The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal; Paul Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's homage to Vladimír Boudník, one of the greatest Czech visual artists of the 1950s and 1960s, whose life came to a tragic end shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968. Boudnik and Hrabal had a close and often contentious friendship. For a brief period, in the ear ...Show more
Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with husband Andre and son Simon. Their elderly neighbour, Elizabeth, has an accident and her granddaughter, Jodie comes to nurse her. So the players are assembled for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty.
South Wind by Norman Douglas
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
"Full of zest and high spirits." -- The Christian Science Monitor This witty, elegant novel of ideas unfolds on the imaginary Mediterranean island of Nepenthe, where Thomas Heard, Bishop of Bampopo in the equatorial regions of Africa, stops off on his way back to England. His arrival and introduction t ...Show more
Undaunted (#3 Blood Bond Saga) by Helen Hardt
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Blood Bond Saga Volume 3 Ser.
Breaking into a cemetery isn't anything Dante Gabriel ever thought he'd do, but he has no choice. He must recover his father's body so he can claim his estate. Help arrives from two unexpected sources, but their plan is interrupted.Erin Hamilton's best friend is a wolf shifter. The man she loves is a va ...Show more
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge, because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behaviour raises susp ...Show more
The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
"Comic, dirty and delightful. And one of those books which reveals its quality from the first line" V S Naipaul
Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
SS officer Julius Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before an official concert. Unsure which among the decorative statues is Mendelssohn, he tells his men to remove the statue with the biggest nose. Unfortunately, ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
Circe: The special edition of the Women's Prize-winning bestseller by Madeline Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe g ...Show more
The Mud of a Century by Yūka Ishii
$24.99 AUD
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Yūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.Several days after a once-in-a-century flood moves through the Indian city of Chennai, choking the Adyar River with the titular mud, a Japanese woman contracted to an IT compa ...Show more