The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet...' When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among t ...Show more
Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away. Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, ...Show more
The First Friend by Malcolm Knox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A tour de force set in 1938 Stalin Soviet Union, this chilling black comedy it is at once a satire and a thriller, a survivor's tale in which a father has to walk a tightrope every day to save his family from a monster and a monstrous society. 'Crackling with energy, irony, wit and terror, The First F ...Show more
Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A powerful and important novel with a crucial and timely feminist message, from the Stella Prize-shortlisted author of Little Gods. She tells me to sit down, says that she has something I need to hear and it's that they don't cut hair or set curls. Well they do sometimes, but not always, she says. She ...Show more
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize shortlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder ...Show more
The Honeyeater by Jessie Tu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year. 'Translation is longing. You never get it right.' Young academic and emerging translator Fay takes her mother on a package tour holiday to France to cel ...Show more
Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2013 STEELE RUDD AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 KIBBLE AWARD From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again ...Show more
Big Time by Jordan Prosser
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Big Time is set in a not-too-distant future Australia, where the eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy - a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy, nationalism trumps all, and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention. The novel opens as Julian Ferryman, ...Show more
Entitlement: The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind - 'the book of an era' (Independent) These characters, their money, and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap (KILEY REID, bestselling author of Come and Get It). Money talks, but what if it lies? An ...Show more
Hera: Bow down to the Queen of Mount Olympus by Jennifer Saint
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The enthralling tale of a powerful Greek goddess maligned in both myth and ancient history, as told by Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Saint. 'A brilliant read' Women & Home | 'A spirited retelling' Times | 'Beautiful and absorbing' Fabulous | 'A vivid reimagining of Greek mythology' Harpe ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Oxenbridge King by Christine Paice
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Imagine, if you will: the lost soul of King Richard III; a talking raven; a lost, lonely angel; and Molly Stern - heartbroken, grieving, a bit stroppy and definitely not feeling herself. When the worlds of the lost soul of a King and the angel sent to collect him collide messily with the 21st century w ...Show more