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
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
Lessons by Ian McEwan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a res ...Show more
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn ...Show more
Late: A Novel by Michael Fitzgerald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
'So, was it hard to pretend I was "dead"? Well, my motivation was abundant; it was splendiferous, endless, you might say.'An American actress, renowned for being late, is living with her two cats in a modernist clifftop apartment in Sydney in the late 1980s. The recounting of her story is prompted by th ...Show more
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other bank with his mother. He was not here' When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earni ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
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
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism and the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint in Penguin Classics. In Hard Times, the Northern mill-town of Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgri ...Show more
Day by Michael Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabe ...Show more
A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller.
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making. I ...Show more