A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Smiley | Reading Level: very good
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim h ...Show more
A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #23) by Alexander McCall Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
The twenty-third book in the perennially adored The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
A special hardback edition of Murakami's epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, now with a new introduction from the authorToru Okada's cat has disappeared.His wife is growing more distant every day.Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.A ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to ...Show more
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger.'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe' - New York TimesA mathematician, twenty years-old, is admitted to the hospital. She has forty thousand dollars in ...Show more
Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'Deeply impressive . . . Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page' HILARY MANTEL'Hungry Ghosts is an astonishing novel - linguistically gorgeous, narratively propulsive and psychologically profound'BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Beautiful, biblical, vast in scope and power . . . Hosein is a new, enormous gi ...Show more
The Best Revenge by Gerald Seymour
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield. In Bath a young Chinese woman has secured the affections of a young brainiac working on that very problem. ...Show more
The North Water by Ian McGuire
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the ...Show more
Lawless: originall published as Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, or rotgut? Whatever you called it, Franklin County was awash in moonshine in the 1920s. During Prohibition, the Bondurant Boys were moonshiners and notorious roughnecks who ran liquor though Franklin County, Virginia. The Wettest ...Show more
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to ...Show more
The Peripheral by William Gibson
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Some time around the year 2020,in a trailer park in the Deep South, a young woman witnesses a murder. She is in a video game, and watches with horror as a drone strike kills a child. At precisely the same moment, one hundred years in the future, a boy is remotely killed on the streets of London's great ...Show more