This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sometimes you need to go deep into the past, to make sense of the present Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new mille ...Show more
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost. Desperate to ig ...Show more
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Various
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hire ...Show more
Saha by Cho Nam-Joo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 In a country called 'Town', Su is found dead in an abandoned car. The suspected killer is presumed to come from the Saha Estates. Town is a privatised country, controlled by a secretive organisation known as the Seven Premiers. It is a ...Show more
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he share ...Show more
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic - a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the twenty-ninth state of ...Show more
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A hilarious Japanese debut novel, where a young woman, thoroughly fed up with gendered expectations at work, announces she's pregnant. She's not. Thirty-four-year-old Ms Shibata works for a company manufacturing cardboard tubes and paper cores in Tokyo. Her job is relatively secure- she's a full-time em ...Show more
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
If you let it - if you listen - a book could change your life. After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can hear objects talking- teapots, marbles and sharpened pencils, babbling in anger or distress. His mother, struggling to support their household alone, starts collecting things to give her comfort. ...Show more
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possi ...Show more
Before Your Memory Fades (Before The Coffee Gets Cold #3) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee ...Show more
The Other Half of You: Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Any mistakes which brought me to this moment, I would not hesitate to make again. Bani Adam has known all his life what was expected of him. To marry a good girl. To live in a nice home. To have a respectable job. To start a family. In a series of letters to his son Kahlil, Bani recounts each of his adu ...Show more