The Many Lies of Veronica Hawkins by Kristina Perez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Scion of industryVestige of colonialism Cursed socialite Tragic heiress Just who was Veronica Hawkins? When Martina Torres arrives in the glamorous and vibrant metropolis of Hong Kong, newly married to her high school sweetheart, the world seems to be her oyster. But looks can be deceiving. Adrift in a ...Show more
Birding by Rose Ruane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a small seaside town, autumn is edging into winter, gulls ride winds over the waves, and two women, pass each other on the promenade, as yet unaware of each other's existence. In the nineties Lydia was a teen pop star, posed half naked on billboards everywhere with a lollipop between her lips and no ...Show more
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book... 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of wome ...Show more
A Perfect Day to be Alone by Nanae Aoyama
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tok ...Show more
You Are Here by David Nicholls
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells ...Show more
The Deed by Susannah Begbie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Now that's the way to bury your old man ... he sank into his Jason recliner, wincing. A burial: a body wrapped in handwoven cloth, women dancing and wailing. Too much, in Tom's opinion, but at least they were mourning. To hell with that, at least they showed up.' Tom Edwards is dying, and cranky. He's ...Show more
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-Yong (translated by by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story - an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on a family of rail workers, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of workers and common folk, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing throu ...Show more
The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion.When Samson Kolechko's father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre. Deprived of his right ear ...Show more
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Eventful, atmospheric, deliciously complex' New York Times 'Elegant and highly accomplished . . . dangerously readable . . . If only all novels were this engaging and this perceptive about human nature' The Guardian'A literary potboiler about love, obsession, professional rivalry between intimates and ...Show more
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
INTRODUCING YOUR NEXT OBSESSION...'The sleeper hit of the pandemic' Vogue'This slayed me' TAYLOR JENKINS REID'The ending ... I'M NOT OVER IT' 5***** READER REVIEW'If you only read one book this year, make it this' 5***** READER REVIEW_______EVERYONE IN THE WORLD KNOWS HIS NAME.BUT IT'S YOU HE WANTS.At t ...Show more
Alone by Beverley Farmer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new edition of Beverley Farmer’s classic 1980 debut, out of print for many years. Alone captures the emergence of one of Australia’s most powerful and distinctive writers.Set in Melbourne in the late 1950s, and taking place over the course of two days and nights, Alone chronicles the feelings of obses ...Show more