Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change.There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, wh ...Show more
The Gathering by Anne Enright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn t the drink that killed him although that certainly helped it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother s house, in the winter of 1968. His sister Veronica was there then, as ...Show more
The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide ...Show more
River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy #2) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Ibis Trilogy
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the ...Show more
Factory 19 by Dennis Glover
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
They tell us that human happiness lies only in the future. But what if it really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022- a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery ...Show more
Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan's Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walking barefoot alongside a railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and he is ins ...Show more
Small Joys of Real Life by Allee Richards
$27.99 AUD
$32.99 (15% off)
Category: Fiction
The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her bed, Pat said, 'You can't live your life saying you'll get around to doing something you know will make you happy. You just have to do it.' Eva didn't know how devastating those words would turn out to be. ...Show more
Bottlebrush Creek by Maya Linnell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A heart-warming, funny and poignant story about the joys and heartbreaks of country living. A winner.' Victoria Purman, bestselling author of The Land Girls Between managing a bustling beauty salon, hectic volunteer commitments and the lion's share of parenting two-year-old Claudia, Angie McIntyre ...Show more
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi and Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality - and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power. Psychiatrist Dr William Haber o ...Show more
The Country of Others by Leila Slimani
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1944 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier, billeted in her town, fighting for the French. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France, following Amine t ...Show more
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An instant number 1 New York Times bestseller and touching new comedy from the author of multi-million copy bestseller A Man Called Ove In a small town in Sweden it appears to be an ordinary day. But look more closely, and you'll see a masked figure approaching a bank...Two hours later, chaos has descen ...Show more