An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking ...Show more
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace, heart and wisdom. No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men ...Show more
The Little Liar: The moving, life-affirming WWII novel from the internationally bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A moving new novel from the beloved author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven When the Nazis invade Salonika, Greece, eleven-year-old Nico Crispi is offered a chance to save his family. He is instructed to convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards ...Show more
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...Show more
Table For Two by Amor Towles
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encou ...Show more
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column ...Show more
My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The electrifying new novel from the winner of the International Booker Prize and sensational bestseller - a daring and unflinching account of loss, loneliness and the cost of survival. I heard you laughing from time to time and you stayed lying there on the flattened hay, and after you left, your body' ...Show more
HEAT Series 3 Number 1 by Christine Alexandra
$22.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Heat Ser.
HEAT, Giramondo’s celebrated literary journal, relaunches in a third series.‘An edgy and enormously influential literary magazine…’ – The Australian‘A really lively magazine like HEAT can create the occasion for new writing as well as being an outlet for it, a wish on the part of writers to write up to ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and ke ...Show more
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe? England, The Year of Our Lord, 1364 When married off aged 12 to an elderly farmer, Eleanor Cornfed, who's const ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more