Julia by Sandra Newman
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel ...Show more
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An elegant and captivating debut novel, Amor Towles' Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent, a young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and h ...Show more
The Tale of Genji : The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel by Murasaki Shikibu
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tuttle Classics Ser.
The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel--The Tale of Genji was written a thousand years ago and is one of the enduring classics of world literature. Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel--and af ...Show more
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2021 'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden 'Exquisite' Telegraph' A remarkable novel, by a wondrous writer' Philippe Sands 'To read Afterlives is to be returned to the joy of storytelling' Aminatta Forna 'Effortlessly compelling story ...Show more
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
"Eyes mark the shape of the cityi>he midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed- a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy slee ...Show more
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.' -- Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming and compulsively readable exploration of friendship and hope, tracing a widow's unlik ...Show more
Stolen by Ann-Helen Laestadius
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The international number one-bestselling sensation- the story of a young Sami girl's coming-of-age, and a powerful fable about family, identity and justice. Nine-year-old Elsa lives just north of the Arctic Circle. She and her family are Sami, Scandinavia's indigenous people and make their living herdin ...Show more
All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
From the author of Costa-shortlisted and Baileys-longlisted At Hawthorn Time comes a major new novel. Set on a farm in Suffolk just before the Second World War, it introduces a girl on the cusp of adulthood 'A masterpiece' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13Longlisted for the New Angle Prize 2019The au ...Show more
Shogun: NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES by James Clavell
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Asian Saga Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES - A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power. Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that ...Show more
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten ...Show more