Imprimatur by Rita Monaldi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
11 September 1683, Rome. Rome is a city on a knife-edge. The citizens wait anxiously for news of the outcome of the Battle of Vienna, as the Islamic forces of the Ottoman Empire lay siege to the defenders of Catholic Europe. Meanwhile a suspected outbreak of plague causes a famous Roman tavern to be pla ...Show more
Such Small Hands by Andres Barba (Lisa Dillamn TRNS)
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Category: Fiction
Description: Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says her name (Marina), her doll's name (also Marina) and her age (seven). Her parents were killed in a car crash and now she lives in the orphanage with the other litt ...Show more
Upstate by James Wood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Receiving word that his daughter Vanessa, who moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, has fallen into a severe depression, Alan Querry and his younger daughter, Helen, travel from England to upstate New York. Over six wintry days, the family begins to struggle with the questions that anima ...Show more
Nocturnal Animals: Official Film Tie-in Originally Published as Tony and Susan by Austin Wright
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge. Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tel ...Show more
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-benn
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Category: Fiction
In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and ...Show more
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmad Sadawi; Jonathan Wright
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Category: Fiction
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The Marvellous (but Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran by Alfred Assollant; Sam Miller (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Introducing the Marvellous Captain Corcoran - he is charming to ladies, courteous to true gentlemen, death to pirates and merciless to the English. He speaks several languages, can bend an iron bar with his bare hands, and has adventured his way across the seven seas with his faithful friend Louison by ...Show more
The Plot Against America - Vintage Future by Philip Roth
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'In The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself... America has not read enough of Philip Roth' Bernard-Henri Lévy When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt ...Show more
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
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Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal ...Show more
A Fixed Place - The Long and Short of Story by Kathleen Mary Fallon
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Category: Australian Fiction
What was it like, living through the social, cultural and political upheaval of the last fifty years of the twentieth century in this Lucky Country? With Life flying forward into the future, what could be held onto, and what self (that place which is never fixed) could fix and hold the experience of tho ...Show more
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
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Category: Fiction
Bennett's debut is a slim volume that eschews traditional narrative conventions. It may be read as 20 mostly interlinked stories or as a novella fractured into twenty parts. It is narrated by a nameless woman living in a small cottage in rural Ireland. Its sections vary in length, with some as short as ...Show more
Storm and Grace by Kathryn Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
... she is screaming, the way he wanted, the way he promised she would ... World-famous freediver Storm Hisray hits Grace Cain like a bolt from the blue. Instantly smitten, she abandons her life in the city to follow him to his idyllic Pacific island. There he teaches Grace the ways of the deep, and she ...Show more