shaky even on her best days, she is also alone, and new to this area, having moved here from her long-time home after the death of her husband, and now deeply alarmed. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession, as she explores multiple theories about who Magda was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world, and the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But is there either a more innocent explanation for all this, or a much more sinister one - one that strikes closer to home? In this triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, we must decide whether the stories we tell ourselves guide us closer to the truth or keep us further from it.   ...Show more

The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott

$29.99 AUD

Category: Literature

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading--and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission. As their lives ent wine, unravel and erupt--as myths merge with reality--both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear. The Rain Heron is the dizzying, dazzling new novel from the author of Flames. ...Show more

The Sea by John Banville

$22.95 AUD

Category: Literature

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr an d Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. First published 2005. ...Show more

Love by Roddy Doyle

$29.99 AUD

Category: Literature

 'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John Boyne One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Dav y, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be. Neither Davy nor Joe know what the night has in store, but as two pints turns to three, then five, and the men set out to revisit the haunts of their youth, the ghosts of Dublin entwine around them. Their first buoyant forays into adulthood, the pubs, the parties, broken hearts and bungled affairs, as well as the memories of what eventually drove them apart. As the two friends try to reconcile their versions of the past over the course of one night, Love offers up a delightfully comic, yet moving portrait of the many forms love can take throughout our lives. ...Show more

Last Tudor (Tudor Court #8) by Philippa Gregory

$32.99 AUD

Category: Literature | Series: The\Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Ser.

A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorAt seventeen, Lady Jane Grey was England's queen for nine days before Mary Tudor claimed the throne and had her executed. Jane's younger sister, Katherine, was locked in the Tower of London by queens Mary and Elizabeth to prevent her producing a Tudor son. But the l ast Grey sister, a beautiful dwarf disregarded by the court, keeps her family's secrets. ...Show more

The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

$29.99 AUD

Category: Literature

Born in 1920, Tran Dieu Lan's family lost everything after the Communist government came to power in North Vietnam. Forced to flee with her six children, she knows she must do whatever it takes to keep her family together. Many years later, her country is again at war, and her young granddaughter Huong watches her parents disappear down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to fight. Vivid, compelling and deeply moving, The Mountains Sing brings to life the true human cost of a devastating war, and the improbable power of hope to sustain us when all seems lost. With echoes of Homegoing and Pachinko, this is a standout new novel from a celebrated Vietnamese poet. ...Show more

The Spill by Imbi Neeme

$32.99 AUD

Category: Literature

In 1981, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades. Nicole and Samantha Cooper both remember the summer day when their mother, Tina, lost control of their car - but not in quite the same way. It is only after Tina's death, almost four decades la ter, that the sisters are forced to reckon with the repercussions of the crash. Nicole, after years of sabotaging her own happiness, seems finally content but still can't get through to her sister. And Samantha is hiding something that might just tear apart the life she's worked so hard to build for herself. The Spill explores the cycles of love, loss and regret that can follow a family through the years - moments of joy, things left unsaid, and things misremembered. Above all, it is a deeply moving portrait of two sisters falling apart and finding a way to fit back together. ...Show more

The Vanishing Sky by L. Annette Binder

$29.99 AUD

Category: Literature

A story of the shattering impact of war on one German family, The Vanishing Sky is a deeply moving portrait of why decent, caring people falter when confronted by evil. They've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done. They'd take the sky if they could. Germany, 1945, and the bombs are f alling. In Heidenfeld, Etta and her husband Josef roam an empty nest- their eldest son Max is fighting on the frontlines, while fifteen-year-old Georg has swapped books for guns at a N rnberg school for the Hitler Youth. At home, news of the war provokes daily doses of fear as the planes grow closer, taking one city after the next. When Max is unexpectedly discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home and safe. But soon after he arrives, it's clear that the boy who left is not the same returned. With Georg a hundred miles away and a husband confronting his own difficult feelings toward patriotic duty, Etta alone must gather the pieces of a splintering family, determined to hold them together in the face of an uncertain future. ...Show more

The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson

$19.99 AUD

Category: Literature

After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies run low, panic sets in and still no help arrives. To protect her daughter, Isobel must take drastic action. THE GLAD SHOUT is an extraordinary novel of rare depth and textu re. Told in a starkly visual and compelling narrative, this is a deeply moving homage to motherhood and the struggles faced by women in difficult times. ...Show more

Do You Love Me or What? by Sue Woolfe

$18.00 AUD

Category: Literature

A brilliant, critically acclaimed collection of short stories about love and what it means to be loved, by the bestselling, award-winning author of Leaning Towards Infinity, Painted Woman and The Secret Cure 'Elegant and satisfying, and so percipient of human yearning and loss.' Tom Keneally Written i n sparkling, nuanced prose, the stories in Do You Love Me or What? by one of Australia's most celebrated and beloved writers capture the poignant shared experiences of connection, devotion, obsession and rejection. A woman risks everything for a dangerous friendship. Shyness brings two people together and then shyness breaks them apart. A daughter tries to understand why her father abandoned her, and a vengeful lover chooses between a lie and compassion. Someone yearning for a way to belong learns to look in muddy waters, and a blinded dancer sees through her demons at last. A pilgrim seeking transformation in Florence finally realises how to live, and a girl finds a way to overcome her trauma - but a critic tries to maul her after death, Sharply knowing, wryly humorous and achingly sad, Do You Love Me or What? speaks to the everyday truths of what it means to love, and be loved. Praise for Do You Love Me or What? 'A first rate collection' Peter Pierce, Sydney Morning Herald 'Beautiful prose and remarkable wisdom' The Saturday Paper 'Wonderfully supple and luminous: like poetry, the stories can be read again and again for subtly shifting nuance' Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser 'Woolfe takes up the measure of life in a single line' Thuy On, Weekend Australian 'These stories are so achingly intimate, so immediately known, so emotionally satisfying and moving, and written in such luminously simple prose that it's impossible not to be enthralled at once and lost for hours in the joy of reading.' - Alex Miller 'A beautifully crafted journey through the complex chambers of the human heart.' - Patti Miller 'Something recognisable stirs the reader from the very first lines, often something awkward and always something real, carrying the reader into the depths of lives that accost us with their neediness or their curiosity or their long held dreams.These are stories that engage as they cleverly unfold important questions about love and friendship and the vulnerability of most of us, in the rush and tumble of an implacable world.' - Libby Hathorn 'Lyrical, delicate and poignant, these stories shine a light on the lives of damaged people striving to find their way in the world.' Kate Forsyth ...Show more

Napoleon's Beekeeper by José Luis de Juan; Elizabeth Bryer (Translator)

$22.95 AUD

Category: Literature

A Treacherous Country (Winner 2020 Australian Vogel's Literary Award) by K. M. Kruimink

$29.99 AUD

Category: Literature

WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL'S LITERARY AWARD There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's de sire, and compelled to distance himself from pain at home, Gabriel begins his quest into Van Diemen's Land. His guide, a Cannibal who is not all he seems, leads him north where Gabriel might free himself of his distracting burden and seek the woman he must find. As Gabriel traverses this wild country, he uncovers new truths buried within his own memory. Authentic, original and playful, A Treacherous Country is a novel of loyalty, wisdom and the freedom to act. ...Show more