The Hundred Days by Joseph Roth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set during the infamous period between Napoleon's escape from Elba and his second defeat and recapture at Waterloo, The Hundred Days describes the great Emperor's last shot at glory and his final transformation from a godlike ruler into an ordinary, humble man. Roth frames the novel through the perspect ...Show more
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the ur-text of postwar ction and the rst great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn t read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin ...Show more
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: ...Show more
PALACE WALK by MAHFOUZ NAGUIB
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Cairo Trilogy
"Palace Walk "is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rule ...Show more
Floating Garden by Emma Ashmere
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Sydney, Milsons Point, 1926. Entire streets are being demolished for the building of the Harbour Bridge. Ellis Gilbey, landlady by day, gardening writer by night, is set to lose everything. Only the faith in the book shes writing, and hopes for a garden of her own, stave off despair. As the tight-knit c ...Show more
Interview With The Vampire: Volume 1 in series by Anne Rice
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Vampire Chronicles Ser.
#1 New York Times Bestselling author - The spellbinding classic that started it all - Book I of the Vampire Chronicles Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love ...Show more
About Grace
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Anthony Doerr is the author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, named one of the best books of 2014 by the Washington Post, NPR's Fresh Air, and The New York Times Book Review, among others. The Los Angeles Times called his stories in The Shell Collector "as close to faultle ...Show more
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
A "New York Times" Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: "Chicago Tribune," "Village Voice," "The Globe and Mail" A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new nove ...Show more
Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the early 1980s, a young Indian boy comes to London to study English Literature. Ananda is shy and sensitive and among his white-faced fellow British students, he feels out of place. Also in London is Ananda's uncle, a debonair, anorexic bachelor in his sixties. Having been made redundant from his jo ...Show more
The Horses by William Lane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
On the outskirts of Sydney, a boys' boarding school prides itself on the horses it keeps. David, a gifted working class student, receives a scholarship to attend. At the same time Gregory, a new master, is appointed. Both soon learn, from their different perspectives, that what is said bears little rela ...Show more
Almost Sincerely by Zoe Norton Lodge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Debut book from Zoe Norton Lodge, Writer and Presenter on ABC's The Checkout, Co-founder of Story Club "Zoe Norton Lodge is an outstanding talent and the very brightest of rising stars on the Australian creative landscape. She's so excellent that I'm even willing to write wanky things like that for thin ...Show more
Panthers and the Museum of Fire by Jen Craig
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Panther & the Museum of Fire is a novella about walking, memory and writing. The narrator walks from Glebe to a central Sydney cafe to return a manuscript by a recently-dead writer. While she walks, the reader enters the narrator's entire world: life with family and neighbours, narrow misses with ca ...Show more