10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul. 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But the ...Show more
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy pe ...Show more
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...Show more
Gods and Goddesses (Greek Myths) - Macmillan Collectors Library HB by Jean Menzies (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a ser ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comic classic. When it first appeared in 1889 it became a best seller, and has remained popular ever since. This motley novel has not only been translated into many langua ...Show more
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "Smile Mart" for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in ...Show more
Foster by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her fa ...Show more
Outline: A Novel (Outline trilogy #1) by Rachel Cusk
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Outline Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from ...Show more
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition) by Geza Vermes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A newly updated edition of the landmark translation by one of our greatest religious scholarsSince its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical expert Geza Vermes's translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls has established itself as the authoritative standard. The original manuscripts, discovered in the Judean ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels,- of destiny, d ...Show more
May We Be Forgiven by A M Homes
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction--A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always "compelling, devastating, and furiously good" (Zadie Smith) Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful ...Show more
Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest disco ...Show more