Fiction Highlights
The Flamethrowers
$27.95 – Paperback / Vintage
The year is 1977 and Reno has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Buy or find out more→
The Son
$24.99 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group
In a stunningly original blurring of memoir and fiction, The Son tackles the very hardest of subjects in the most readable of ways. Michel Rostain resolutely ducks away from sentimentality and pathos, and tells... Buy or find out more→
Who We Were
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Melbourne, 1938. Annabel's dream is to be a scientist. Falling in love is not part of her plan. But when she meets Bill Whitten she knows instantly that they are destined for each other. She has to wait for him to come back from... Buy or find out more→
Just-a-girl
$24.99 – Paperback / UWA Publishing
Layla is only 14. As she sits in bed with a laptop, her mother Margot sleeps in the next room. But what separates them is more than just a wall. just_a_girl tears into the fabric of contemporary... Buy or find out more→
Now Showing
$29.99 – Paperback / Fremantle Press
Brimming with cinematic references, Now Showing is best consumed with a tub of hot popcorn. For the price of two movie tickets, screenwriter Ron Elliott's criminally good mini novels bring cinema's best known... Buy or find out more→
And the Mountains Echoed
$27.95 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A multi-generational family story revolving around brothers and sisters, And the Mountains Echoed explores the ways in which they love, wound, betray, honour and sacrifice for each other. With profound wisdom,... Buy or find out more→
The Son
$27.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this novel maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as... Buy or find out more→
Brief Loves That Live Forever
$29.99 – Hardback / Quercus Publishing Plc
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Buy or find out more→
Collected Stories
$39.99 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan
Each indelible narrative in the Collected Stories is marked by Salter's great literary grace, his ability to show the subtleties of a character or situation with precision, and his equally assured ability to... Buy or find out more→
Transatlantic
$27.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel about that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both... Buy or find out more→
Viennese Romance
$29.95 – Hardback / Scribe Publications
Michael Rost, an 18-year-old Jewish youth hungry for experience, comes to Vienna and forms passing relationships with everyone who crosses his path: whores, revolutionaries, paupers, army officers, and rich men who frequent... Buy or find out more→
My Notorious Life by Madame X
$27.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In electrifying prose, Kate Manning depicts nineteenth-century New York in all its contradictions - a morass of deprivation, moral hysteria, back alleys and blind eyes - in this stunning tale of sex, freedom, family and the many... Buy or find out more→
A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists
$29.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing
A meditation on happiness - where and in what place and with who we can find our centre, a perceptive vision of where our world is headed, and a testament to the power of memory and imagination, this is the best of novels: both... Buy or find out more→
Sisterland
$27.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
For identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift they call 'the Senses', a special kind of intuition that can allow them to see things... Buy or find out more→
A Man in Love
$27.95 – Paperback / Vintage
The author leaves his wife and everything he knows in Oslo for a fresh start in Stockholm. There he strikes up a deep and competitive friendship with Geir and pursues Linda, a beautiful poet who captivated him years ago. This... Buy or find out more→
Big Brother
$24.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the airport, she doesn't recognize him. In the years since they've seen one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Big... Buy or find out more→
Creative Writing for Beginners
$24.95 – Paperback / Affirm Press
Joel, a charming drifter, finds his moorings in the world of books. Attending a creative writing class, he strikes up an unlikely friendship which dredges up painful memories.Creative Writing for Beginners is an... Buy or find out more→
Burial Rites
$33.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Based on a true story, Burial Rites is an astonishing and moving novel about the truths we claim to know and the ways in which we interpret what we're told. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's... Buy or find out more→
Jacob's Folly
$29.99 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob is a peddler of knives, salt cellars and snuffboxes. Despite a disastrous teenage marriage, Jacob is determined to raise himself up in life, by whatever means he can. In... Buy or find out more→
Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)
$29.95 – Hardback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
Features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. This title is set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces. Buy or find out more→
Me and Rory Macbeath
$24.95 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
A moving coming-of-age novel, with a cast of characters to fall in love with. Rory Macbeath materialised at the top of our street early one summer morning. Looking back now, all these years later, the weeks that followed still... Buy or find out more→
My Beautiful Enemy
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Arthur Wheeler is haunted by his infatuation with a Japanese youth he encountered in the enemy alien camp where he worked as a guard during WW2. Abandoning his wife and baby son, Arthur sets out on a doomed mission to rescue his... Buy or find out more→
Bone Ash Sky
$29.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Bone Ash Sky is the story of an American journalist who goes home to unravel three generations of war and genocide, love and renewal, in Armenia, Beirut and modern-day Lebanon. When... Buy or find out more→
Elemental
$29.99 – Paperback / UWA Publishing
Nearing the end of her life, Meggie Tulloch takes up her pen to write a story for her granddaughter, Laura. It begins in the first years of the twentieth century, in a place where howling... Buy or find out more→
Maya's Notebook
$24.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
From the author of 'The House of Spirits' - teenage Maya is in trouble. She's an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all go so wrong? Buy or find out more→
The Infatuations
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only... Buy or find out more→
Into My Arms
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
When Skye meets Ben their attraction is instantaneous and intense. Niether of them has ever felt more in synch - or in love - with anyone in their lives. What happens next will tear them both apart. Into My Arms is a... Buy or find out more→
The Shadow Year
$24.95 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
The stunning new novel from the author of the best-selling SECRETS OF THE TIDES.A captivating story of secrets, tragedy, lies and betrayal. No one knew one lost year would cast such a long shadow Buy or find out more→
The Memory Trap
$24.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
A novel about memory, music, friendship, family rifts and reconciliation, this is an intelligent, compelling read set in Melbourne. Buy or find out more→
The Woman Upstairs
$29.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
* The new novel from Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children, a top ten NYT bestseller in hardback and paperback in the US Buy or find out more→
Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)
$24.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect... Buy or find out more→
Americanah
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful new novel-her first in seven years: a story of love and race centred around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the... Buy or find out more→
Between Friends
$29.95 – Hardback / Vintage
On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are. Amos Oz's compelling new fiction offers revelatory glimpses into the secrets and frustrations of the human heart,... Buy or find out more→
Good on Paper
$24.95 – Paperback / Hunter Publishers
Somewhere out there, among the wounded egos and frustrated ambitions, among the mangled manuscripts, murky motives and missed deadlines - the great Australian novel is waiting to be discovered. When the infamous Josh Henry... Buy or find out more→
No World Concerto
$21.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press
A prismatic and erotic novel of the intersection of multiple worlds, this is the first novel by Roberto Bola o's early writing partner A. G. Porta to be translated into English. Buy or find out more→
The Crane Wife
$27.99 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from... Buy or find out more→
All That is
$24.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol... Buy or find out more→
A World of Other People
$24.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A WORLD OF OTHER PEOPLE traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets... Buy or find out more→
Letters to the End of Love
$22.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
Three stories, three secrets, three marriages. Buy or find out more→
Steeplechase
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
I force myself to take the phone away from my ear and search for the last incoming call. I store the number under one word, 'sister'. I know I should have used her name but it is all I can think of in this moment. Sister. My... Buy or find out more→
The Childhood of Jesus
$29.95 – Hardback / Text Publishing Co
The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read. This beautiful and surprising fable is about childhood, about destiny, about being an outsider. It is a novel about the riddle of experience itself. Buy or find out more→
Sweet Damage
$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
An intense psychological drama about love, friendship and betrayal from the author of Beautiful Malice . Buy or find out more→
The Rosie Project
$24.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A first-date dud, socially awkward, and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, Don Tillman has given up on love. Until a chance encounter gives him an idea. Buy or find out more→
Harmless
$22.99 – Paperback / Fremantle Press
Full of suspense, Harmless, is the tightly woven story of eight year old Amanda, whose father is in prison, and Rattuwat, a Thai man burying his daughter in a strange land. Buy or find out more→
Benediction
$27.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
A story of life and death, family and community, set out on the high plains of Colorado. Dad Lewis is dying. As the residents of Holt, Colorado pass in and out of his front door to voice their farewells, their... Buy or find out more→
The Great Gatsby
$9.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Illustrated edition of the complete text captures the spirit of the Jazz Age bringing this Great American Novel to life. Buy or find out more→
The Secret Lives of Men
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
In these haunting stories, Georgia Blain explores human nature in all its richness: our motivations, our desires and our shortcomings. The men in these tales frequently linger at the edges - their longings & failures exerting a... Buy or find out more→
The Best Australian Stories 2012
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In The Best Australian Stories 2012, Sonya Hartnett compiles the year's most compelling short fiction from Australian authors. Buy or find out more→
Gone Girl
$19.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
How well do you know your lover? The art of marriage truly is the art of war in the new novel from the CWA award-winning author of Sharp Objects and Dark Places. Buy or find out more→
The Happiness Show
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
At thirty-eight, Lizzie Quealy thinks she has things sorted: a happy relationship, a couple of gorgeous kids, a steadfast best friend and a job she loves. But when Lizzie bumps into Tom, an old flame from her globe-trotting... Buy or find out more→
Sufficient Grace
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Ruth and her cousin Naomi live in rural Failing, Wisconsin, part of a community of Pentecostal fundamentalists. While their families perceive constant danger in the outside world, they are blind to the destruction and devastation... Buy or find out more→
The Sleepers Almanac No. 8
$24.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
2013 marks the tenth year of independent publishing outfit Sleepers, committed to publishing new and emerging authors in style. Edited by Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn, this eighth Almanac, is no exception. Featuring new... Buy or find out more→
The Twelve
$26.95 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
The epic story of THE PASSAGE continues Buy or find out more→
Like a House on Fire
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
'Great short stories have a power like a depth charge, subtext roiling up to the surface at precisely the right moment.' - CATE KENNEDY Buy or find out more→
Bring Up the Bodies
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall. Buy or find out more→
Lola Bensky
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
It's the swinging sixties, and nineteen-year-old Lola Bensky who is heavier than she'd like to be, takes no crap and knows how to work a set of false eyelashes is a music journalist for Rock-Out in Australia. Buy or find out more→
The Fun Parts
$33.95 – Hardback / Farrar Straus Giroux
A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called the novelist of his generation. Returning to the form in which he began, Lipsyte offers up a book of bold, hilarious, and deeply felt fiction. Buy or find out more→
The Fields
$29.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
I slept right through to the next day. Missed the funeral and everything. Mam said it was just as well. Would've been too upsetting. I think of him now, though. Right at this moment. Here in this kitchen. And I wonder if it... Buy or find out more→
The Long Earth
$32.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Junior cop Sally Jansson is called out to the house of Willis Lynsey, a reclusive scientist, for an animal-cruelty complaint: the man was seen forcing a horse in through the door of his home. Inside there... Buy or find out more→
The Amber Amulet
$16.99 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
Meet Liam McKenzie, a lonely twelve year old boy whose alter ego is the Masked Avenger - a superhero with powers so potent, so fast, not even he can fully comprehend their extent. Along with his sidekick, Richie the power-beagle,... Buy or find out more→
In Red
$30.95 – Paperback / Archipelago Books
In Tulli's second novel, set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, the world is unreal yet strangely familiar. Buy or find out more→
Existence - Limited Edition 3d Cover
$30.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF Buy or find out more→
Wool
$29.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and... Buy or find out more→
The Lifeboat
$29.95 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
* THE LIFEBOAT is a daring and adventurous novel set just before the First World War. It begins in a courtroom, where an enigmatic young woman named Grace Sachs is on trial; in flashback, we learn why ... Buy or find out more→
My Hundred Lovers
$27.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Lyrical and exquisite, My Hundred Lovers captures the sheer wonder of life, desire and love. A woman, on the eve of her fiftieth birthday, reflects on her days with one hundred scenes from a life adding up to a simple human... Buy or find out more→
Ways of Going Home
$27.99 – Hardback / Granta Books
Growing up in 1980s Chile, a young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago with his friends while the adults become slowly entangled in the violence of Pinochet's regime - accomplices and victims of the brutal... Buy or find out more→
Merivel: A Man of His Time
$13.00 – Paperback / Vintage
Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his ability to turn sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair... Buy or find out more→
Fishing for Tigers
$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal... Buy or find out more→
Annual Fiction Edition: The Novella Project
$27.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The annual Griffith REVIEW fiction edition is devoted to novellas. Shorter than a novel, longer than a story, the novella is the perfect length to read on the page or as an e-book. The Novella Project is a competition,... Buy or find out more→
The Hobbit
$14.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The classic bestseller behind this year's biggest movie, this film tie-in edition features the complete story of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth, with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED... Buy or find out more→
A Hologram for the King
$12.00 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something... Buy or find out more→
Marry Me
$24.99 – Hardback / Canongate Books Ltd
A sequel to Anthropology and 100 Other Stories . Buy or find out more→
Are You My Mother?
$30.95 – Hardback / Houghton Mifflin
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time Magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, comes the poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel. Buy or find out more→
The Blind Man's Garden
$29.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Takes you on an journey, which culminates in a dazzling final third, a sustained and visionary passage of storytelling. This book describes a specific yet timeless world, and powerfully evokes a place where the line between friend... Buy or find out more→
May We be Forgiven
$29.99 – Paperback / Granta Books
The dark and dazzling new novel from the author of the major bestseller This Book Will Save Your Life Buy or find out more→
Toby's Room
$12.00 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Ellen's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Only then can she finally close the door... Buy or find out more→
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
$29.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
Where'd You Go, Bernadette is a compulsively readable, irresistibly written, deeply touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's place in the world. Buy or find out more→
We Bought a Zoo: the Amazing True Story of a Broken-down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
A film tie-in edition to 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of the heart-warming international bestseller starring Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon and directed by Oscar-winning director Cameron Crowe. Buy or find out more→
The Red House
$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage
After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. But in the quiet and... Buy or find out more→
The Sea on Our Skin
$29.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
A lyrical novel of mothers and sons, love, family and the far-reaching consequences of betrayal, set on a small Pacific island. Buy or find out more→
Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Twelve-year-old Florine Gilham lives in a fishing village on the coast of Maine with her parents in what would appear to be an idyllic situation on the waters in a harbour, where she and her friends run wild in the nearby pine... Buy or find out more→
Leaving the Atocha Station
$27.99 – Paperback / Granta Books
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his... Buy or find out more→
The Beginner's Goodbye
$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage
When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have forgotten she'd died in the first place; and, others just walked straight on by. The accident that killed Dorothy -... Buy or find out more→
One Last Thing Before I Go
$29.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
Following his breakthrough success with the New York Times bestseller This Is Where I Leave You, Tropper's latest novel is a moving, outrageously funny look at one family's attempts to conquer life's surprises. Buy or find out more→
Train Dreams
$24.99 – Hardback / Granta Books
The highly acclaimed new novel by the National Book Award winnng author of Tree of Smoke. Buy or find out more→
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
$12.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
When Hattie clambered from a train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud and the dream of Philadelphia sitting round as a marble in her mouth, she couldn't guess that two years later, aged sixteen, she'd be fighting to keep her... Buy or find out more→
Pilgrimage
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
At forty-nine, Celeste has left behind the religion of her childhood, but her mother, Patricia, remains a devout Catholic. When Patricia is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Celeste reluctantly agrees to accompany her mother... Buy or find out more→
Raised from the Ground
$32.95 – Paperback / Vintage
It is set in the Alentejo, the rural area of Portugal where Saramago's family came from, and follows the fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family from the beginning of the twentieth century through to its middle. Joao Mau-Tempo suffers... Buy or find out more→
Sweet Tooth
$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Britain, 1972. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year at Cambridge. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn... Buy or find out more→
Ancient Light
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Putnam Inc
Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother. Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland. And with... Buy or find out more→
The Beloved
$27.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
When Roberta 'Bertie' Lightfoot is crippled by polio, her world collapses. But Mama doesn't tolerate self-pity, and Bertie is nobody if not her mother's daughter - until she sets her heart on becoming an artist. Through art, the... Buy or find out more→
Tenth of December
$29.99 – Hardback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Instantly astounding and enduringly haunting, one of America's greatest writers gives us his most dazzling short story collection yet Buy or find out more→
The Cartographer
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
An 11 - year - old boy witnesses a murder as he spies through the window of a strange house. God, whom he no longer counts as a friend, obviously has a pretty screwed - up sense of humour: just one year before, the boy had looked... Buy or find out more→
Welcome to Normal
$29.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
This collection of stories showcase the calibre and versatility of Nick Earls at his perceptive best. An Australian wine - maker tries to crack the Taiwanese market. Two holiday - makers in Spain decide to tell a lie about each... Buy or find out more→
The Detour
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
A Dutch woman, a university English lecturer researching the work of Emily Dickinson, rents a farm in remote, rural Wales. When she arrives, there are ten geese living on the farm, but one by one they disappear. Perhaps it’s... Buy or find out more→
The Method
$28.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit medical data and sleep records to the authorities on a monthly basis, and regular exercise is mandatory.... Buy or find out more→
Lost Voices
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award and an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable new novel of gripping narrative power. Lost... Buy or find out more→
The Oldest Song in the World
$24.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Kate, a lonely city woman and reluctant student, is asked by her teachers to travel to the middle of the Australian desert to record a dying Aboriginal woman singing an ancient song. She accepts because she believes that she might... Buy or find out more→
The Chemistry of Tears
$22.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
London 2011, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man she has to grieve in private. One other person knows... Buy or find out more→
The Secret Keeper
$35.00 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright... Buy or find out more→
Autumn Laing
$27.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the 1930s. Now 'old and skeleton gaunt', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship with the abundantly talented Pat Donlon and the effect it had on... Buy or find out more→
The Rest is Weight
$19.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
The award-winning stories in The Rest is Weight reflect Mills' years in Central Australia, as well as her travels to Mexico, Russia and China. The collection displays a confident diversity of narrative voices and a brevity in... Buy or find out more→
A Hologram for the King
$37.95 – Hardback / McSweeney's Publishing
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughters college tuition, and finally do something... Buy or find out more→
The Snow Child
$19.99 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group
A magical novel with a distinctly grown-up sensibility, THE SNOW CHILD will appeal to fans of imaginative reading group fiction, such as THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, THE LOVELY BONES and THE BOOK THIEF Buy or find out more→
Railsea
$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
On board the Medes, Sham yes ap Saroop watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt. The giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey – and the inevitable battle that follows between... Buy or find out more→
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
$29.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
A dazzling short story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers Buy or find out more→
The Age of Miracles
$24.95 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The enormity of this is almost beyond... Buy or find out more→
The Heart Broke in
$29.99 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
Would you betray your lover to give them what they wanted? Buy or find out more→
The Sound of Things Falling
$27.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo... Buy or find out more→
Home
$39.95 – Hardback / Vintage
The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister -- Buy or find out more→
The Guilty One
$24.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. Buy or find out more→
The Prague Cemetery
$32.95 – Paperback / Vintage
The story of a secret agent who weaves plots, conspiracies, intrigues and attacks, and helps determine the historical and political fate of the Continent. Buy or find out more→
The Rook
$30.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
The body you are wearing used to be mine. So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the... Buy or find out more→
Sunscreen and Lipstick
$19.99 – Paperback / Fremantle Press
Stories about women in time for Christmas and the summer holidays. From the mad excitement of first love to the grief of losing a parent, this is a summer collection about mums, daughters, wives and girlfriends from some of... Buy or find out more→
The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel
$27.95 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
For readers coming to the epic bestselling Dark Tower series for the first time - and for its legion of dedicated fans - a fabulous new book about Roland's first quest and a perfect introduction to the series. Buy or find out more→
Buddhaland Brooklyn
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
From the author of The Hundred-Foot Journey comes a fish-out-of-water story of a Japanese monk who unexpectedly finds his community in bustling Brooklyn. Buy or find out more→
Lace
$22.99 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
Four elegant, successful, and sophisticated women in their forties are called to New York's Pierre Hotel to meet Lili - a notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a... Buy or find out more→
Secrets of the Tides
$24.95 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
The Tides are a family with dark secrets. Haunted by the events of one tragic day ten years ago, they are each, in their own way, struggling to move forwards with their lives.Dora, the youngest daughter, lives in a ramshackle East... Buy or find out more→
The Late Walter Benjamin
$39.99 – Paperback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
This fully-annotated documentary novel explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. A startling critical-creative... Buy or find out more→
This is Life
$24.95 – Paperback / Canongate Books Ltd
Amelie meets Knocked Up in a comic tour-de-force Buy or find out more→
Children of Liberty
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
Love and passion from the bestselling author of THE BRONZE HORSEMAN, THE BRIDGE TO HOLY CROSS and THE SUMMER GARDEN. Buy or find out more→
Truth Like the Sun
$29.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
From the Richard & Judy-picked, internationally bestselling author of The Highest Tide comes a hugely entertaining political novel set in Seattle in the 1960s Buy or find out more→
Habits of the House
$29.99 – Paperback / Head of Zeus
A pitch-perfect story of life above and below stairs and an elegy to the last days of aristocracy and Empire. Buy or find out more→
Everything Changes But You
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
his is the story of three women: Hannah, in her thirties and happily married, struggling to reconcile motherhood and her not-so-glamorous career in the beauty industry; her mother Marguerite, who patiently copes with an alcoholic,... Buy or find out more→
The Cove
$22.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
In their little cabin set in the shadow of a deep cove, Laurel Shelton and her brother Hank have built a home. The locals whisper about the cove being cursed and perhaps it is. One day the course of both their lives seems altered... Buy or find out more→
Albert Of Adelaide
$26.99 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
What does it take to become a hero? Albert has escaped from the Adelaide Zoo to go in search of the 'old Australia', somewhere in the desert, north of Adelaide, a 'Promised Land' that he's heard so much about from other animals.... Buy or find out more→
Third Reich
$36.95 – Hardback / Farrar Straus Giroux
Unpublished during Bolano's lifetime, the complete typescript of this novel meticulously corrected by hand was discovered after his death in 2003. This is the first English language publication. Buy or find out more→
Talulla Rising
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
'Duncan is the cleverest literary horror merchant since Bram Stoker.' The Times Buy or find out more→
Dark Diversions: A Traveller's Tale
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Canada Ltd
In Dark Diversions, acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions that takes the reader from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti. When he's not encountering dictators in... Buy or find out more→
Stonemouth
$29.99 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
* The long-awaited and stunning new novel from the unrivalled Iain Banks Buy or find out more→
Let the Old Dreams Die
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The sequel to Let the Right One In is included in this collection of John Ajvide Lindqvist's short stories. Buy or find out more→
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
When the most famous producer in Hollywood plucks seventeen-year-old Elsa Emerson from a party and gives her a brand-new name, a star of the silver screen is born. Laura Lamont. Having spent the summers of her... Buy or find out more→
It's Fine By Me
$32.95 – Paperback / Vintage
On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself. So he refuses to talk and... Buy or find out more→
A Perfectly Good Man
$27.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller 'Notes from an Exhibition', returning readers to his beloved Cornish coastline. Buy or find out more→
What Remains
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
'Before you fall in love, or find a dear friend, you should know: this is the day I will meet someone whose memory will touch my heart and change my world forever. Buy or find out more→
Miles Off Course
$29.99 – Paperback / Pantera Press
In early 1933, Rowland Sinclair and his companions are ensconced in the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic - Medlow Bath, where trouble seems distant indeed. And then Harry Simpson vanishes. Croquet and... Buy or find out more→
The Engagement
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun at his country seat in remote Australia. Liese is English. She's been working at her uncle's estate agency in Melbourne to pay off her debts.... Buy or find out more→
Triburbia
$27.99 – Paperback / Atlantic Books
Bold, brave and darkly funny, Triburbia explores the experience of fatherhood in the modern world. This novel marks the start of a brilliant literary career. Buy or find out more→
Lost Voices
$32.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable novel of gripping narrative power. Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if he asks his estranged great-uncle... Buy or find out more→
Closer to Stone
$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
The story of two brothers from 'The Springs' (a fictional former spa town near Brisbane) – one a soldier peacekeeper with the UN and one a sculptor. Set in 1993 in northern Africa (Morocco, Western Sahara and Algeria) and in... Buy or find out more→
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
A collection featuring twelve new stories and twelve selected favorites from the author's acclaimed collections, beginning with his debut, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , to the PEN/Faulkner-winning War Dances... Buy or find out more→
Forecast: Turbulence
$24.99 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
FORECAST TURBULENCE is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece from internationally acclaimed Australian author Janette Turner Hospital. Featuring a compelling and enigmatic... Buy or find out more→
Silver: Return to Treasure Island
$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the... Buy or find out more→
The Forrests
$29.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very... Buy or find out more→
Deadlocked: A True Blood Novel
$29.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
The brand new Sookie Stackhouse novel! Buy or find out more→
Memory Of Salt
$27.95 – Paperback
Alis father is a Turkish circus musician performing in Kabul when Alis mother, a young pediatrician from Melbourne, meets him in a bar. He plays the trumpet, the saz, the flute, hears voices that urge him to violence, sees angels... Buy or find out more→
Dirt
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The year is 1985 and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house with a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento, California. He yearns for transformation. But he's powerless to... Buy or find out more→
We the Animals
$24.99 – Hardback / Granta Books
A spellbinding debut novel - luminous, lyrical but muscular prose about the fierce passions and hurts of familial love. Buy or find out more→
The Mistake
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
The past isn't dead. It isn't even past Jodie Garrow is a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks when she falls pregnant. Scared, alone and desperate to make something of her life, she makes the decision to adopt out her baby;... Buy or find out more→
Stay Awake: Stories
$26.95 – Hardback / Random House USA Inc
A haunting collection of short stories from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon. Buy or find out more→
1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3
$39.95 – Hardback / Vintage
The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their... Buy or find out more→
Northern Girls Life Goes On
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Qian Xiaohong is born into a sleepy Hunan village, where the new China rush towards development is a mere distant rumour. A buxom, naïve sixteen-year-old, she yearns to leave behind hometown scandal, and joins the mass... Buy or find out more→