The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
Growing up in a family of with five daughters and no sons, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and then, as they grow older, can rarely leave the house. Their mother struggles to support the family as their father becomes increasingly addicted to drugs. But one day their aunt, Kh ...Show more
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
An astonishing novel of unjust conviction, lost love and a journalist's obsession. Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a single playing card found on each door. Known as the 'Narito Disappearances', the crime has authorities baffled - until ...Show more
Skylight by Jose Saramago
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Category: General
Called 'the book lost and found in time' by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago's earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers' offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only now being published in English. Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to mak ...Show more
The Evil Eye by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: General
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation. In EVIL EYE, Oates offers four dark and compelling tales of love gone horribly wrong. The young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual thinks herself happy until the first wife comes to stay...A shy teenager meets a dazzling kind ...Show more
Life: Great Short Stories by Women (The Story) by Victoria Hislop (Ed)
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Story
'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars. All the stories in this volume ...Show more
The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine
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Category: General
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. Love is as uncertain and as untameable as war...In the summer of 1940, most eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England. The battle for Britain has just begun. But young Evie Lucas has eyes for no- ...Show more
Luigi's Freedom Ride by Alan Murray
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Category: General
'It is the small lives, tucked away, that reveal humanity in all its bigness.' A charming treat of a novel - as sunny, light and enjoyable as a strawberry gelato eaten in an Italian piazza on a summer's day. Luigi is a young Italian boy growing up in Tuscany in the 1920s, dreaming of cowboys and adventu ...Show more
Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunesekera
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Category: General
Vasantha is a van driver for hire, ferrying aid workers, returning exiles, and tentative entrepreneurs across the battle-scarred landscapes of Sri Lanka. The civil war is finally over, but the traumas of the past are still haunting. Behind the facade of peace we are made to remember the war: mysterious ...Show more
Frozen Assets by P. G. Wodehouse
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Category: General | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
The "Frozen Assets" of the title belong to Edmund Biffen Christopher and they are the legacy of his Godfather which he will receive if he manages to avoid been arrested, something of a previous habit of Biffen's, until after his thirtieth birthday one week hence. Lord Tilbury, proprietor of the Mammoth ...Show more
Heavy Weather by P. G. Wodehouse
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
A humorous novel in which an Earl and his aristocratic family are divided by what is seen as a socially unsuitable marriage.