The Chase by Candida Clark
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Set on the first day of illegal hunting in England, Candida Clark's new novel is a gripping story of jealousy, revenge, class and marriage. An idyllic-seeming gathering of family and friends is blown apart by a husband's jealous rage; false scents lead to bloodshed; love, ultimately - even the memory of ...Show more
A Stranger in My Street by Deborah Burrows
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
It's January 1943. Australia is at war and Perth is buzzing. US troops have permanently docked in the city in what local men refer to bitterly as the American occupation, and Perth women are having the time of their lives. The Americans have money, accents like movie stars, smart tailored uniforms a ...Show more
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
The Chemistry of Tears is both wildly entertaining and deeply moving, a portrait of love and loss that is simultaneously delicate and anarchic. At its heart is an image only the masterful Peter Carey could breath such life into - an object made of equal parts magic, art and science, a delight that conta ...Show more
Last Chance Cafe by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Margot detests shopping malls. Any distraction is welcome, and the woman who has chained herself to the escalator, shouting about the perils of consumerism, is certainly that. She recognises Dot immediately - from their time campaigning for women's rights, and further back still, to the heyday of the Sy ...Show more
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
One Sunday nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting image - inspired by a horrific true event - to spin us into a spellbinding, heartbreaking story about cruelty and innocence ...Show more
The Longing by Candice Bruce
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Everything here was eventually tainted, Ellis thought. In Australia in the 1840s, the lives of two very different women intersect. Ellis MacRorie is shipped to Victoria from her Scottish homeland by her bankrupt father; Leerpeen Weelan, her Aboriginal servant known as Louisa, has lost her tribe in a blo ...Show more
Praying Mantis by Andre Brink
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and particularly under the influence of the great Dr Johann ...Show more
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: good
In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of this extraordinary life, Brooks creates a luminous tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure. The voice of Caleb's Crossing belongs to Bethia Mayfield, growi ...Show more
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Udo Berger, aspiring writer and wargames champion of Stuttgart, decides it is time to take his new love, Ingeborg, on holiday to the Costa Brava. He brings along his new game, The Third Reich, which he plans to practice for the upcoming wargames tournament in Paris, where he will finally meet the sleek ...Show more
HHhH by Laurent Binet
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerou ...Show more
Drowned by Therese Bohman
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Over a sweltering Swedish summer, Marina visits her older sister Stella, who has recently married Gabriel, a writer with a particular interest in the Romantics, and especially Rosetti. As the hot days and languorous nights persist, things happen - almost as if in a dream. But these things can never be u ...Show more
Stonemouth by Iain Banks
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, ...Show more