The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
"BARNES' MASTERPIECE." (OBSERVER). In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the B ...Show more
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Famished Road Trilogy Ser.
So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro ...Show more
Room by Emma Donoghue
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. "Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days" Audrey Niffenegger "On ...Show more
Dublin: Foundation by Edward Rutherfurd
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
"The history of Dublin is that of the whole island of Ireland. est-selling author Edward Rutherfurd has lived in Dublin for the past decade; with the help of some of Ireland's leading historians, he has researched this epic and groundbreaking novel of the city. utherfurd managed to encapsulate the drama ...Show more
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'Helen Simonson's characters enchant us, her English countryside beguiles us, and her historical intelligence keeps us at the edge of our seats.’ - Annie Barrows, co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyEast Sussex, 1914. It's the end of an idyllic summer and Hugh Grange, down from ...Show more
Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
'It is no small matter, after all, to create something - to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle' Mr Crowe was once the toast of the finest salons. A man of learning and means, he travelled the world, enthralling all who met him. Now, Mr Crowe de ...Show more
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The breathtaking new novel from the multi-award-winning author of THE OTHER HAND. 'A cracker' Stylist, 10 Exciting Books in 2016 'His best book to date' Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016 Guardian Literary Highlight of 2016 Independent Best Book to read in 2016 Irish News Top Picks for 2016 Washington Post ...Show more
Who's That Girl by Mhairi McFarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
An achingly funny story from the author of the bestselling YOU HAD ME AT HELLO When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues' wedding, all the blame falls on her - turns out that personal popularity in the office is not that different from your schooldays. Shamed online and ostracised ...Show more
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
$14.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love'. A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback - spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults, cruelty and warring egos, their sexual adventure tu ...Show more
Honour by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, Honour is a tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures. "A powerful book; thoughtful, provoking and compassionate." (Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat). 'My mother died ...Show more
The Interpreter by Diego Marani
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
After the acclaimed New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs, The Interpreter is the third in a trilogy of novels on the theme of language and identity. The Interpreter is both a quest, a thriller, and at times a comic picaresque caper around Europe, while also exploring profound issues of exis ...Show more
High Rising by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the de ...Show more