Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, ...Show more
Griffith Review 81 the Leisure Principle by GRIFFITH
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes spelt out a vision of the impending utopia. Work, he said, will become a thing of the past. ‘For the first time since creation,’ he predicted, ‘man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to occupy the leisure which science…will have won for him.’So where di ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2023 by Suzy Garcia (Editor)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Literature
New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct experiences, voices and styles from all corners of Australia. Together they showcase the strength and diversity of Australian short fiction at its best.
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
God. Truth. Existence. From the legendary author Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris is a masterful coda to The Passenger.'It's an uncanny, unsettling dream, tuned into the static of the universe' - New York TimesA mathematician, twenty years-old, is admitted to the hospital. She has forty thousand dollars in ...Show more
Springtime by Michelle de Kretser
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still.'..W ...Show more
Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernieres
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. An entertaining novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is immine ...Show more
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A haunting exploration of love and loss by the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde). In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November ...Show more
T by Alan Fyfe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
*Shortlisted for the TAG Hungerford Manuscript Award 2018**Shortlisted for the International Chaffinch Press Manuscript Award (Ireland)*Chilling to read, cut with powerful energy and strong feeling.T or Timothy lives on the economic margins, both using and selling methamphetamine in Mandurah. When a fri ...Show more
The Fish Girl by Mirandi Riwoe
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: STELLA LL 2018
Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Stella PrizeSparked by the description of a 'Malay trollope' in W. Somerset Maugham's story, 'The Four Dutchmen', Mirandi Riwoe's novella, The Fish Girl, tells of an Indonesian girl whose life is changed irrevocably when she moves ...Show more
Panthers and the Museum of Fire by Jen Craig
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
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
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more