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Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the grown siblings last saw one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Worse, Edison's slovenly habits, appallin ...Show more
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, this is the compelling and confronting story of a sister who risks her marriage to save her morbidly obese brother. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize ...Show more
Checker and the Derailleurs by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician's heart. He has that thing that they'd all pay for but can't buy: on sta ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
Motion of the Body through Space by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin All her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - but now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. And her previously sedentary husband Remington chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. As he jo ...Show more
Ordinary Decent Criminals by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a bold and savage story of the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern Ireland. Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of an international nomad, Estrin Lancaster has a taste for hot spots. ...Show more
Property by Lionel Shriver
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Interm ...Show more
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
“The Cassandra of American letters.”- New York Times When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief? Both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties, ...Show more
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with ...Show more
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good -very good
It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hardÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂliving snooker player. Using a parallel universe str ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
$19.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Tie-in Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a popular teacher. Now, in a series of letters to her absent husband, Eva recounts the story of how Kevin came to be Kevin. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her ...Show more