Fiction Recommendations
Dream Of Ding Village
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
The life and death of an entire community is told by a dead boy. His story reveals the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist-capitalist China.
During a blood-contamination scandal in Henan province, villagers sell their... Buy or find out more →
Blue Skies
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
A young wife and mother watches a clock that seems forever stuck at three-in-the-afternoon. Her neighbour obsesses over the front lawn, and the women at the local beach chatter about knitting patterns. Her husband didn't... Buy or find out more →
One Foot In Eden
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2010
The year is 1951 and Holland Winchester, the local thug and a war veteran, has gone missing from his small, backwater South Carolina town. The local sheriff, Will Alex... Buy or find out more →
Bright And Distant Shores
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
brilliant novel that is at once a rollicking yarn and a beautiful love story, with an amazing cast of unforgettable characters and exotic settings - a feat of imagination and storytelling.
Description They were showing t... Buy or find out more →
This Too Shall Pass
$27.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
"It should be known, if you treat the symptom rather than always concentrating on the cause, paths for recovery can be opened up. The deepest of problems can be cleared." "You could say I'm a walking mirage, a hologram t... Buy or find out more →
The Summer Without Men
$25.00 – Paperback book / Sceptre
An exhilarating tragicomedy about the war of the sexes and what makes women tick by the internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt.
'Some time after he said the word pause, I went mad and landed in the hospital. He... Buy or find out more →
Freedom
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul -- the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to r... Buy or find out more →
The Distant Hours
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
The discovery of a long-lost letter reveals an old secret and the truth behind a woman's mysterious past in the eagerly awaited new novel from international publishing sensation, Kate Morton, author of The Shifting Fog a... Buy or find out more →
A Tiny Bit Marvellous
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Everyone hates the perfect family. So you'll love the Battles.
Mo is about to hit the big 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite apparent.
She doesn't understand either of her teenage kids, which for a chil... Buy or find out more →
Fall Girl
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
‘The secret to having people give you money is to act as though you don’t want it.’
Meet Ella Canfield, highly qualified evolutionary biologist. Attractive, if a little serious-looking in those heavy glasses—but th... Buy or find out more →
To The End Of The Land
$35.00 – Paperback book / Jonathan Cape
Ora is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from Israeli army service when he voluntarily rejoins his unit for a major offensive. In a fit of magical thinking, she takes off to hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwar... Buy or find out more →
The Hundred Foot Journey
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
This charming, funny and compulsively readable novel is a delicious tale of restaurant rivalry, the desperate quest for Michelin Stars and the hundred-foot distance between a new Indian kitchen and a traditional French r... Buy or find out more →
The Source Of The Sound
$24.95 – Paperback book / Salt Publishing
The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home, through the terrestrial infernos and purgatories of supermodernity. In almost every story there is some elemental contact with light and sound; the... Buy or find out more →
An Object Of Beauty
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
An irresistible look at the glamour and subterfuge of New York's art world, from bestselling author and Hollywood star Steve Martin.
Lacey Yeager is beautiful, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world ... Buy or find out more →
Rescue
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
A compelling and brilliant novel from the bestselling author of TESTIMONY.
Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic sent out on an emergency call that will change his life: he pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that shoul... Buy or find out more →
The New Yorker Stories
$41.95 – Hardcover book / Scribner
Collects every Beattie story published in The New Yorker magazine throughout a 35-year period, in an anthology that offers insight into her precise character creation and insight into modern American family life. By the ... Buy or find out more →
20 Under 40: Stories From The New Yorker
$21.95 – Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company
In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of “20 Under 40”—the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twent... Buy or find out more →
Aphrodite's Hat
$16.95 – Hardcover book / Fourth Estate
The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and disappointed; the differing shades of loves between f... Buy or find out more →
Rumpole At Christmas
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Pantos, puds and a Father Christmas who isn't quite what he seems to be...
Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas - time has a horrible habit of hanging heavily on the hands as the usual rituals are observed: excha... Buy or find out more →
While The Women Are Sleeping
$0.00 – Hardcover book / New Directions
Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of his generation, Javier Marias is best known for his spy trilogy, Your Face Tomorrow , which has been compared to Proust and hailed as one of the great modern European novels. ... Buy or find out more →
Undercover: A Novel Of A Life
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Life in the Mexican drug Cartels.
Mexican drug cartels. Double agents. International money laundering. Gun fights. Massacres.
This is a novel based on the life of Keith Bulfin - a conservative Melbourne father, pushing m... Buy or find out more →
Minding Frankie
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Orion
Noel and Lisa are among the most supportive parents at the nursery school. Never late to pick up their little girl, always patient and delighted to see her at the end of the day. But in fact neither of them are Frankie's... Buy or find out more →
A Reliable Wife
$22.99 – Paperback book / Orion
Set in the American Midwest in 1907, A RELIABLE WIFE is the story of Ralph Truitt, a wealthy but lonely man in his fifties who places an ad in the paper for a reliable wife. Catherine Land, a beautiful thirty-four year o... Buy or find out more →
Djibouti
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Crime fiction grand master Leonard, who turns 85 in October, remains in top form. He has a new publisher and a new subject- Somalian pirates- but all the signature Leonard elements are shining as brightly as ever: the ba... Buy or find out more →
Best European Fiction 2011
$22.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press
Best European Fiction 2011 is the second installment of an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur "Genius-Award" winner Aleksandar Hemon, with a preface by Iris... Buy or find out more →
Doctor Zhivago
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
This title is from the acclaimed translators of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Sovie... Buy or find out more →
Rickshaw Boy
$24.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driver
First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xian... Buy or find out more →
Tree Of Codes
$60.95 – Paperback book / Visual Editions
Tree of Codes, is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer.
With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Initially deemed imp... Buy or find out more →
Serena
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The year is 1929 and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire.
Serena is new to the mountains— but she soon proves herself the equal of any worker... Buy or find out more →
How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Corvus
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time.
Mi... Buy or find out more →
Fortune Cookie
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Viking
Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for Samuel Oswald Wing, an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There i... Buy or find out more →
Sister
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
What would you do if your sister disappeared without a trace? This is an emotionally fraught and at some times terrifying story about two sisters and the strength that binds them.
My sister would never have killed hersel... Buy or find out more →
Mr Chartwell
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Fig Tree
It's July 1964.
In bed at home in Kent, Winston Churchill is waking up. There's a visitor in the room, someone he hasn't seen for a while, a dark, mute bulk, watching him with tortured concentration. It's Mr Chartwell.
I... Buy or find out more →
Surface Detail
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Orbit
The dazzling new Culture novel from a modern master of science fiction - a tour de force of brilliant storytelling, world-building and imagination.
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begin... Buy or find out more →
A Dead Hand
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'The most gifted, the most prodigal writer of his generation' JONATHAN RABAN
Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. Lounging in Calcutta one day, he receives a mysterious letter. It comes from an American ... Buy or find out more →
Fame
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Quercus
In the first of Fame’s nine stories, the technician Ebling whose high point of the week is the Wiener Schnitzel on the office canteen menu, at last succumbs to the blandishments of the mobile phone and through an error i... Buy or find out more →
The Death Of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
An immortal story of chivalry, treachery and death brought to new life for our times.
The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan... Buy or find out more →
Pereira Maintains
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Canongate
Dr Peirera, an editor at a second-rate Lisbon newspaper, wants nothing to do with European politics. He’s happy to translate 19th-century French stories. His closest confidante is a photograph of his late wife. All this ... Buy or find out more →
The Dog of the Marriage
$24.95$12.95 – Paperback book / Quercus
A quietly powerful presence in American fiction during the past two decades, these collected stories show the true scale of Amy Hempel s achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart, neurotic and somewhat damage... Buy or find out more →
Solar
$32.95$12.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
An engrossing, satirical and very funny new novel on climate change
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name t... Buy or find out more →
Mr Shakespeare's Bastard
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
In failing health, Aerlene Ward, an elderly housekeeper in an Oxfordshire manor, feels compelled to confess the incredible secret that has shaped her life: she is the illegitimate daughter of William Shakespeare, England... Buy or find out more →
The Penguin Book Of The Ocean
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
THE WORLD'S FINEST WRITING ABOUT THE WORLD'S WILDEST PLACE
Ever since the first travellers reached the coast of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, the ocean has been one of the wellsprings of the human imaginatio... Buy or find out more →
Nourishment
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother; working at the local gelatine factory – to help the war effort. Her life is thrown into... Buy or find out more →
Theodora
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
A brilliant new novel from the author of Singling out the Couples, State of Happiness and Parallel Lies.
Justinian took a wife: and the manner she was born and bred, and wedded to this man, tore up the Roman Empire by th... Buy or find out more →
The Man Who Loved Children
$24.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
"I am convinced that tens of thousands of people would bless the day that this book was published, if only they could be exposed to it." JONATHAN FRANZEN
The Man Who Loved Children is Christina Stead's masterpiece about ... Buy or find out more →
The Man In The Wooden Hat
$24.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
For those of you who loved Gardam’s Old Filth, this is the perfect companion. Old Filth traced the life of Sir Edward Feathers: judge, expat and Raj orphan, whose relationship with his wife, while central to his story,... Buy or find out more →
The Wrong Blood
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
In the Basque Country in northern Spain, just before the Civil War, three men in dinner suits stop for a drink at a bar before continuing on their way to a wedding. Their trip is interrupted when their leader, the wealth... Buy or find out more →
How It Feels
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
"I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was."
An old friend, a best friend, a first love and the dreamer Neil Cronk who connects them all...
Four schoolfriends are on the verge of adulthood and the next 12 hou... Buy or find out more →
War Dances
$26.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
From one of the most original and celebrated writers working in America today, War Dances is a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explore the precarious balance between self-preservation and external ... Buy or find out more →
Preincarnate
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
Australia's pre-eminent comic Renaissance man turns his genius to novel writing. Having conquered television, radio, theatre and film, Shaun Micallef smashes his mighty fist onto the keyboard of his soul and produces a n... Buy or find out more →
The Lotus Eaters
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
As the fall of Saigon begins in 1975, two lovers make their way through the streets, desperately trying to catch one of the last planes out. Helen Adams, a photojournalist, must leave behind a war she has become addicted... Buy or find out more →
Player One
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
From the bestselling author of Jpod and Generation X
International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate peop... Buy or find out more →
The Interrogative Mood
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Profile
The Interrogative Mood is Powell's playful and profound response to life, a bebop solo of a book in which every sentence is a question.
Are you happy? Do we need galoshes? Are bluebirds perfect? Do you know the distincti... Buy or find out more →
The Philanthropist
$27.95 – Paperback book / Sleepers Publishing
This novel centres on Charles Bradshaw, an ageing tycoon haunted by his past. When he suffers a heart attack, he abruptly retires and announces that he will give his fortune to charity. This leads to conflict with his wi... Buy or find out more →
The Lacuna
$35.00$13.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
The first novel in ten years from Barbara Kingsolver, author of the international bestseller, The Poisonwood Bible.
'You had better write all this in your notebook, she said, the story of what happened to us in Mexico. S... Buy or find out more →
Walking To Hollywood
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
An extraordinary triptych in which Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties.
Walking to Hollywood is an extraordinary triptych in which Will... Buy or find out more →
Mary Ann In Autumn
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
The brilliant new episode in the magical Tales of the City series.
'Everything around her was familiar but somehow foreign to her own experience, like a place she had seen in a movie but had never actually visited. She h... Buy or find out more →
The Best Australian Stories 2010
$29.95$10.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In The Best Australian Stories 2010, Cate Kennedy selects the year’s most exciting short fiction. Featuring established masters alongside fresh new voices, this diverse collection is a perfect companion for summer and an... Buy or find out more →
Moonlight Mile
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston suburb in 1997. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led savvy, tough-nosed investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risk... Buy or find out more →
Griffith Review 30: The Annual Fiction Edition
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Griffith REVIEW’s second annual fiction collection will focus on the Pacific region: from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia. What binds us? What pulls us apart?
As economic, political... Buy or find out more →
All Clear
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
From the author of Blackout comes the final thrilling instalment of the enormously entertaining story of time travel, war and the deeds of ordinary people who shape history.
In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willi... Buy or find out more →
X'ed Out
$27.95 – Hardcover book / Pantheon
From the creator of Black Hole: the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color.
Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and the... Buy or find out more →
Amandine
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The first novel from internationally bestselling author, Marlena de Blasi, Amandine is a sweeping historical drama of love, loss and family.
'A classic, expertly wrought novel of love, loss, and tangled loyalties, Amandi... Buy or find out more →
When Colts Ran
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Alfred A Knopf
Shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
There was nothing more definite when it came to promise than the worn old earth.'
In this sweeping epic of friendship, toil, hope and failed promise, multi-award-wi... Buy or find out more →
The Empty Family
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
In the nine captivating stories that make up 'The Empty Family', Colm Tibn delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their... Buy or find out more →
The Plantation
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse to speak about her sister who disappe... Buy or find out more →
Somebody To Love
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A provocative novel about love and death and the narrow line between them.
Over one weekend in a small Tasmanian town, a transexual mortician prepares three bodies for burial at a funeral home. As she carefully works on ... Buy or find out more →
Dark Matter: A Ghost Story
$0.00 – Paperback book / Orion
A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north.
January 1937. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to be the wireles... Buy or find out more →
Sunset Park
$32.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Faber
A compelling story of love and forgiveness, from the bestselling author of Invisible and The Brooklyn Follies.
In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of famili... Buy or find out more →
Hand Me Down World
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid’s uniform and a knife stashed i... Buy or find out more →
Nemesis
$39.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
An absolutely brilliant new novel by one of the world's great writers
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In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with... Buy or find out more →
The Countesses Of Castello
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Three sisters live in three flats in an aristocratic palazzo in Cagliari’s ancient Castello quarter, where rich and poor are mixed together just as they were in the past. The eldest, Noemi, dreams of lost splendours, whi... Buy or find out more →
A Pure Clear Light
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project … what ... Buy or find out more →
A Darker Music
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Winner of the 2010 Scribe Fiction Prize.
When Mary Lanyon takes on the job of temporary housekeeper at Downe, a famous Merino stud, she is looking forward to staying in a gracious homestead with the wealthy Hazlitt famil... Buy or find out more →
A Visit From The Goon Squad
$39.95 – Hardcover book /
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, trouble... Buy or find out more →
Three Seconds
$32.95$19.95 – Trade paperback / Quercus
Three Seconds won the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award 2009 for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year.
Piet Hoffman is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even awa... Buy or find out more →
Blossoms And Shadows
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
From the author of the phenomenal and bestselling TALES OF THE OTORI series comes a new stand-alone historical novel set in 19th century Japan.
This is the story of the birth of modern Japan, told by Tsuru, a young woman... Buy or find out more →
The Weekend
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Orion
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart.
They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they’ve taken since their yout... Buy or find out more →
The Brave
$15.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Nicholas Evans's most powerful and ambitious novel yet.
The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It’s 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staf... Buy or find out more →
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
$27.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
The stories in this collection, like the stories in A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS , are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of the 21st century, where economic development has led to new situa... Buy or find out more →
Notorious
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A literary mystery, a love story, a book of poetry and violation, faith and chaos, redemption and destruction, Notorious is a masterpiece of imagination and evocation. It will take your breath away.
She came walking out ... Buy or find out more →
Fall Of Giants
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.
It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams... Buy or find out more →
Harbour
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten.
And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow.... Buy or find out more →
The Elephant's Journey
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
Solomon the elephant’s life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom João III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, ... Buy or find out more →
Ape House
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
An absorbing, heart-warming and ultimately uplifting story of how six bonobo apes change the lives of three humans, from master storyteller Sara Gruen, author of the international bestseller, Water for Elephants.
Sam, Bo... Buy or find out more →
Our Kind Of Traitor
$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Britain is in the depths of recession.A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua.By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire c... Buy or find out more →
Luka And The Fire Of Life
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
A glittering, magical fable, the follow-up to the bestselling Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka’s stor... Buy or find out more →
Borrowed Landscape
$29.95 – Paperback book /
Helen Heritage’s powerful short fiction collection, The Messenger, gave promise of things to come. Borrowed Landscape is Heritage’s first novel, fulfilling expectations with its reach and subtlety. Louise is a Melbourne ... Buy or find out more →
Hamlet
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Read Nicki Greenberg's guest blog post about adapting Hamlet into a graphic novel.
Richly imagined, this is an audaciously brilliant tour de force from the creator of the graphic novel adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Th... Buy or find out more →
True Things About Me
$15.00 – Trade paperback / Canongate
When the narrator of True Things About Me meets a charismatic man at work, they quickly begin to build a life together. But what lies beneath is a relationship immersed in lust and obsession. When her lover’s visits beco... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Mean
$30.00$12.95 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
In a feat of historical imagination The Golden Mean brilliantly imagines the relationship between Aristotle and his pupil, later the virtual psychopath and world conqueror, Alexander the Great.
As The Golden Mean opens, ... Buy or find out more →
Elliot Allagash
$10.00 – Paperback book / Serpents Tail
As manipulative as Cruel Intentions, as malicious as Heathers, as competitive as Election, as geeky as Napoleon Dynamite, Elliot Allagash is your teen movie fantasy made real on the page.
Seymour isn't cool, but he isn't... Buy or find out more →
The Lost And Forgotten Languages Of Shanghai
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
A moving and atmospheric debut about love and language set in modern-day Shanghai.
Li Jing, a high-flying financier, has just joined his father for dinner at the grand Swan Hotel in central Shanghai when, without warning... Buy or find out more →
The Finkler Question
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Funny, furious, unflinching - an extraordinary novel from the award-winning giant of literature, Howard Jacobson.
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disap... Buy or find out more →
By Nightfall
$27.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties, married for nearly twenty years, committed careers in the arts - he an art dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft in Manhattan′s Soho, they are admirable, enviable contemporary... Buy or find out more →
Boxer, Beetle
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
This is a novel for people with breeding.
Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while sat... Buy or find out more →
Lights Out In Wonderland
$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
The spectacular third novel from Booker Prize winner, DBC Pierre: a dazzling odyssey and a universal commentary on our times.
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thin... Buy or find out more →
Started Early, Took My Dog
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
The fourth novel featuring Jackson Brodie from the bestselling author of When Will There Be Good News?
A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One mo... Buy or find out more →
Having Cried Wolf
$24.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
Small towns harbour secrets. Rising, receding and returning like the tides lapping the fictional coastal town of Kinsale, the stories in this collection revolve around Alice and Grace, friends since childhood, who grow t... Buy or find out more →
At Home With The Templetons
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Other people's families aren't as perfect as they seem.
When the Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in country Australia, they set the locals talking – and with good reason. From the outsi... Buy or find out more →
The Convalescent
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hunter Publishers
‘Jessica Anthony understands that one of the chief purposes of the novel is to enchant. The Convalescent is wise and witty -- a great story full of great stories.’ — Sam Lipsyte
This is the story of Rovar Ákos Pfli... Buy or find out more →
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$0.00 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
The author of 'one of the great English novels of the past ten years' moves to the next level, with a novel of thrilling action, imagination and ambition, perfect for fans of Bolano and Pynchon. DESCRIPTION OF BOOK C fol... Buy or find out more →
Like Being A Wife
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
“She finds more ways to be funny than I could count, yet she can cast a light into a dark corner before you know she's done it.” Nick Earls
Daisy is married to her job, Shirley de Young is engaged to Jack but would a... Buy or find out more →
Night Street
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An intensely satisfying novel that celebrates the short richly lived life of Australian artist, Clarice Beckett.
Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
Night Street is the passionate story of a young pain... Buy or find out more →
Utopian Man
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An exquisite historical novel about a remarkable man who chose his own path, charming and scandalising others in equal measure.
Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
'Really impressive, vivid and enjoyab... Buy or find out more →
The Body In The Clouds
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
What if you looked up and out of the corner of your eye you saw something so marvellous, so extraordinary, that it transformed time and space forever? An extraordinary, luminous debut novel that weaves together three liv... Buy or find out more →
Other Stories
$26.95 – Paperback book / Black Pepper
Wayne Macauley’s Other Stories is a much-awaited collection. Here at last Macauley’s peculiar take on the world is gathered together in short stories, satires, fables and anecdotes. Many are set in the hinterland of the ... Buy or find out more →
Dexter Is Delicious
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
Everything's changing for our friendly neighbourhood serial killer. As if getting married wasn't enough to complete his nice-guy persona, Dex is now the proud father of a baby girl. But even if fatherhood is distracting ... Buy or find out more →
Reading Madame Bovary
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Read Amanda Lohrey's guest blog post about Reading Madame Bovary.
From one of Australia’s leading short-fiction writers comes a thrilling collection of stories that deal with transition and transformation.
A woman fin... Buy or find out more →
Last Night At Chateau Marmont
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Heartbreak, headlines and Hermes - welcome to Brooke′s new world...
Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York - she′s the breadwinner working two jobs and he′s the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is disc... Buy or find out more →
The Accident
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
On the autobahn in Vienna a taxi leaves the carriageway and strikes the crash barrier, flinging its male and female passengers out of its back doors as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost cont... Buy or find out more →
Wildflower Hill
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
In 1920s Glasgow, Beattie Blaxland falls pregnant to her married lover Henry just before her nineteenth birthday. Abandoned by her family, Beattie and Henry set sail for a new life in Australia. But life is not about to ... Buy or find out more →
Eleven
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Xavier Ireland is a radio DJ who by night listens to the hopes, fears and regrets of sleepless Londoners and by day keeps himself very much to himself - until he is brought into the light by a one-of-a-kind cleaning lady... Buy or find out more →
Super Sad True Love Story
$29.99 – Paperback book / Granta
The brilliantly inventive, wildly funny and humane new novel, set in an economically and politically collapsed America, by the author of the bestselling Absurdistan.
In a very near future a functionally illiterate Americ... Buy or find out more →
Homecoming
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Eleanor Levine left Ireland seventy years ago with little more than a suitcase and her mother′s handwritten recipe book. Now, a lifetime later, she′s returning from New York with hard won wisdom and memories of her own. ... Buy or find out more →
The Charming Quirks Of Others: The Sunday Philosophy Club Book Seven
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and curious observer of the behaviour of her fellow man, is approached by a friend at a local boarding school that is planning to appoint a new headmaster; an anonymous letter has ... Buy or find out more →
All The Hopeful Lovers
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Quercus
A stylish romantic comedy from the BAFTA winning screenwriter of Shadowlands. Belinda, just fifty, wistfully reflects how much better she is at sex now than when she was young and gorgeous, and then discovers to her fury... Buy or find out more →
Union Atlantic
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
The Bonfire of the Vanities for 2010! A powerful, deeply involving novel of the modern world - a world in crisis, where individual humanity is pitted against the global marketplace.
Doug Fanning lives an apparently gilde... Buy or find out more →
Lunatic In My Head
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Brass Monkey
Set against the backdrop of a small hill town called Shillong in Indias northeast, Lunatic in my Head is a beautifully lyrical novel about three lives in limbo.
Eight-year-old Sophie Das has decided she is adopted. What ... Buy or find out more →
Campaign Ruby
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
When she gets the email announcing her redundancy, Ruby Stanhope hopes to maintain the composure expected of your average London investment banker.
Instead, the next day’s hangover brings two unfortunate discoveries. Fir... Buy or find out more →
Mockingjay: The Hunger Games Book Three
$18.99 – Paperback book / Scholastic
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge...This thrilling fin... Buy or find out more →
I Curse The River Of Time
$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses.
It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce. At the same time, ... Buy or find out more →
Anthropology Of An American Girl
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A brilliant exploration of the sexual and intellectual awakening of a young American woman struggling to remain true to herelf as she encounters love, passion, and death amid the challenges and heartbreaks of growing up.... Buy or find out more →
Comrades
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Romeo and Juliet amidst university campus politics
Sydney University is Australia's pre-eminent finishing school for politicians, and its Students' Representative Council is the nursery where generations of future leader... Buy or find out more →
My Sister Chaos
$24.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
You will not elude me. I will measure your every dimension, I will trace your smallest lines. I will undo you from the inside. You will feel it like waves running across your floorboards, you will feel it like water risi... Buy or find out more →
The Red Queen
$36.00 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Continuing the tumultuous story of The Cousins War, Philippa tells the tale of a young mother's determined ambition for her son - soon to Henry VII
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins War, bri... Buy or find out more →
American Subversive
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
As the twenty-first century enters its second decade, foreign wars, the lingering recession and a caustic political environment are taking their toll on Americans. But the party hasn't ended for Aidan Cole and his friend... Buy or find out more →
Room
$32.95$22.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world
Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too.... Buy or find out more →
Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Based on true events, Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls recreates one of the 20th century's great untold stories.
Cuba, 1959: In the final year of his life, Errol Flynn found time for one last adventure. The dashing... Buy or find out more →
Repeat It Today With Tears
$27.99 – Paperback book / Serpents Tail
A transgressive love story by a singular new voice.
A secretive child by nature, Susanna makes a covert list of everything she knows about her absent father, determined that one day she will find him. Unable and unwillin... Buy or find out more →
The Appointment
$21.99 – Paperback book / Portobello
The winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.'
So begins one day in the life of a young clothing factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questione... Buy or find out more →
Savages
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
A brilliant thriller that pits young, independent marijuana kingpins against a Mexican cartel
Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run an independent Laguna Beach-based mariju... Buy or find out more →
Ethan Grout
$32.95$0.00 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
Ethan Grout realises it's his 27th birthday when he receives a card from the fitness centre he recently quit along with the only job he had ever held. His father's life (and recent funeral) had featured a large cast: but... Buy or find out more →
Equator
$27.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
The year is 1947 – Carlos slips over the orphanage wall in search of the village girl who has captured his heart.
From that moment, his is a life at sea, a life that moves across the globe and across generations, lived... Buy or find out more →
Our Tragic Universe
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Canongate
If Kelsey Newman’s theory about the end of the time is true, we are all going to live forever. But for Meg—locked in a dead-end relationship and with a deadline looming for a book that she can’t write—this thought fills ... Buy or find out more →
Matterhorn
$32.99$24.95 – Trade paperback / Corvus
Thirty years in the making, a powerful, visceral war novel that conveys the terror and immediacy of combat with rare authenticity.
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of No... Buy or find out more →
The Botticelli Secret
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli in a rip-roaring novel that blends enticing mystery, historical intrigue and roman... Buy or find out more →
In The Company Of Angels
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Both a quietly devastating masterpiece and a luminous love story; set in Copenhagen, this is a novel about passion and healing in the wake of loss.
How much of a survivor, in fact, survives? How much must remain of a sur... Buy or find out more →
The Mary Smokes Boys
$29.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
Grey’s mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and the tragedy haunts his life in the small town of Mary Smokes. Grey prays that his mother will be returned to him in some form, so he might protect her from the worl... Buy or find out more →
In Office Hours
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Fig Tree
A masterclass in office love . . .
Stella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work for Atlantic Energy, a global oil company in London. Bella is a pretty single mother who dropped out of college and is doomed to work as an invi... Buy or find out more →
The Changeling
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Atlantic Books
From Nobel prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe, The Changeling is an ambitious, sweeping novel about friendship and the distances we are prepared to travel to preserve it.
Kogito is a writer, and is in his sixties when he rekindle... Buy or find out more →
Holy Water
$10.00 – Paperback book / Uwap
Henry Tuhoe works for a multinational conglomerate that’s begun to outsource everything it can to third world countries. His beautiful wife no longer lets him touch her, even though she demanded he get a vasectomy; and h... Buy or find out more →
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love
$15.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
A jilted lover skirts the edges of time and place as she walks the streets of London at night; a woman returns to the scene of her honeymoon without her husband; a bereft daughter traces her relationship with her mother ... Buy or find out more →
Spies Of The Balkans
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
This book marks a departure of sorts for Alan Furst - moving from the salons of Western and Central Europe to the altogether more unstable terrain of the Balkans - an area yet to be explored in his fiction. In other resp... Buy or find out more →
Death Most Definite: The Death Works Series Book One
$19.99 – Paperback book / Orbit
Steve knew something was wrong as soon as he saw the dead girl in the Wintergarden food court. Nothing new, he saw dead people all the time, but this one was about to save his life... Steve is a necromancer in the family... Buy or find out more →
Saraswati Park
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
Feted for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such enclave, Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer -- the last of a dying profession -- sits under a banyan tree in Fort, furnishin... Buy or find out more →
The Genesis Flaw
$10.00 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
He kicked the leather chair away and instantly the rope snapped tight. His lungs burned and the veins in his face felt close to bursting. His brown eyes bulged as if in surprise. Which, of course, it wasn't. He had to di... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Cosmicomics
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you the most joyful reading experience of your life' Salman Rushdie
The Cosmicomics tell the story of the history of the universe, from the big bang, through millennia... Buy or find out more →
Family Album
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'Ridiculously readable. Lively displays an economy and elegance that put younger writers to shame' Sunday Telegraph
Allersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra, di... Buy or find out more →
The Delta
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
After a failed assassination attempt on the president of Zimbabwe, ex-soldier turned mercenary Sonja Kurtz is on the run and heads for her only place of refuge, the Okavango Delta in the heart of Botswana. She's looking ... Buy or find out more →
The Great Perhaps
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
Meno ('Hairstyles of the Damned') continues to employ his keen observations of human nature, this time exploring the tumultuous landscapes of a contemporary Chicago family.
The narrative rotates between members of the Ca... Buy or find out more →
The Vintage And The Gleaning
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
The Vintage and the Gleaning is set in a winemaking town in the north-east of Victoria, close to the Murray River. Smithy is a retired shearer turned vineyard worker who has recently been forced to give up drinking after... Buy or find out more →
Traitor
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that shoul... Buy or find out more →
The News Where You Are
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Set in Birmingham, The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances: the mysterious hit and run th... Buy or find out more →
Rocks In The Belly
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
How far can you push a child before he snaps?
Rocks in the Belly is about a precocious eight-year-old boy and the volatile adult he becomes. During childhood his mother fosters boys despite the jealous turmoil it arouses... Buy or find out more →
The Good Daughter
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Rebecca Toyer and Zach Kincaid eachlive on the outskirts of town, but come from very different sides of the tracks. When Zach's wealthy mother goes missing, Rebecca – the truckie's daughter – is implicated in her disappe... Buy or find out more →
The Fortunes Of Ruby White
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Ruby White has burnt her bridges. She has no job, no direction in life, and just enough money to last a month. if she eats only rice and her cat catches his own meals. When her best friend, Anise, holds a dress-up party,... Buy or find out more →
After America
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Our world went to hell on March 14, 2003.
Four years after an inexplicable wave of energy decimated the American mainland, and then just as inexplicably disappeared a year later, US President James Kipper is no closer to... Buy or find out more →
Animal Kingdom (Film Tie-In)
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Everything sits in the order somewhere.
Things survive because they're strong and everything reaches an understanding.
But not everything survives because it's strong.
Some creatures are weak.
Armed robber Pope Cody is o... Buy or find out more →
The Radleys
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
On a leafy street in the quiet British village of Bishopthorpe lives an ordinary and dysfunctional but happy family. Peter Radley is the village doctor, and his wife Helen is a member of the local book club. Their childr... Buy or find out more →
The Fable Of All Our Lives
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Who are your heroes?
At the age of thirty, things are looking up for Tait. Freed after ten years of confinement, he has gained a literary grant and is eager to find a home and to succeed in his work.
As he settles in an ... Buy or find out more →
And This Is True
$32.95$27.95 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
'I kissed my father once, when he was sleeping.'
Nevis Gow is fifteen. For eleven years he has lived in a van with his father Marshall, travelling the country. They don't need people or school or jobs. All they need is e... Buy or find out more →
Inheritance
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
What would you do if you suddenly inherited £17,000,000? An entertaining and poignant story of betrayal and redemption from one of our most-respected writers.
Andy Larkham is late. He is due at the funeral of his favour... Buy or find out more →
Private Life
$33.00$12.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
A stunning novel which traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life from the 1880s to World War II.
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early.... Buy or find out more →
Kraken
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre.
Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime... Buy or find out more →
Ilustrado
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Winner of the Man Asia prize.
ILUSTRADO opens with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River. His young acolyte, Miguel, sets out to investigate the author’s suspicious death and the strange ... Buy or find out more →
Sex and Stravinsky
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
From the bestselling author of Brother Of The More Famous Jack: it's 1995 and a mix of people from different parts of the globe - from Australia to South Africa, Senegal to Milan - are linked by their past.
The time is 1... Buy or find out more →
Spooner
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
A riotous and dazzling comic story of resilience and love, from the author of the US National Book Award winner, Paris Trout.
Warren Spooner is born in rural Georgia, on the first Sunday of December 1956, after a prolong... Buy or find out more →
Milk Fever
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
Julia Heath is experiencing a tree-change nightmare; a dismal country town with no decent coffee, a yoga teacher husband who ishaving an affair with the butcher's wife and slowly sending them bankrupt, a mother-in-law co... Buy or find out more →
If I Loved You I Would Tell You This
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This explores life’s rich silences in relationships both acknowledged and covert, and in the unspoken, often treacherous dynamics of families. Written with maturity and insight, these sto... Buy or find out more →
The Passage
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Orion
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise o... Buy or find out more →
Menagerie Of False Truths
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Exisle Publications
Beautifully crafted, this story from one of Australia's finest writers will remain with you long after the final chapter.
‘...If I have misled you, it’s been more through matters of omission than outright lies.’
Ch... Buy or find out more →
Light Boxes
$19.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton
February is persecuting the townspeople. It has been winter for more than three hundred days. All forms of flight are banned and the children have started to disappear, taken from their beds in the middle of the night. T... Buy or find out more →
Known Unknowns
$24.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
Emmett Stinson is an American who moved to Australia in 2004 – and it was only with distance from his homeland that he could write Known Unknowns, his debut collection. Set largely in Washington DC immediately after Sept... Buy or find out more →
Dead in the Family: The Southern Vampire Mysteries #10
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Victor Gollancz
The Southern Vampire Mysteries #10.
If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven't seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of ... Buy or find out more →
The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob de Zoet
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress s... Buy or find out more →
Tony And Susan
$29.99$5.00 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
Tony and Susan is a lost masterpiece of American fiction: a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel of reading and writing, fear and regret, blood and revenge...
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Shef... Buy or find out more →
Singularity
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Random House Nz
Charlotte Grimshaw's collection of interlinked stories, Opportunity, was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Prize, and won New Zealand's premier award for fiction, the 2008 Montana Book Award. She has ... Buy or find out more →
Roddy Parr
$32.99$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
A witty, seductive and moving novel of a famous writer and his protégé
Roddy Parr takes us into the luminous circle of a literary giant. It is a world of family intrigues, importunate fans -- and dark secrets. Roddy Pa... Buy or find out more →
The Pleasure Seekers
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Zadie Smith meets Rohinton Mistry in this sparkling debut about family, belonging and the binding power of love.
It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became the first member of t... Buy or find out more →
New And Rediscovered
$29.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
For the first time New and Rediscovered makes available some of Vicki Viidikas’ previously unpublished writing and drawings alongside a comprehensive selection of her previously published poetry and prose. A ravishing co... Buy or find out more →
Imperial Bedrooms
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
Twenty-five years on from Less Than Zero, we pick up again with Clay.
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with Less Than Zero, his "extraordinarily accomplished first novel" (New Yorker), successful... Buy or find out more →
Speak To Me
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Michael, a psychiatrist, is trying to put his life together after a brain tumour. His lawyer wife Elizabeth is wrestling with her new role as carer and breadwinner. Their teenage children are acting out the chaos their p... Buy or find out more →
Imperfect Birds
$24.95 – Paperback book / Uwap
Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She’s intelligent; athletic—a former state-ranked tennis doubles champion; and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her ... Buy or find out more →
Girl In Translation
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Fig Tree
Kimberly Chang has her world turned upside-down when she moves with her mother from their home in Hong Kong to New York. But their new life doesn't quite live up to their expectations - living in a vermin-ridden apartmen... Buy or find out more →
Making News
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
'The photo was clearly sexual, all skin and limbs. It was a CCTV image, which looked to be from security footage. Lucas leaned forward to read the accompanying paragraph. Within half a sentence it was as though a foot ha... Buy or find out more →
Mosquito Creek
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Huge floodwaters have engulfed a remote Victorian goldfield, reducing the prospect of digging up a fortune from very slim to impossible, and adding disease to the many possibilities of sudden death in harsh conditions. A... Buy or find out more →
The Terrible Privacy Of Maxwell Sim
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in ... Buy or find out more →
Android Karenina
$24.94 – Paperback book / Quirk
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina — an enhanced edition of the classic love s... Buy or find out more →
The Pindar Diamond
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
The stunning new historical novel from the author of The Aviary Gate.
Venice, 1604.
When rumours of a spectacularly rare and priceless diamond begin to
circulate amongst the gamblers and courtesans of the Venetian
demi-m... Buy or find out more →
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling By Peter Ackroyd
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
The Canterbury Tales is a major part of England's literary heritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century Lo... Buy or find out more →
Tiger Hills
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
The year is 1878. As the first girl to be born to the Nachimandas in over sixty years, beautiful, spirited Devi is adored by her entire family. She befriends Devanna, a gifted young boy whose mother has died in tragic ci... Buy or find out more →
The Breaking Of Eggs
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Separated from his family as a child when the Nazis invaded Poland, Feliks has spent his life producing a travel guide to Iron Curtain countries for Western readers. However, following the collapse of Communism in 1989 a... Buy or find out more →
The Dead Fish Museum
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
How was I supposed to know that any mention of suicide to the phalanx of doctors making Friday rounds would warrant the loss of not only weekend-pass privileges but also the liberty to take a leak in private?
In The Dead... Buy or find out more →
Freeing Grace
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
When you're faced with the most difficult choice you've ever known ... an absolutely compelling novel of finding love, home and family.
Warm, insightful and poignant, Freeing Grace tells the story of David, curate of an ... Buy or find out more →
Kindling
$24.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Nate Monk is Kieran's father. He's a single parent of a 'differently wired' child, a talented musician who once stood on the cusp of success and a man resigned to a pragmatic life of responsibility over opportunity. Both... Buy or find out more →
Midnight In A Perfect Life
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Karl is a troubled writer standing on the precipice of forty. After a degree of success in his early career he is now battling with what he terms his 'opus', his legacy to the world. But his partner Lori, the main breadw... Buy or find out more →
Houdini's Flight
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
To escape takes a special kind of magic.
Terry Voulos is struggling. His marriage, his relationship with his son and his work prospects are shaky. He finds solace in the possibility of a new career as a magician, before ... Buy or find out more →
The Truth About Love
$24.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
It's dangerous . . . and that's the truth about love . . . A young man shields his terrible wounds from his mother; a husband believes he can love his grief-stricken wife back to life; a young girl puts her own life on h... Buy or find out more →
The Life And Opinions Of Maf The Dog And Of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
$15.00 – Trade paperback / Faber
A unique, fascinating fictional peek into one of the most extraordinary periods of the twentieth century, from the vantage point of Maf, the dog given to Marilyn Monroe by Frank Sinatra.
In November 1960, Frank Sinatra g... Buy or find out more →
Privileges
$24.99 – Trade paperback / Corsair
A lyrical novel about the ways wealth can change and fortify a family over time, forcing them to re-examine what really matters. Buy or find out more →
Blueeyedboy
$32.95$0.00 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
A gripping psychological thriller played out in cyberspace, from the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Lollipop Shoes.
'Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was t... Buy or find out more →
The Rapture
$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
An environmental disaster movie of a thriller, from the celebrated author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax.
In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to ... Buy or find out more →
Men Of Bad Character
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Do you ever really know the man you love?
When Rose's eighteen-year relationship ends in the most shocking and unexpected way, she emerges from years of what she thought was a loving relationship and realises the extent ... Buy or find out more →
The Lonely Polygamist
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
From the author of the legendary novel The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, a highly anticipated new novel about the American Family writ large.
Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is havi... Buy or find out more →
Then Came The Evening
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
A riveting, psychologically rich family drama set in the American West, from a writer who has been compared to Cormac McCarthy.
Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his cabin reduced to ... Buy or find out more →
The Strange Case Of The Composer And His Judge
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
From the vineyards of Southern France to the gabled houses of Lubeck, through cathedrals, opera houses, museums and the cobbled streets of an Alpine village, this literary thriller is a metaphysical mystery of astonishin... Buy or find out more →
Sustenance
$32.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
In a small hotel on an island renowned for its hospitality and beauty, the Balinese staff and their Western guests are unexpectedly taken hostage. During the overnight siege, the hotel’s cook is compelled by the crisis t... Buy or find out more →
Five Wounds
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Inspired by Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Uncanny X-Men, this surreal, darkly beautiful and unsettling graphic novel about five wounded orphans is by turns hilarious and horrific, gr... Buy or find out more →
The Ask
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
When Milo Burke, a balding, slope-bellied "donations" officer at a minor New York university, has a disastrous run-in with a rich undergraduate, he winds up on the unemployed scrap heap. Grasping at odd jobs to support h... Buy or find out more →
The Crime Of Huey Dunstan
$15.00 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
A young man stands in the dock accused of murder. A brutal murder, apparently motiveless.
When Professor Chesney, a psychologist specialising in trauma, is called as an expert witness, he is at first baffled. This young ... Buy or find out more →
The Importance Of Being Seven: 44 Scotland Street
$34.95$15.00 – Hardcover book / Polygon Press
The story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this sixth instalment alongside the familiar cast of favourites - Big Lou, Domenica, Angus Lordie, Cyril and others - in their daily pursuit of a little happi... Buy or find out more →
Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It
$27.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
A love-struck young ranch hand, an aging Argentine lover, a trusted confidante who isn't a friend and two hitchhikers named Bonnie and Clyde.
Caught between opposing forces—fidelity and desire, impulse and security, inno... Buy or find out more →
Stories: All-New Tales
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
This astonishing collection of all-new tales by some of the most acclaimed writers at work today is called, simply, Stories. Edited by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline) and Al Sarrantonio (... Buy or find out more →
The Memory Of Love
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
A major new novel by acclaimed writer Aminatta Forna: a story about friendship, about understanding, absolution and the indelible effects of the past ... and about the very nature of love.
In an African city, an elderly ... Buy or find out more →
Nowhere Man
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Pantera
...a gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller...
Wealthy stock trader Michael Hunt is a secretive man with a past he's not even shared with Sonya, his university professor wife.
But Sonya is forced to start piecing it togeth... Buy or find out more →
Island Beneath The Sea
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (Inés of My Soul, The House of the... Buy or find out more →
The Grand Hotel
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Strange things are happening at the Grand Hotel.
'A hotel as a work of art in little ol' Mangowak? It was about as unlikely as an indoor creek.'
Robbed of his zest for life by the absurd innovations of his local council,... Buy or find out more →
Monsters Of Men: Chaos Walking Book Three
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books
Winner of the 2011 Carnegie Medal.
The electrifying finale to the multi-award-winning trilogy, Chaos Walking!
'War,' says the Mayor.'At last.'
Three armies have marched on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying ... Buy or find out more →
Little Hands Clapping
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Canongate
The darkest, most twisted novel yet from the author of Timoleon Vieta Come Home.
In a room above a bizarre German museum, and far from the prying eyes of strangers, lives the Old Man. Caretaker of the museum by day, by n... Buy or find out more →
Prague
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Prague featured in The New York Times Notable Fiction list for 2002.
'Its author is prodigiously gifted.... A witty, well-informed intelligence is constantly at play....The writing depends purely on its own flair and inv... Buy or find out more →
The Hand That First Held Mine
$32.99$0.00 – Trade paperback / Headline
A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de force from one of our most acclaimed and best loved novelists. When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Si... Buy or find out more →
This Bleeding City
$29.99 – Paperback book / Faber
A wonderful debut novel, of an innocent swept up in the turmoil of financial and emotional boom and bust in the city.
Charlie Wales left Edinburgh University with dreams of the high-life. Six months later he is marooned ... Buy or find out more →
Hotel Iris
$27.95$23.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
A dark and beautifully written story of a young girl's tragic love triangle with an older man and his young nephew
In a crumbling, sea-side hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk... Buy or find out more →
Book Of Lost Threads
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
In the small town of Opportunity, four mismatched people discover the unexpected power of kindness.
Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and ... Buy or find out more →
Killing Richard Dawson
$24.99 – Paperback book / Pantera
"The phone rings. It’s Jesus. I listen to him speak and then hang up..."
In this darkly comic, slow-burn thriller, reality is blurred… nothing can be taken for granted.
A gripping and poignant black comedy about love... Buy or find out more →
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
$24.99 – Paperback book / Arena
From the creator of the international bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes the untold (vampire-hunting) history of the Great US Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.
Through the extraordinary discovery of Abraham Lin... Buy or find out more →
The Beast Of The Camargue
$24.95 – Paperback book / Quercus
For centuries the ceremonial order of the Knights of the Tarasque have met to bear the effigy of a mythical beast through the Provencal town of Taracson. But one summer's night the ceremony is broken by a gruesome discov... Buy or find out more →
36 Arguments For The Existence Of God: A Work Of Fiction
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
A big, brash, clever novel, alternately hilarious, heartbreaking and captivating. It has taken the pulse of our time, and given it a brilliant plot and memorable characters, arguing and living the great irresolvable conf... Buy or find out more →
I Think I Love You
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
Wildly witty, clever and touching, with a gorgeous and compelling twist, I THINK I LOVE YOU asks what happens when the man you thought you loved turns out to be somebody else entirely...In her bestselling debut, I Don't ... Buy or find out more →
Leaving Suzie Pye
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
′Rips along with verve and confidence ... Funny, energetic and full of life′ Helen Garner
He knows what he wants . . .just not how to get it
Everyone at work wants to know why an associate professor of philosophy wou... Buy or find out more →
The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A comprehensive selection of stories including five stories never before collected.
Written over four decades and including all of her best stories, this new selection illustrates Janet Frame’s dazzling versatility. Her ... Buy or find out more →
The Castle In The Pyrenees
$29.95$12.95 – Hardcover book / Orion
Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wo... Buy or find out more →
Desert
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English.
Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour's tribe - the Blue Men - ... Buy or find out more →
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
$23.95 – Hardcover book / Text Publishing
In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman reimagines the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and great power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Ch... Buy or find out more →
The Carrie Diaries
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Before Carrie Bradshaw became the queen of the New York City social scene, she was a regular girl growing up in the suburbs of Connecticut. How did she turn into one of the most-read social observers of our generation?
T... Buy or find out more →
The Lessons
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess a key to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-f... Buy or find out more →
The Vulture
$23.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
Digging the rhythms of the street, where the biggest deal life has to offer is getting high, The Vulture is a hip and fast-moving thriller. It relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage boy called John Lee—tell... Buy or find out more →
Match Fixer
$19.95 – Paperback book / Marshall Cavendish
Match fixing is destroying The Beautiful Game in Asia, and corruption has spread its tentacles into 'squeaky-clean' Singapore. Feeding off the insatiable gambling habits of the local population, illegal football betting ... Buy or find out more →
The Dog Who Came In From The Cold: Corduroy Mansions Book Two
$39.95$13.00 – Hardcover book / Polygon Press
Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has ‘moved house’ to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico – Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of... Buy or find out more →
The Tulip Virus
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
The murder of a wealthy financier in modern-day London sets Alec, the man's nephew, on a desperate race for the truth that leads back to the death of a respected tulip trader in 17th Century Holland. A major new literary... Buy or find out more →
The Best Of Rudyard Kipling
$15.00 – Hardcover book / Crows Nest
Kipling's three most famous stories - both Jungle Books and Kim - all together in one great value volume.
There can be few people who have not heard of Rudyard Kipling's classic Jungle Book, although most will know the n... Buy or find out more →