Strangers at the Port (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Lauren Aimee Curtis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
Giulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left. Her best friend, beside her older sister, Giovanna, is a donkey. She ties ribbons around his head and thinks she will marry him when the time comes. The sisters' days on the island are shaped by ritual, commu ...Show more
Seven Types Of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
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Category: Classics/Literary
Into the Storyverse by George Johnston
$19.95 AUD
$22.95 (13% off)
Category: Classics/Literary
Alan is wrenched from this life by suicide. Dusty, haunted by the loss of the man he thought he knew, must deal his own regrets before accepting one final task for his friend. Every step takes Dusty further from the friend he remembers and closer to the man he is becoming. Dusty's outer and inner worlds ...Show more
My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig
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Category: Classics/Literary
From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction, comes an immersive and searing story of two women, their marriages, and the rivalry between themTessa is a successful writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in p ...Show more
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a cheap hotel in Wiesbaden, unable to leave until ...Show more
Café Unfiltered by Jean-Philippe Blondel; Alison Anderson (Translator)
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Category: Classics/Literary
"Finely drawn . . . Charming and engrossing."--Suzanne Vega, singer-songwriter An ode to the French café as a magical place, portrayed by a beloved author with humanity, insight, and tenderness. At a classic café in the French provinces, anonymity, chance encounters, and traumatic pasts collide against ...Show more
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
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Category: Classics/Literary
"First published in 1946, this humane epic novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only A ...Show more
Bone Memories by Sally Piper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary
This third novel from acclaimed Queensland author Sally Piper focuses on the repercussions, within one family, of a terrible crime.Even though sixteen years have passed, Billie will never recover from the murder of her daughter, Jess, and clings to her memory - and the site of her death - like a life ra ...Show more
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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Category: Classics/Literary | Reading Level: very good
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Now a major motion picture- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, ...Show more
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literary | Reading Level: near fine
'I loved this novel's brain and heart, its hidden traps, sheer propulsion, ingenious world-building and the purity of its commitment to luminous ideas' DAVID MITCHELL, AUTHOR OF CLOUD ATLAS 'A first-rate speculative thriller, by turns fascinating, brutal, powerful, and redemptive' JEFF VANDERMEER, AUTHO ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Classics/Literary | Reading Level: very good
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'It is a fine novel ...Show more
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
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Category: Classics/Literary
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lost…and then what happens? The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgo ...Show more