Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award comes Lucy Treloar's new novel. Some things collapse slow, and cannot always be rebuilt, and even if a thing can be remade it will never be as it was. Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the fa ...Show more
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An international bestseller and a modern classic, this suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and their remarkable reconstruction has been read, adored and shared by millions around the world.This new edition for 2017 features a cover design by award-winning fashion designer, Tina Lobondi. This ...Show more
Dear Life by Alice Munro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in 'Dear Life' build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life ca ...Show more
Those Pleasant Girls by Lia Weston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Evie Pleasant, nee Bouvier, is back in town. In a figure-hugging skirt, high heels and a pin-up hairdo, she's unrecognisable from the wild child who waged war on Sweet Meadow in her youth. She's made a promise to herself: 'No swearing. No drinking. No stealing. No fires. Trailing a reluctant 16-year-old ...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
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octoge ...Show more
Patrick Melrose Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn
$19.98 AUD
Category: Literature
Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a crue ...Show more
O by Steven Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales...' Occupied France, 1943. France's most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a m ...Show more
Poor Man's Wealth by Rod Usher
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Part fable, part love story, part comi-tragedy, Poor Man's Wealth is narrated, somewhat unreliably, by El Gordo - the Fat One. He is the mayor of Higot, a dusty village in an unnamed Spanish-speaking country under military rule. He and the secret Marisol Committee - a group of local councillors - dream ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection by Ramona Koval (Editor); Black Inc. Staff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The best of the best . . . This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Essaysand selects the cream of the crop. These are the pieces that have captured key events - from September 11 to Victoria's fires - changed the way we see the nation, for good or ill - from Anzac Day to Palm Island - inve ...Show more
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. As Harry watches the birds, his next doo ...Show more
The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner
$18.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Roza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, are the only surviving Jews in their town. They spend day and night hidden in a neighbour's barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother's stories can sing the melodies Shira c ...Show more