Compassion: The sequel to Benevolence by Julie Janson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
‘You can’t enslave us all, Captain!’ I yelled into his face. ‘We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...’From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA) and the Barbara Jefferis Award shortlisted Benevolence, Compassion contin ...Show more
James by Percival Everett
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Category: Literary Fiction
James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in N ...Show more
Misrecognition by Madison Newbound
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A smart, savage and hilarious debut exploring love, sexuality, purpose and the delicious absurdities of online life. Elsa is struggling. Her formative, exhilarating relationship with an older couple has abruptly ended, leaving her depressed and directionless in her childhood bedroom. In the relationshi ...Show more
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed ...Show more
Oblivion by Patrick Holland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Evocative and sparely written, in the tradition of The Mary Smokes Boys, this is a novel where the journey becomes the story, filled with acute observation, desire and dreams. ‘Before nightfall I rode a taxi through Narita. Neon-lit restaurants and bars and dark cypress. The snow and a wind from the Sea ...Show more
Ordinary Human Love by Melissa Goode
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Category: Literary Fiction
The end of the affair is just the beginning. Mardi McKee, prodigal daughter, arrives at her father's home in Lithgow, Australia, after drifting overseas for eighteen months. Her previous life is a memory. Her mother has died, she is divorced and is estranged from her former lover, Ian. Mardi had left I ...Show more
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
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Category: Literary Fiction
A haunting story of love and survival that introduces an unforgettable literary heroineLadydi Garcia Mart�nez is fierce, funny and smart. She was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, women must fend for themselves, as their men have left to see ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
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Category: Literary Fiction
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
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Category: Literary Fiction
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
The Desert Knows Her Name by Lia Hills
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Category: Literary Fiction
In this stunning, lyrical novel of nature and history, a girl walks out of the desert and shakes a community to its core. Listen deeply now, if you remember how and why. On a hot October afternoon, a girl walks barefoot out of the Wimmera desert, near the small town of Gatyekarr. She finds sanctuary wi ...Show more
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, which had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might be a source of pride once again. But his fla ...Show more