Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada; Susan Bernofsky
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as "Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"-Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bea ...Show more
This Water: Five Tales by Beverley Farmer
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: STELLA LL 2018
This is likely to be the last work by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing, in her exploration of feminine concerns, and her use of different literary forms - novel, short story, poetry, essay, journal, myth and fairy tale. This Water is a collection ...Show more
The Alarming Palsy of James Orr by Tom Lee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
James Orr - husband, father, reliable employee and all round model citizen - wakes one morning to find himself quite transformed.There's no way he can go into the office, and the doctors aren't able to help. Waiting for the affliction to pass, he wanders the uniform streets and manicured lawns of his pe ...Show more
Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3 by Sigrid Rausing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing
The third instalment in Granta's iconic list of the best new voices in American fiction.Once every ten years Granta publishes a list of the twenty best American fiction writers under the age of forty.In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such luminaries as Daniel Alarc�n, Edwidge Danticat, Anthony Doerr, Jeffr ...Show more
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village.
Let Go My Hand by Edward Docx
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A humane, humorous and ultimately extremely moving novel' Guardian'A darkly comic, deeply moving and thoroughly modern father-son love story' Mail on Sunday'Funny, moving, disturbing and beautifully written' Adam Kay'Tremendously moving, fiercely intelligent and very, very funny' Paul MurrayLouis Laske ...Show more
Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A triumph: spellbinding, profound and almost problematically addictive.... Morally complex, atmospheric, romantic and psychologically deep, The Paying Guests is an astonishing achievement and a notable Booker omission." --Daily Express (UK)The year is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disill ...Show more
The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris, returns with a riveting new tale of unfathomable sacrifice and unlikely friendship during World War II. 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto. When the Nazis liquidate the ...Show more
False River: Stories/Essays/Secret Histories by Paula Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Riffing on truth, lies and secrets, this collection uses fiction to explore fact, and fact to explore fiction. Fictional characters muse upon the truth behind real people, non-fiction pieces contain short interludes of fiction, fiction is written to read like an essay, made-up elements slip into true ac ...Show more
The Prodigal Sister by Darry Fraser
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Headstrong Prudence North faces a dangerous blackmailer who threatens her family and her dreams of escaping domestic drudgery. An enthralling historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. 1900 Melbourne, VictoriaMiss Prudence North is freshly returned from university in Scotland and determine ...Show more
The Blackhouse by Carole Johnstone
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the critically-acclaimed author of Mirrorland comes a darkly disturbing new thriller… Maggie Mackay has been haunted her entire life. At twenty-five, she’s tried to escape the demons of her childhood, but no matter what she does, she can’t shake the sense that something is wrong with her. And maybe ...Show more
The Sirens Sing by Kristel Thornell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful novel from award-winning writer Kristel Thornell, The Sirens Sing is about the haunting force of love and desire that ricochets between lives, across generations and through time. It is a portrait of Australian longing. Katoomba, early 1990s. Heather and David are two young people on the bri ...Show more