The Burnt Country by RHOADES, JOY
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A scandalous secret. A deadly fire. An agonizing choice. Australia 1948. As a young woman running Amiens, a sizeable sheep station in New South Wales, Kate Dowd knows she's expected to fail. And her grazier neighbour is doing his best to ensure she does, attacking her method of burning off to repel a b ...Show more
The Prince of the Skies (TPB) by Antonio Iturbe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz, Antonio Iturbe, comes a captivating historical novel based on a true story - the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince. Writer. Romantic. Pilot. Hero. All Antoine de Saint Exupery wants ...Show more
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Laguna shows all the mastery of language that garnered her a Miles Franklin Award... The Choke is full of richly drawn characters; beauty and ugliness sit squatly side by side.' The Big Issue "I never had words to ask anybody the questions, so I never had the answers..." Abandoned by her mother and s ...Show more
Violeta by Isabel Allende
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From Isabel Allende, the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea, this is the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth centuryOne extraordinary woman.One hundred years of history.One unforg ...Show more
Young Women by Jessica Moor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A vivid, bold and compelling new novel of female friendship and what it means to be a young woman after MeToo, from one of the most exciting young novelists writing today. Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin, her life c ...Show more
Three Plays: Rising Water, Signs of Life, Shrine by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Marked by Winton's signature ear for dialogue, these are three searing plays about survival, mourning, and the remarkable gift of redemption.Winton's first play, Rising Water, sees middle-aged fringe-dwellers Col, Baxter and Jackie living aboard neighbouring boats in a crowded marina. Each of them nurse ...Show more
The Picture Bride (PB) by Lee Geum-yi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Could you marry a man you've never met? Three Korean women in 1910 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii where they will marry, having seen only a photograph of their intended husbands.Different fates await each of these women. Hong-ju, who dreams of a marriage of 'natural love', meets a man who looks ...Show more
Eden by Jim Crace
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Set in a walled garden, whose inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, eden opens with a summons. The gardeners of eden are called by their masters, the angels, to see a dead body. It is that of a bird, a creature who has strayed beyond the garden walls. Outside, where there is poverty and sick ...Show more
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literature
This is a Pre-read / used book. Good condition. "In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woma ...Show more
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Available in a beautifully rendered new translation, Alejandro Zambra's brilliantly distilled first novel is a formally innovative, metafictional tale of love, art and memory.
The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The Red Umbrella is a moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan-an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution.In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía ...Show more