Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'It is no small matter, after all, to create something - to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle' Mr Crowe was once the toast of the finest salons. A man of learning and means, he travelled the world, enthralling all who met him. Now, Mr Crowe de ...Show more
In a Land of Paper Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Jiangxi Province, China, 1941 Atop the fabled mountain of Lushan, celebrated for its temples, capricious mists and plunging ravines, perches a boarding school for the children of British missionaries. As her parents pursue their calling to bring the gospel to China's most remote provinces, ten-year-old ...Show more
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times bestseller, A Pulitzer Prize winner, A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011, A National Book Critics Circle Award winner, A New York Times Notable Book of 2011, A PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction nominee. Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salaz ...Show more
I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door. After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship with ...Show more
Sweet Caress - The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives ...Show more
Number 11: Or Tales That Witness Madness by Jonathan Coe
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools o ...Show more
The Dinner by Herman Koch
$10.00 AUD
$22.99 (56% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Paul Lohman and his brother Serge and their wives are going to dinner. Paul knows the evening will not be fun. The restaurant will be overpriced and pretentious, and almost everything the charismatic Serge does will infuriate him. But tonight's get-together will be worse than usual because there is some ...Show more
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face li ...Show more
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The sweeping and compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. 'Dark, brutal, moving, powerful' Jane Harris 'A wonderful book; rich, evocative, original. I loved it' Joanne Harris What happens when you can't run any further from your past? Ohio, 1838. James and Sadie Goo ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid sce ...Show more