Stasiland by Anna Funder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literature
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
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literature
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Lucy by the Sea (HB) by Elizabeth Strout
$22.00 AUD
$32.99 (33% off)
Category: Literature
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 into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The electrifying new novel from the winner of the International Booker Prize and sensational bestseller - a daring and unflinching account of loss, loneliness and the cost of survival. I heard you laughing from time to time and you stayed lying there on the flattened hay, and after you left, your body' ...Show more