Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octoge ...Show more
Patrick Melrose Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn
$19.98 AUD
Category: Literature
Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a crue ...Show more
Dear Life by Alice Munro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Alice Munro captures the essence of life in this collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in 'Dear Life' build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life ca ...Show more
Poor Man's Wealth by Rod Usher
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Part fable, part love story, part comi-tragedy, Poor Man's Wealth is narrated, somewhat unreliably, by El Gordo - the Fat One. He is the mayor of Higot, a dusty village in an unnamed Spanish-speaking country under military rule. He and the secret Marisol Committee - a group of local councillors - dream ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection by Ramona Koval (Editor); Black Inc. Staff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The best of the best . . . This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Essaysand selects the cream of the crop. These are the pieces that have captured key events - from September 11 to Victoria's fires - changed the way we see the nation, for good or ill - from Anzac Day to Palm Island - inve ...Show more
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. As Harry watches the birds, his next doo ...Show more
The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner
$18.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Roza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, are the only surviving Jews in their town. They spend day and night hidden in a neighbour's barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother's stories can sing the melodies Shira c ...Show more
The Last Beekeeper by Siya Turabi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
‘I am a friend of the bees. Like you.’ ‘So, you have been waiting for me?’ ‘The forest has been waiting for you.’ Pakistan, 1974: The secret-wreathed trees of Harikaya have always called to Hassan. He knows if he doesn’t find the last beekeeper and salvage a precious jar of his mythical black honey befo ...Show more
The Royal Correspondent by Alexandra Joel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the bestselling author of The Paris Model comes another breathtaking story of glamour, romance and espionage. Success would depend on taking a dangerous risk. When Blaise Hill, a feisty young journalist from one of Sydney's toughest neighbourhoods, is dispatched to London at the dawn of the swingi ...Show more
While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Perfect for readers of EARLY ONE MORNING and THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, Headline Review's Lead Launch for 2021 is a gripping, moving debut novel of courage, survival and the endurance of hope.On a platform in occupied Paris, a mother whispers goodbye.It is the end.But also the beginning. Santa Cruz 1953 ...Show more
Confessions in B-Flat by Donna Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Jason Tanner, protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been by his mentor's side in New York to spread the message of passive resistance. In Harlem, the epicenter of black culture, poet Anita Hopkins tries to capture the message of Malcolm X, which she believes with all her heart: the time is now. En ...Show more
Anna by Niccolo Ammaniti
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It is some years since a virus killed all the adults. Now Sicily lies in ruins while the disease lies in wait, poised to claim the children as they reach adolescence. Brave, stubborn thirteen-year-old Anna looks after her brother Astor in the cottage where their mother's skeleton rests, lovingly decorat ...Show more