The Silence by Don DeLillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic ...Show more
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each s ...Show more
I Wished by Dennis Cooper
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can't handle.' For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would alway ...Show more
The Tea Ladies of St Jude's Hospital by Joanna Nell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The heartwarming and hilarious new novel by the author of cherished bestsellers, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria has been serving refreshments and raising money at the hospital for over fifty year ...Show more
Our Happy Days by Julia Holbe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set on the French Atlantic coast, Our Happy Days is a warm, vivid holiday novel about friendship, romance and the memories of our youth A vivid tale of love and friendship, coincidence and fate, guilt and betrayal-and the memories of a summer that changed things forever. Lenica, Marie, Fanny and Elsa s ...Show more
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten; Marlaine Delargy (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime
Don't let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet. Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her do ...Show more
The Alchemist - Gift Edition by Paulo Coelho; James Noel Smith (Illustrator); Alan R. Clarke (Translator)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics
An international bestseller Over 80 million copies sold worldwide A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale o ...Show more
Wind's Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the H ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The bestselling and award-winning novel from the author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vi ...Show more
War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes. At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly e ...Show more
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contem ...Show more
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
As new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Cat ...Show more