Fourth Wing (#1 The Empyrean) by Rebecca Yarros
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: The\Empyrean Ser.
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-tal ...Show more
Tom Lake (HB) by Ann Patchett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared b ...Show more
The Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and ...Show more
How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Lucia is a young narrator whose voice will long ring in your ears. She is angry with almost everyone, especially people who tell her what to do. She follows the one rule that makes any sense to her: Don't Do Things You Aren't Proud Of. Orphaned and living with her elderly aunt in pover ...Show more
See You at Breakfast by Guillermo Fadanelli
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in modern-day Mexico City, See You at Breakfast is the story of four characters, leading lives of quiet desperation, who are thrown together by a despicably violent act. Cristina is an optimistic prostitute managing work, police harassment and the demands of the men who fall in love with her - such ...Show more
The Near and the Far by David Carlin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
"From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them. It's a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. It's post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, w ...Show more
The Home Girls - Text Classics by Olga Masters
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life. Set in the mid-twentieth century, these are tales of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters was, as the Advertiser remarked, 'a natural storyteller'. Between the publication of The Home Girls, in 1982, and her dea ...Show more
The Winter Bride by Anne Gracie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Chance Sisters #2
Damaris Chance's unhappy past has turned her off the idea of marriage forever. But her guardian, Lady Beatrice Davenham, convinces her to make her coming out anyway - and have a season of carefree, uncomplicated fun. When Damaris finds herself trapped in a compromising situation with the handsome rake F ...Show more
The Prospector by J. M. G. Le Clezio
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the isle of Mauritius at the turn of the century the young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister - sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring the onstellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the Unknown Corsair. But with hi ...Show more