Tears of Monterini by Am; a Weinberg
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Monterini, Italy. 1921. Yacobo Levi, an intellectual dreamer, works in the family bookshop. Angelo Ghione, a contadino, makes good wine by singing to the grapes. Lifetime best friends, their Jewish and Catholic families live side by side amidst a backdrop of village communal life, Etruscan tales and the ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the s ...Show more
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
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Category: General
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIt is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay.Willie ...Show more
The Gentleman From Peru by Andre Aciman
$26.99 AUD
Category: General
A dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story from the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name. We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A group of college friends find themselves ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending hi ...Show more
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim
$23.99 AUD
Category: General
A foreboding and darkly comic period thriller considered the inspiration for du Maurier's Rebecca, Vera is a deftly plotted masterpiece woven with intrigueWhen Lucy Entwhistle's father dies suddenly, she is left alone in the world struggling to find her place in life. But on the very same day she happen ...Show more
Swan Song of A J Wentworth by H. F. Ellis
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The last of the humorous fictional memoirs of a hapless assistant schoolmaster.It is to be A.J. Wentworth's final appearance on the scholastic scene. Once more he dons his cap and gown - or, to be more precise, Rawlinson's cap and gown - and returns to Burgrove for just one more time.His final term incl ...Show more
The Lady in the Car with the Glasses and the Gun by Sébastien Japrisot Sébastien; Helen Weaver and Gallic Books (Translator); Gallic Books (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Voted one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels 'Classic suspenseful noir from "the French Graham Greene".' Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful -- and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian m ...Show more
The Unfinished Portrait by Neil Miley (Preface by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The book is built around the relationships of leading artists and actors in London starting in the 1880s. The independent life of an unfinished portrait that is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, becomes the story as the people that create it fade from popular memory.Sarah B ...Show more
Fugitive Pieces: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction by Anne Michaels
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astoundi ...Show more
Max Gate by Damien Wilkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"A witty and sentient writer"--LA Times "Wilkins can command a breathtakingly supple literary style"--The New York Times 1928: Thomas Hardy is dying in the upstairs room of Max Gate, the house he built in his beloved Dorset. Downstairs, his literary friends are locked in a bitter fight with loca ...Show more