The Honeyeater by Jessie Tu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
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
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB) by Markus Zusak
$30.99 AUD
Category: Literature
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, ...Show more
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking ...Show more
Jade and Emerald: Winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize by Michelle See-Tho
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see eye to eye with her strict Chinese-Malaysian mother.When Lei Ling is befriended by elegant, worldly socialite Gigi Nu, she is enchanted by the realm of luxury and freedom that ...Show more
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and ke ...Show more
My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The electrifying new novel from the winner of the International Booker Prize and sensational bestseller - a daring and unflinching account of loss, loneliness and the cost of survival. I heard you laughing from time to time and you stayed lying there on the flattened hay, and after you left, your body' ...Show more
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...Show more
HEAT Series 3 Number 1 by Christine Alexandra
$22.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Heat Ser.
HEAT, Giramondo’s celebrated literary journal, relaunches in a third series.‘An edgy and enormously influential literary magazine…’ – The Australian‘A really lively magazine like HEAT can create the occasion for new writing as well as being an outlet for it, a wish on the part of writers to write up to ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author . On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from ...Show more
All Fours by Miranda July
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely d ...Show more
Parade by Rachel Cusk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked. In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect. Midway through his life, an artist beg ...Show more