Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner wh ...Show more
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love' On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile'i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. Across the sea, Alice Shih's life is inte ...Show more
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
The English-language debut of one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan. Told in three alternating first-person narratives, The Factory casts a vivid--if sometimes surreal--portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern life.
The Details by Ia Genberg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
A famous broadcaster writes a forgotten love letter; a friend abruptly disappears; a lover leaves something unexpected behind; a traumatised woman is consumed by her own anxiety.In the throes of a high fever, a woman lies bedridden. Suddenly, she is struck with an urge to revisit a particular novel from ...Show more
The Fall by Albert Camus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Jean-Baptiste Clamence - refined, handsome, forty, a former successful lawyer - is in turmoil. Over severa ...Show more
Earth by John Boyne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
It's the tabloid sensation of the year- two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, his ...Show more
The Mark by Frida Isberg
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
In the near future, in Reykavik, in a world like our own, society is divided about the controversial Empathy Test, which measures an individual’s capacity for compassion and identifies anti-social behaviour in citizens. Two thirds of the country, including public servants and politicians, have undergone ...Show more
Women and Children (HB) by Tony Birch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary | Reading Level: very good
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hire ...Show more
Pelican Girls by Julia Malye
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
A historical feministic epic, for readers of Barbara Kingsolver, The Matrix by Lauren Groff and Maggie Shipstead's The Great Circle. Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with 'difficult' women. Halfway around the world, on the American frontier, French settlers are in want of wives. At ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
An unforgettable story of love, faith and science, Enlightenment is Sarah Perry's finest novel to date 'A complete masterwork' SARAH HALL, author of The Electric Michelangelo 'Enlightenment is a gift' SE N HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide Thomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers ...Show more