The Performance by Claire Thomas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the nearby hills where bushfires are taking hold.The house lights lower.The auditorium feels hopeful in the darkness.As bushfires rage outside the city, three women wa ...Show more
The Lodeman by Dorothy Johnston
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
These days, Queenscliff on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula is more often known as a seaside holiday town but 'The Lodeman' brings into sharp focus one of the town's remaining industries - the pilot service. Pilot boats are a fixture of Queenscliff, darting into the treacherous Rip in all weathers to shep ...Show more
Ulysses (Clothbound Classic) by James Joyce
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Set in Dublin, Ulysses tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin (16 June 1904). The title of the work references the fact that James Joyce draws heavily on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey, in the work, creating parallels between Bloom and Ulysses (Odysseus), Molly Bloom and Penelope (U ...Show more
A Moth to a Flame by Stig Dagerman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers
'A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times' Siri Hustvedt, from the introduction In a working-class neighbourhood in 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls into deep, private turmoil with t ...Show more
This Is Happiness (PB) by Niall Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years.For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody ...Show more
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: S.F. Masterworks
George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality - and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power. Psychiatrist Dr William Haber o ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Reading Level: very good
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls. It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of thr ...Show more
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Gilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, determined and fearless. She's not even derailed when her parents drop a massive bombshell on her twenty-first birthday. But then she meets the charming but aimless Martin, and for the first time, Gilgi finds herself blown bewilderingly and dangero ...Show more
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction. 'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...' It's the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-o ...Show more