Readings Recommends: Fiction
Zone One
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
The most chilling, witty and downright beautifully written Zombie novel you'll ever read.
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into t... Buy or find out more →
Micro
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Three men are found dead in the locked second floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed ro... Buy or find out more →
Stone Arabia
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Denise and Nik grew up in the ’70s LA music scene. Nik—handsome and gifted, with a knack for songwriting—was a star on the rise. Denise, his sister, was his biggest fan. Now, fleeting success long behind him, Nik makes h... Buy or find out more →
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (Film Tie-In)
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.... Buy or find out more →
When She Woke
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Hannah Payne′s life has been devoted to church and family, but after her arrest, she awakens to a nightmare: she is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move ... Buy or find out more →
The Tragedy Of Arthur
$35.00 – Hard back / Duckworth
Duckworth are proud to present this first modern edition of The Tragedy of Arthur by William Shakespeare.
The long-lost play surfaces in Phillips's new novel, a sublime faux memoir framed as the introduction to the play'... Buy or find out more →
An Honourable Man
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Virago
A big and important Victorian novel set in London and the Sudan from a major international writer.
From one of Britain's most important writers, An Honourable Man is set in the tumultuous world of late Victorian England.... Buy or find out more →
Jane Austen Made Me Do It
$21.95 – Paperback book / Random House
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The Beautiful Indifference
$29.99 – Paperback book / Faber & Faber
From the heathered fells and lowlands of Cumbria with their history of smouldering violence, to the speed and heat of summer London, to an eerily still lake in the Finnish wilderness, Sarah Hall evokes landscapes with ex... Buy or find out more →
Domestic Violets
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In the vein of Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta comes DOMESTIC VIOLETS, Matthew Norman's darkly comic family drama about love, loss, and ambition.
Review: "Reminiscent of Richard Russo's earlier work, Norman's refreshin... Buy or find out more →
We Bought A Zoo (Film Tie-In)
$19.99 – Paperback book /
In the market for a house and the adventure of a lifetime, Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo on the English countryside, complete with over 200 exotic anim... Buy or find out more →
The Thread
$29.99 – Trade paperback /
The enthralling new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND and THE RETURN.
Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city, where Christians, J... Buy or find out more →
Summer
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Sphere
An engrossing portrait of an extraordinary summer on a remote farm endured by two recently orphaned children - a stunning novel by a real talent.
When Grace Hooper, on the verge of womanhood, and her nine year-old brothe... Buy or find out more →
Antwerp
$24.99 – Hard back / Macmillan
Antwerp is Bolano intensified and distilled. As his friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarria, once suggested, it can be viewed as the Big Bang of his fictional universe. It is the birth of Bolano's enterprise in ... Buy or find out more →
The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Dog Books Kids
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together.
SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - and fast - to keep her café and customers safe…... Buy or find out more →
The Transformation Of Bartholomew Fortuno
$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
A sumptuous period story with the most wondrously vibrant cast of characters – this tale of secrets, friendship and forbidden love will leave you enchanted.
In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln's a... Buy or find out more →
The Breakers
$22.99 – Paperback book / Maclehose Press
In the storm-swept landscapes of Normandy's coastline lies a village that might just be at the ends of the earth. A woman has recently arrived to seek healing for some deep sorrow, and spends her days cataloguing migrato... Buy or find out more →
Down The Rabbit Hole
$21.95 – Paperback book / And Other Stories
Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child ... Buy or find out more →
The Facility
$21.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry fin... Buy or find out more →
Exile
$32.99 – Paperback book / Maclehose Press
Despite the tough discipline, the students at the International School in Moshi are free to run wild. For this motley cohort of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans, it's all about getting high, getti... Buy or find out more →
Ours Are The Streets
$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time, to bury his father on his family's land near Lahore, he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that leads to the mountains of Kashmir and Afghanistan.
On... Buy or find out more →
For Love Alone
$25.00 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, For Love Alone is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent, ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of love. She attempts to engage the feelings of the unworthy ... Buy or find out more →
The Wine Of Solitude
$29.95 – Paperback book / Chatto & Windus
Introspective, intense and poignant, this is the story of an upbringing that produces a young woman destined to inflict terrible revenge on her mother. It is available in English for the first time. Irène Némirovsky is t... Buy or find out more →
The Angel Esmeralda
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Picador
The stories here, collected from all five decades of DeLillo's career, show an acknowledged master of the novel in complete command of the short form. In The Angel Esmeralda, DeLillo finds the freedom to represent the wi... Buy or find out more →
In Red
$23.95 – Paperback book / Archipelago Press
(Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston)
In this latest groundbreaking novel, Magdalena Tulli creates a world that is unreal, yet strangely familiar and utterly convincing. Set in a mythical fourth partition of Pola... Buy or find out more →
Explosive Eighteen
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
The exciting new installment in the adventures of Stephanie Plum - it's gonna be dynamite!
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is used to danger and adventure; they follow her at every turn. But when international murder hits d... Buy or find out more →
The Lost Daughter
$32.99 – Paperback book / Mantle
A compelling new mystery from the author of The Villa Triste
Her past. Pallioti tapped the files. This, he said, is how you'll find her.
In Florence, a young American student goes missing. At first neither Alessandro Pal... Buy or find out more →
Lucky Bunny
$29.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
Crime is a man's business, so they say, though not according to Queenie Dove. A self-proclaimed genius when it comes to thieving and escape, she reckons she's done pretty well. Yes, she had a tough childhood in London's ... Buy or find out more →
Solace
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
Mark Casey has left home, the rural community where his family has farmed for generations, to study for a doctorate in Dublin, a vibrant, contemporary city full of possibility. To his father, Tom, who needs help baling t... Buy or find out more →
What It Is Like To Go To War
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
What It Is Like To Go To War reveals the blistering true story behind Marlante's Matterhorn, delving deep into the author's life-changing experiences in Vietnam.
'I wrote this book primarily to come to terms with my own ... Buy or find out more →
The Language Of Flowers
$32.99$27.95 – Paperback book / Picador
In The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh's powerful first novel, a damaged young woman, Victoria Jones, who can only communicate through the Victorian language of flowers, goes from being homeless to a sought afte... Buy or find out more →
1Q84
$39.95$32.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
The Australian edition, exceeding 900 pages, comprises all three volumes of the book (which were published in Japan and the UK as separate books).
Read an early review of 1Q84 by friend of Readings and Melbournian Louis ... Buy or find out more →
The Map And The Territory
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
If Jed Martin, the main character of this novel, was to tell you its story, he would perhaps begin by talking about a boiler breaking down, one 15th December. Or about his father, a well-known and committed architect, wi... Buy or find out more →
The Cat's Table
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England – a ‘castle that was to cross the sea’. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly ‘Cat's Table’ with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two ... Buy or find out more →
The Night Circus
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, the Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves ... Buy or find out more →
The Dovekeepers
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Over five years in the writing,
The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel.
In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for mont... Buy or find out more →
Nightwoods
$32.95$27.95 – Paperback book / Hachette
The new novel by the bestselling author of the classic Cold Mountain is a beautifully written, atmospheric novel of love and suspense.
Luce is a solitary young woman, caretaker of an old lodge on the edge of a lake in th... Buy or find out more →
Breaking Away
$16.95 – Paperback book / Gallic Books
Translated by Alison Anderson
I hadn't even sat down yet, one buttock still hovering, my hand on the car door, and already my sister-in-law was on the attack:
"At last! Didn't you hear the horn? We've been waiting here f... Buy or find out more →
Landfall
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Fig Tree
Alice Robinson is having doubts about her job on a fashionable London art magazine. Agreeing to house sit for her parents, she moves back to the suburban streets of her childhood, a world of Girl Guides, Tudorbethan hous... Buy or find out more →
The Seamstress
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
The runaway bestseller that has taken the world by storm
1935: As turmoil brews in Europe, Sira Quiroga's carefully mapped-out life is thrown into chaos, first by love, then betrayal. Abandoned and alone, all she has are... Buy or find out more →
On Canaan's Side
$29.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Faber & Faber
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel, spanning one woman Lilly Bere's lifetime, lived between Ireland and America. On Cannaan's side has already made the 2... Buy or find out more →
An Object Of Beauty
$19.99 – Paperback book / Orion
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 →
A Visit From The Goon Squad
$19.99 – Paperback book / Constable & Co Ltd
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 →
Peake's Progress: Selected Writings And Drawings Of Mervyn Peake
$49.95 – Hardcover book / British Library
Peake's Progress is a selection of Mervyn Peake's work, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood, and a generous selectio... Buy or find out more →
The Marriage Plot
$29.95$26.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn′t get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. Madeleine was the girl who dr... Buy or find out more →
The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Vintage
Enter the world of Gormenghast. The vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this Gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, cloisters and corridors... Buy or find out more →
Girl In A Green Gown
$39.95$29.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
The Arnolfini portrait, painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, is one of the world's most famous paintings. It intrigues all who see it. Scholars and the public alike have puzzled over the meaning of this haunting gem of medie... Buy or find out more →
Smut
$19.99 – Paperback book / Headline
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The Memory Of Love
$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
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 ver... Buy or find out more →
Perlman's Silence
$29.95 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books Uk
A huge internaonal success and a favourite with booksellers and critics, Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon was one of the bestselling literary European novels in recent years. Perlmann’s Silence delivers a deep psyc... Buy or find out more →
Shelter
$29.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
A spellbinding and wise coming-of-age story from Canada's 'New Face of Fiction', Shelter draws readers into the precarious world of two young sisters in search of their mother, and brings to life a breathtaking Canadian ... Buy or find out more →
Waiting For Robert Capa
$19.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
Love, war and photography marked their lives. They were young, anti-Fascist, good-looking, and nonconformist. They had everything in life, and they put everything at risk. They created their own legend and remained faith... Buy or find out more →
The Prague Cemetery
$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
An inspired twisting of history and fiction by the critically celebrated, best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum.
Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the gh... Buy or find out more →
The Freudian Slip
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
Sydney, 1963. Three young women are taking on the world of advertising. Don Draper wouldn't stand a chance. And Marion knows ... she was there!
Early sixties in Sydney. Women wear princess-line dresses, edge-to-edge dust... Buy or find out more →
The Pale King
$39.95$19.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
David Foster Wallace's last and most ambitious undertaking
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly-arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses h... Buy or find out more →
Forecast Turbulence
$22.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
The turbulent river rushes on.
′Everything flows,′ wrote Heraclitus, ′and nothing stays fixed.′
FORECAST TURBULENCE is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece ... Buy or find out more →
Obedience
$29.99 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
In this shattering novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Jacqueline Yallop has spun a story of collaboration, betrayal, illicit love, faith and aching desire.
In a convent in rural France, only three ageing nuns remain. Clo... Buy or find out more →
The Sense Of An Ending
$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumo... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Fielding
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people ar... Buy or find out more →
The Year Of The Hare
$22.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The international bestseller. A novel of one man’s existential journey away from his life and in to the wild. With a hare.
Vatanen is a journalist in Finland. The car he is riding in accidentally hits a young wild hare... Buy or find out more →
The Fear Index
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Hutchinson
A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance
Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and highly ... Buy or find out more →
The Tiger's Wife
$29.99$24.95 – Trade paperback / Orion
Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.
'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years.' - Colum McCann (and she's only 24!).
As Natalia and a friend travel across the former Yugoslavia, immunising vi... Buy or find out more →
The Next Always
$29.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
The historic hotel in Boonsboro has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. Beckett is the architect of th... Buy or find out more →
The Stranger's Child
$32.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize and now longlitsed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
It is the late summer of the last year before the first Great War. Cecil Val... Buy or find out more →
The House Of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Orion
The first official new Sherlock Holmes mystery, written by global bestseller Anthony Horowitz.
Bestselling novelist and Holmes expert Anthony Horowitz will bring the great man to life again for a new generation of reader... Buy or find out more →
The Sickness
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Maclehose Press
Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own ... Buy or find out more →
Our Lady Of Alice Bhatti
$32.95 – Paperback book / Jonathan Cape
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments are looking for a miracle, and Alice Bhatti is looking for a job.
The story begins with Alice’s interview for the position of junior nurse, grade 4. Alice is no ... Buy or find out more →
The Book Of Human Skin
$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
The book of human skin is a large volume with many pages of villainy writ upon it. There are people who are a disease, you know.
13 May, 1784, Venice: Minguillo Fasan, heir to the decaying, gothic Palazzo Espagnol, is bo... Buy or find out more →
The Real Katie Lavender
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
A secret that changed everything...
Katie Lavender has always thought she was pretty unshockable, until a year after her mother's death she receives a letter from a solicitor telling her that the man she thought was her ... Buy or find out more →
Dollhouse: A Novel
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The Kardashian sisters live life in the fast lane. Reality TV stars and fashion icons, Kourtney, Khloé and Kim are no strangers to Hollywood drama: from unexpected pregnancies and quickie weddings to troubled relationshi... Buy or find out more →
The Auschwitz Violin
$17.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Translated by Martha Tennent.
An international sensation, The Auschwitz Violin is the unforgettable story of one man’s refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history’s greatest atrocity.
In the winter of 199... Buy or find out more →
The Best Of Me
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Sphere
They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks ? with a passion that would change their lives for ever. But life would force them apart. Years later, the lines they had drawn between past and present are... Buy or find out more →
The Artist Of Disappearance
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Vintage
A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai’s exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the pas... Buy or find out more →
To Be Sung Underwater
$29.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that "picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio." Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of hono... Buy or find out more →
Inherited
$26.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
A dancer in a wheelchair. A collector of corks. One woman seduced by a mountain and another by Freddo Frogs. A man who hears his dead wife's voice. A poet whose voice has disappeared. A photographer distilling grief in h... Buy or find out more →
Oil On Water
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
'A lean, evocative novel - part thriller, part meditation on the deadly cost of the region's oil politics. A classic coming-of-age narrative' Daily Mail
From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruite... Buy or find out more →
Praetorian
$29.99 – Paperback book / Headline
The eleventh novel in the Roman series from much-loved author Simon Scarrow.
The city of Rome in AD 50 is a dangerous place. Treachery lurks on every corner, and a shadowy Republican movement, 'the Liberators', has sprea... Buy or find out more →
Lettah's Gift
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Step into the heart of modern-day Africa in this compelling story of hope and redemption.
Failed writer Frank Cole can barely remember Lettah. When his family left Zimbabwe, their beloved servant was gradually forgotten.... Buy or find out more →
Conqueror
$32.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A scholar who conquered an empire larger than those of Alexander or Caesar.
A warrior who would rule a fifth of the world with strength and wisdom.
A man who betrayed a brother to protect a nation.
From a young scholar t... Buy or find out more →
I Don't Know How She Does It (Film Tie-In)
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A victim of time famine, thirty-five-year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. As she runs between appointments, through her head spools the crazy tape-loop of every high-flying mother's life: client ... Buy or find out more →
Hotel Vendome
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Hugues Martin has worked for the world’s most prestigious hotels, so when he takes over a small, tired, run-down hotel in New York, everyone thinks he must be mad. But he transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of ... Buy or find out more →
The Trader's Wife
$32.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
By the author of FAREWELL TO LANCASHIRE and BEYOND THE SUNSET comes the continuation of the Swan River Saga, for fans of Catherine Cookson.
After the death of her mother and her cousin's mysterious disappearance, Isabell... Buy or find out more →
Golden Earrings
$32.99 – Trade paperback /
A powerful saga of family, love, honour and betrayal
You who judge me: come! Let me tell you a story ...
Paloma Batton is the granddaughter of Spanish refugees who fled Barcelona after the Civil War. A disciplined studen... Buy or find out more →
Love Lies Bleeding: A Novel
$21.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
In the vein of Jennifer McMahon’s Promise Not to Tell and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold comes Love Lies Bleeding, a haunting story about the lengths to which people will go to keep their pasts buried. Jess McConkey (a... Buy or find out more →
The Pacific
$32.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
As a war correspondent covering the Second World War, Ilsa Stahl isn't afraid to be on the front line. But when her plane goes down in a terrible storm over Papuan waters and she is taken prisoner by the Japanese, she ha... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Ingredient
$25.00 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
"Taste was such an evocative sense; Andie had closed her eyes, with the scone melting in her mouth, and been transported back to her grandmother's kitchen..."
Nourishment is nurture. That's what Andie learned from her gr... Buy or find out more →
The Kid
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
Fifteen years after the publication of Push, Sapphire gives voice to Abdul Jones, the son of her unforgettable heroine, Precious.
The Kid is an electrifying story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of... Buy or find out more →
With My Body
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The long-awaited follow-up to the international bestselling phenomenon THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE, WITH MY BODY is an intensely personal tale of sexual awakening as well as one wife′s story about every woman′s marriage.... Buy or find out more →
You Deserve Nothing
$29.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Dark, compelling story of an illicit affair between a young teacher and his female student for fans of Donna Tartt.
Set in an international high school in Paris, YOU DESERVE NOTHING is told in three voices: that of Will,... Buy or find out more →
Ragnarok: The End Of The Gods
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Ragnarok is the story of the end of the world. It is a tale of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves. What more relevant myth could any modern writer find?
As the bombs rain down in th... Buy or find out more →
The Outlaw Album
$29.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
From the author of WINTER'S BONE, twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by the 'least known major writer in the country today' Denis Lehane, USA Today. Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny... Buy or find out more →
Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves
$45.00$39.95 – Hardcover book / Pan Macmillan
At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic, the battle to save the world has begun…
THE SECRET BASE
It is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Island. A
long-forgotten relic of the Cold War, it houses a weapon of
terr... Buy or find out more →
Little Star
$32.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Lennart Cederström, embittered ex-pop singer, is foraging for mushrooms when he finds a baby left for dead in a plastic bag. He revives her and is utterly astonished by the sound of her crying: the child’s voice is a cle... Buy or find out more →
Daniel Stein, Interpreter: A Novel
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
‘This world in which we have so much difficulty living is filled with misunderstanding at every level.’
What can one man do, faced with such a world? Daniel Stein, Interpreter explores the lives of those affected by ... Buy or find out more →
The Ugly Sister
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Beauty can be a blessing.
Or a curse.
As Abi would the first to know. She has spent her life in the shadow of her stunningly beautiful, glamorous older sister Cleo.
Headhunted as model when she was sixteen, Cleo has been... Buy or find out more →
Milkman In The Night
$27.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
A new masterpiece from the author of the cult classic Death and the Penguin.
Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. After... Buy or find out more →
The Magician King
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
The unputdownable new novel by the bestselling author of CODEX
Nothing is ever as it seems
Deep in the forests of the magical land of Fillory a disturbing secret is discovered, one that could change the course of history... Buy or find out more →
Lola's Secret
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Magic can happen in every family
At the Valley View Motel in South Australia's picturesque Clare Valley, eighty-four-year-old Lola Quinlan is up to her usual mischief. She's sent her family away for Christmas and invited... Buy or find out more →
Lady Of The Rivers
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI.
Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extrao... Buy or find out more →
Infrared
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
After a childhood marked by pain, Rena Greenblatt has found the strength to build a successful career as a photographer. Like the ultrasensitive infrared film she uses, Rena sees what others don’t see, and finds a form o... Buy or find out more →
Matilda Is Missing
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Garry Hartshorn and Softie Monaghan were never love's young dream. Not even on their wedding day.
Softie was sophisticated, a career woman, who owned a nice apartment overlooking St Kilda Beach. Garry had a few rough edg... Buy or find out more →
The Secret In Their Eyes
$29.99 – Trade paperback /
Part haunting crime thriller, part love story, the gripping tale that inspired the Oscar-winning best foreign film makes its eagerly-awaited debut in English.
Determined to put to rest his obsession with the decades-old ... Buy or find out more →
C
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who – as his name suggests – surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.
Born... Buy or find out more →
Stabat Mater
$19.99 – Paperback book / Serpents Tail
In early eighteenth-century Venice an orphan girl discovers life and independence in the music of Vivaldi. The female musicians of the Instituto della Pieta play from a gallery in the church, their faces half hidden by m... Buy or find out more →
Gods Without Men
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
The California desert. 2008. A four-year-old boy disappears in the wilderness and his parents find themselves at the centre of a media witch-hunt. A British rock star hides out at a run-down motel. A teenage Iraqi refuge... Buy or find out more →
All That I Am
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
Read our Q&A with Anna Funder about All That I Am.
'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like... Buy or find out more →
Aleph
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Aleph is an encounter with our fears and our sins.
A search for love and forgiveness, and the courage to confront the inevitable challenges of life .
Each end gives us the opportunity for a rebirth
Aleph marks a return t... Buy or find out more →
The Opportune Moment, 1855
$17.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press
The nineteenth-century founding of "free settlements" in the Americas serves as a starting point for the new novel by popular Czech author Patrik Ouředník.
Simultaneously satiric and philosophical, The Opportune Moment... Buy or find out more →
Damned
$29.95 – Paperback book / Jonathan Cape
Thirteen year old Madison has problems: she’s overweight, ignored by her movie star parents, and in love with her adopted brother. She’s also dead. But not just dead. Madison is in Hell. Chuck Palahniuk’s latest, Damned,... Buy or find out more →
Open City
$29.99 – Paperback book / Faber & Faber
Nigerian immigrant Julius, a young graduate student studying psychiatry in New York City, has recently broken up with his girlfriend and spends most of his time dreamily walking around Manhattan. The majority of Open Cit... Buy or find out more →
House Of Holes
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster
Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, "House ... Buy or find out more →
If It Is Sweet
$24.95 – Paperback book / Brass Monkey
Read Mridula Koshy's blog post about the story behind If It Is Sweet
In If It Is Sweet, precisely etched characters collide, the blind suddenly seeing the blind. Mridula Koshy plumbs the chasms across which they stare, ... Buy or find out more →
Crooked Little Heart
$24.95 – Paperback book /
Rosie Ferguson, on the cusp of adolescence, is obsessed with tournament tennis. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband; her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with h... Buy or find out more →
New Selected Stories
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Written with e... Buy or find out more →
Sarah Thornhill
$39.95$34.95 – Hardcover book / Text Publishing
This powerful novel will enthrall readers of Kate Grenville’s bestselling The Secret River, winner of the Commonwealth Writers‘ Prize.
From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things f... Buy or find out more →
The Quality Of Mercy
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Hutchinson
The Quality of Mercy opens in the spring of 1767, in the immediate aftermath of the events in Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger. It follows the fortunes of two central characters from that book: Sullivan, an Irish fiddler, ... Buy or find out more →
The Honey Thief
$24.95 – Paperback book / Wild Dingo Press
'Moving effortlessly from the oral to the written, from folktale to modern-day fable, and from the earthly to the transcendent, this beautiful, life-affirming book probes the heart and soul of a remarkable culture, while... Buy or find out more →
The Submission
$29.95 – Paperback book / William Heinemann Australia
In the two years since the Twin Towers fell, Claire Harwell has reluctantly transformed from blissful wife-and-mother into an advocate for her fellow widows. In her latest – and hopefully final – act of service, she sits... Buy or find out more →
Cool Water
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink of an eye kind of town - the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people - and it's easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets. Situated on the edge of the ... Buy or find out more →
RSVP
$29.99 – Hard back / Simon & Schuster
Four women, one wedding and a day to remember - or rather forget ...
Anna's world is rocked when she receives an invitation to her ex Toby's nuptials - Toby was The One, The Love of Her Life, The One That Got Away. Will ... Buy or find out more →
The Emperor Of Lies
$32.99 – Paperback book / Faber & Faber
In February 1940 the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in Poland, in the city of Lodz. A wire fence was built around the Old City, completely separating Jewish families, some quarter of... Buy or find out more →
How I Became A Famous Novelist
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Read Steve Hely's guest blog post about the story behind his novel How I Became A Famous Novelist.
A razor-sharp evisceration of celebrity culture and literary fame, How I Became a Famous Novelist is a satirical novel m... Buy or find out more →
House Of Sticks
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Peggy Frew's interview with Kate Veitch about House of Sticks.
Peggy Frew’s debut novel, House of Sticks, won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Her story ‘Home Visit’ won ... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Saying Goodbye
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
She was the thread that wove their tapestry together.
With a group of women as diverse as the ladies from Brightwood Trace, you might not think them to be close. There's Julianne, a nurse with an unsettling psychic abili... Buy or find out more →
Sisterhood Everlasting
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Random House
Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting. Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows tha... Buy or find out more →
Jack And Jill
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Jill and her dad are happy enough after her mother dies. Theirs is a simple life in the outback, far from the big city where a coathanger is being built across a sparkling harbour.
Until Jack arrives at their door one ev... Buy or find out more →
Daddy's Wings
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
I knew that my father was not the sort of person to just run off on us. Especially not on me, the first-born, the favourite. And in fact, he had come back; in his own way, he’d come back to me.
In an isolated corner of... Buy or find out more →
Everything Beautiful Began After
$20.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens—trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear.
George has come to Athens ... Buy or find out more →
Cain
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate Jos Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, he has done it again with Cain, a satire of the Old Testament.
Writte... Buy or find out more →
The House By The Sea
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea just outside her small village. She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens, and imagine that one day... Buy or find out more →
Black Jesus
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The story of a young American war veteran returned to his hometown after being blinded in Iraq by a homemade bomb and the unexpected love he finds with a mysterious dancer who is fleeing darkness and violence of a differ... Buy or find out more →
Hinterland
$29.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
It is night, and two boys are crossing a river that is also a border. They have nothing but the clothes on their backs, their inheritance stitched into the lining of a belt, and the courage of an enormous gamble: that Eu... Buy or find out more →
The Borrower
$29.95 – Trade paperback / William Heinemann
A fabulous debut novel about the stories we read and the ones we tell ourselves
In this delightful, funny and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road…
Lucy Hull, a young c... Buy or find out more →
Rules Of Civility
$29.99 – Paperback book / Hachette Livre
In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew:
The location of every old church in Manhattan,
How to sneak... Buy or find out more →
Machine Man
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident, it's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity.
As a scientist, Charlie always thought his body could be better. His employer, military contractor Better Future, has t... Buy or find out more →
The Fat Years
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
Beijing, sometime in the future. Economic armageddon has ravaged the West, but China has emerged richer and stronger. The Chinese own Starbucks, which now serves Dragon Lattes. But mysteriously, a month has gone missing ... Buy or find out more →
Save Me
$29.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press
A heartfelt emotional roller-coaster of a read
Description of book
Your child always comes first, don't they?
Rose McKenna volunteers at her daughter Melly’s school in order to keep an eye on Amanda, a mean girl who’s be... Buy or find out more →
Hello Darkness
$32.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
In Ned Jelli's family, journalism and siren-chasing in the news pit of Sydney is in the genes. And everyone knows, you can't escape your genes, or your family. At 39, Ned's life has come full circle and he finds himself ... Buy or find out more →
Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A chance discovery in boarded up old hotel brings back long forgotten memories and rekindles a forbidden love, swept aside during the chaos and heartbreak World War II and internment of Japanese families in the wake of P... Buy or find out more →
The Storm At The Door
$29.99 – Paperback book / Faber & Faber
Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient in the country's premiere mental hospital, a world of structured authority and absolute control - a forced regression to a simpler time even as the ... Buy or find out more →
The Fix
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
At university Josh had dreamed of investigative journalism, exposing corruption and changing the world for the better. After a romance and friendship fail simultaneously he finishes his university studies with little mot... Buy or find out more →
The Chase
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
They're all doing it... It's not so much a contest between horses, as a race to find the best recipe.
When young scientist Jean Campbell is invited help root out drugs in sport, she enters a murky world where power, priv... Buy or find out more →
The Story Of Beautiful Girl
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Preface
A devastatingly powerful and memorable novel for readers of The Memory Keeper's Daughter.
Pennsylvania, 1968. Lynnie, and her sweetheart Homan, have escaped from The School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, an institut... Buy or find out more →
Burning Bright
$22.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Ron Rash has long been a critically acclaimed writer but his novel, Serena, catapulted him to new heights garnering rave reviews across Australia and becoming ... Buy or find out more →
Scenes From Village Life
$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Vintage
An unsettling portrait of a fictional village from the Israeli master storyteller
Amos Oz’s new fiction presents a surreal and unsettling portrait of a village in Israel. A picture of the community takes shape across sev... Buy or find out more →
Grow Up
$22.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Jasper has his hands full. Finishing high school would be hard enough without a mother pushing him to overachieve, and his friends pushing drugs down his throat. And then there’s his stepdad: moustache-wearing, patronisi... Buy or find out more →
The End Of Everything
$32.95$27.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
When you're thirteen and your best friend goes missing, only one thing is certain: your life will never be the same again
Lizzie and Evie are inseparable. They walk home from school together, sleep over at each other's h... Buy or find out more →
The Great Night
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Granta
On Midsummer's Eve, 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park on their way to a party. And on this night, something unusual and awful is happening in ... Buy or find out more →
Pepsi Bears And Other Stories
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Daring and provocative short stories from one of Australia’s best comic writers.
A collection of fables in which the intuition of animals is set against the hubris of man, Anson Cameron is part court jester, part accla... Buy or find out more →
The German Boy
$26.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
'So this will happen. I will inherit Karen's son who I hate and love before I've even set eyes on him.'
It is 1947. A sixteen-year-old German orphan, Stefan Landau, has come to live with his aunt's family in England. Eli... Buy or find out more →
Bed
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
What makes life worth getting out of bed for?
Mal isn’t like the other kids. He makes an impression on everyone he meets. So remarkable is his childhood that his family wait for the incredible things he seems born to do.... Buy or find out more →
Shieldwall
$32.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
A superbly evocative novel chronicling the momentous events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies d... Buy or find out more →
State Of Wonder
$30.00$29.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Heart of Darkness meets The Poisonwood Bible in this dazzling tale of science and ritual, terror and love from the Orange prize-winning author of Bel Canto.
There were people on the banks of the river.
Among the tangled ... Buy or find out more →
Babylon
$32.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Read Stephen's guest blog post about the story behind Babylon.
A new novel from the author of the novelisation of Animal Kingdom and the screenwriter of the movie The Boys.
An English backpacker heads north for sun, wom... Buy or find out more →
There But For The
$26.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough. Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself... Buy or find out more →
One Summer
$17.99 – Paperback book /
When Jack Canfield is told he has a terminal illness and that he has weeks to live, his first concern is for his beloved wife, Lizzie, and children, baby Jack, Cory and rebellious teenager Mikki. On Christmas Eve, when L... Buy or find out more →
History Of A Pleasure Seeker
$32.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
Piet Barol is an alluring and intelligent young man who has escaped his drab existence, living with his father in the university town of Leiden, and moved to Amsterdam to take up a job at a stunning mansion in the city's... Buy or find out more →
The Coffee Story
$30.00$24.95 – Paperback book / Hachette
At the end of his sorry life, Teddy Everett, reluctant heir to the Everett fortune realises that he may have been at his best when he was 14, the night Kebreth made him a communist by rubbing coffee bean oil on his face.... Buy or find out more →
A Dance With Dragons: A Song Of Ice And Fire Book Five
$39.95$34.95 – Hardcover book / Voyager
GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.
Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1 New York Times... Buy or find out more →
Blue Monday
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets . . .
The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face... Buy or find out more →
Titus Awakes
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When Peake died in 1968, he left behind the start of a fourth Gormenghast book, Titus Awakes. His wife, the writer and artist Maeve Gilmore, completed the manuscript. The book continues the story of the Titus, the 77th E... Buy or find out more →
Wish You Were Here
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Picador
A masterly work from one of our greatest writers
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier broth... Buy or find out more →
The Land At The End Of The World
$32.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Considered to be Antonio Lobo Antunes's masterpiece, The Land at the End of the World-now in a new and fully restored translation by acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa-recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese me... Buy or find out more →
There Should Be More Dancing
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Random House
Margery Blandon has led a life of principles. Now she finds herself sitting on the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel, preparing to throw herself to her death.
Margery Blandon was always a principled woman who found guidance... Buy or find out more →
Say Her Name
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
In the summer of 2007, Francisco Goldman's young wife Aura died suddenly on a beach in Mexico. Say Her Name is the novel born out of this personal tragedy ...
Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful you... Buy or find out more →
The White Devil: A Ghost Story
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
The Dead Poet's Society/Secret History meets The Turn of the Screw - a campus novel that is also a haunting ghost story.
Andrew Taylor is sent by his father to spend his final year at the prestigious public school Harrow... Buy or find out more →
A Man You Can Bank On
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Hachette
The cops want to arrest him. The crims want to kill him. The town wants to name a dog after him.
Lambert Hampton is the man the small, drought-ravaged country town of Munni-Munni turn to when they uncover $3 million stol... Buy or find out more →
Fun And Games
$19.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
An explosively fast-paced and edgy L.A. thriller from an up-and-coming American talent.
Accidental shootings per year: 1,500
Accidental falls per year: 14,900
Accidental motor vehicle crashes per year: 43,200
'Accidental... Buy or find out more →
Afterwards
$29.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
There is a fire and they are in There. They are in there ...Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one mother, Grace, sees the smoke and runs. She knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She r... Buy or find out more →
When We Have Wings
$32.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
In a world divided into fliers and non-fliers, how far would you go to be able to fly? How much would you sacrifice - perhaps your own child? A beautifully written and compellingly original novel of sacrifice, betrayal a... Buy or find out more →
Irma Voth
$29.99 – Paperback book / Faber
A story of love, longing, and dark family secrets from one of Canada's most acclaimed writers.
The stifling, reclusive life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married and more recently deserted, is turned on its he... Buy or find out more →
Father Of The Rain
$29.99 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
A break-out novel from one of America's most strikingly powerful and accessible talents.
Daley Amory is eleven years old when her parents split up, leaving her torn between two worlds. While her mother thrives in her new... Buy or find out more →
A Break In The Chain: The Early Kozminskys
$27.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
In 1856, Simon Kozminsky travelled from Prussia to begin a new life in the fledgling colony of Victoria. In the hea... Buy or find out more →
Graveminder
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
When Rebekkah returns to her small-town home for her beloved Grandmother's funeral, little does she suspect that she is about to inherit a darkly dangerous family duty on behalf of Claysville's most demanding residents -... Buy or find out more →
At Last
$32.95$27.95 – Paperback book / Macmillan
At Last is (appropriately enough) a final chapter in the acerbic, satirical yet moving sequence of novels by Edward St Aubyn concerning the life of Patrick Melrose. Born into a family that, teetering on the edge of immen... Buy or find out more →
I Am Max Lamm
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
‘I am Max Lamm is an unusually good comic novel. If you enjoy the neurotic, close-to-the-bone humour of Steve Toltz, Woody Allen or John Safran, you’ll like this. This is one author definitely worth watching.’ Australian... Buy or find out more →
The Arrivals
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
A tender and tangled tale of family that will make you laugh and cry - and want to phone home ...
′ Takes on the age-old topic of parents and children and their children with a fresh perspective, a canny understanding of... Buy or find out more →
Berlin Syndrome
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Melanie Joosten's guest blog post about the story behind Berlin Sydrome
Berlin. The once-divided city still holds its share of secrets.
One afternoon, near the tourist trap of Checkpoint Charlie, Clare meets Andi. ... Buy or find out more →
The Vanishing Act
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
This is a story about a snow-covered island you won't find on any map.
Minou and her Papa live on a tiny island in the middle of nowhere. Minou’s mother has been missing for a year and despite what everyone tells her, Mi... Buy or find out more →
A Decline In Prophets
$29.99 – Paperback book / Pantera
A Rowland Sinclair Novel
In 1932, the RMS Aquitania embodies all that is gracious and refined, in a world gripped by crisis and doubt.
Returning home on the luxury liner after months abroad, Rowland Sinclair and his comp... Buy or find out more →
The Map Of Time
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Enter a world of wonder, intrigue, and adventure …
London, 1896. Andrew Harrington’s beloved has been murdered by Jack the Ripper. Claire Haggerty longs to escape the constraints of Victorian society. For both, time is... Buy or find out more →
Two Greeks
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
Oddly, I am only intermittently aware that our lives are dismal. I think all fathers must be part ogre, part child, part Zeus in the clouds – or all Greek fathers, even if I know no others.
Ten-year-old Andy senses tha... Buy or find out more →
Last Summer
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Rory has it all: looks, talent, charisma - an all around good-guy, he's the centre of every party and a loving father and husband. Then one summer's afternoon tragedy strikes ... and those who closest to him struggle to ... Buy or find out more →
Agent 6
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters to New York as part of a 'Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold War enemies. Leo's nat... Buy or find out more →
At Last
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Picador
At Last is (appropriately enough) a final chapter in the acerbic, satirical yet moving sequence of novels by Edward St Aubyn concerning the life of Patrick Melrose. Born into a family that, teetering on the edge of immen... Buy or find out more →
The Godless Boys
$29.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
England. 1986. The Church controls the country, and all members of the Secular Movement have been expelled to the Island. On the Island, religion is outlawed. A gang of boys patrols the community, searching for signs of ... Buy or find out more →
Smut
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Faber
Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. Description
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own h... Buy or find out more →
The Book Of Lies
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Read our interview with Mary Horlock about The Book of Lies.
Guernsey, 1985. Fifteen-year-old Catherine Rozier has a secret she can no longer keep to herself. It’s about the night her best friend fell from the cliffs.... Buy or find out more →
Faces In The Clouds
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin Books
Twin brothers Stephen and Lawrence Kennedy are army kids; theirs is a world of barracks, bunks and barbecues. But then their parents are killed in a car accident and the boys are sent to stay with people they barely know... Buy or find out more →
The Amateur Science Of Love
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
They say we fall in love. But really we fall in sickness. I lost appetite for food in those two nights with Tilda. My stomach was sunken in its wishbone cavity. Me, I was never sick, but I was sick now, the strangest sic... Buy or find out more →
River Of Smoke
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
The much anticipated sequel to the bestselling, Booker shortlisted, Sea of Poppies.
The second in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new as they journey... Buy or find out more →
Last Man In Tower
$32.95 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
Last Man In Tower is an operatic and breathtakingly accomplished big novel of contemporary India: a country hungry for the future but mired in the past.
Every building tells a story: but in the jungle of Mumbai, one buil... Buy or find out more →
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion?
$34.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
Johan Harstad’s debut novel tells the story of Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Norway, whose idol is Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon: a man willing to stand in Neil Armstrong’s shadow in the servic... Buy or find out more →
The Life: A Novel
$32.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
He looked into the Pacific and the Pacific looked back into him. Malcolm Knox is one of Australian literature's rising stars. No less a literary authority than the Guardian had this to say after Jamaica, Malcolm's third ... Buy or find out more →
End Of The Night Girl
$24.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
Molly, a sassy Australian waitress, is haunted by the ghost of a murdered Polish Jew. The two young women's stories, each a compelling page-turner, combine teasingly in one as End of the Night Girl explores shadows cast ... Buy or find out more →
The Absolutist
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas.
September 1919:20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fou... Buy or find out more →
The Making Of Us
$31.95 – Trade paperback / Century
The wonderful new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of After the Party.
In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his ha... Buy or find out more →
The Meowmorphosis
$17.95 – Paperback book / Quirk
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten
The phenomenal success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies inspired a massively popular litera... Buy or find out more →
Water Under Water
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
A story to make you question your own assumptions, emotions and actions.
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Water Under Water is the story of Jim and Tom Campion, a father and son who share a passion for the water. Jim is a high achiev... Buy or find out more →
Armani Angels
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
A page-turning, wicked romp of bitchy one-upmanship and competition wrapped in a hilarious, satirical bow
Dynamic PR guru Gemma Bristol has her well-manicured finger firmly on the pulse of the Australian social scene. Sh... Buy or find out more →
King Of The Badgers
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small Engli... Buy or find out more →
The Good Muslim
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
By the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
One hot afternoon in a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram brings life-changing news to Maya Haque’s door . . .
Eight years before, a brutal war tore Maya’s countr... Buy or find out more →
Alice Bliss
$32.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Alice Bliss is fifteen. She's smart, funny, and clever. Not afraid to stand up for the things she believes in. She also idolises her father and, when he leaves home to fight a war she doesn't believe in, Alice is distrau... Buy or find out more →
The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
The new and last Beryl Bainbridge is a double murder mystery and a bittersweet masterpiece of the kind with which she has made her reputation.
In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Ken... Buy or find out more →
Girl Reading
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
A dazzlingly inventive debut.
Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading.
A young orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist's servant girl in 17th-century Amster... Buy or find out more →
The Colour Of Tea
$32.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Lost among the gaudy, busy streets of Macau, Grace's life is slowly unravelling. Her marriage to Pete, her Australian husband, is fraying and her dreams of having a family seem hopeless.
With the heralding of a new year ... Buy or find out more →
Love, Honour And O'Brien
$22.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Holly Love's in big trouble - she's got to find the cheating swine who ripped her life apart, which turns out to be a huge mystery involving a gloomy old house, a hearse-driving Elvis impersonator and a gang of vengeful ... Buy or find out more →
Far To Go
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize
An extraordinary piece of fiction that chronicles the history of the Kindertransport and one Jewish family's desperate struggle to escape Czechoslovakia during the Nazi invasion. Buy or find out more →
Shooting The Fox
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
On love and loss, sex and death, food and gardening ... a new collection by Australia's most assured short-story writer.
'Why did Bluebeard kill his wives? Because that's what he did. It's a given. It's the plot. Until t... Buy or find out more →
Island Of Wings
$32.99 – Paperback book / Quercus
Lizzie is bright, cheerful and almost ethereal in her beauty, without having any knowledge of it herself. When she married Neil, a minister for the Church of Scotland, it was because of his looks, spirit and intent to do... Buy or find out more →
Comedy In A Minor Key
$22.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Finalist, The National Book Critics Circle 2010 Awards
A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation — and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners — Comedy in a Minor Key tells the sto... Buy or find out more →
A Conspiracy Of Friends: A Corduroy Mansions Novel
$29.95 – 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 →
A Moment In The Sun
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Mcsweeneys
It's 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five y... Buy or find out more →
Love In The Years Of Lunacy
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A moving, tender and compelling story of forbidden love set amid the devastation of war from the award-winning author of Dreamtime Alice.
Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful and impetuous. She plays saxophone in a... Buy or find out more →
Gillespie And I
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
Gillespie and I will be the eagerly awaited follow up to Jane Harris' hugely acclaimed Observations.
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story... Buy or find out more →
Too Close To Home
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
How tenuous the links are that build a life. Too Close To Home takes us right inside who we really are.
Freya writes uncomfortable domestic dramas. Her friends work in theatre and film, show in galleries, talk politics a... Buy or find out more →
The Registrar's Manual For Detecting Forced Marriages
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, and a residency permit is a ticket to p... Buy or find out more →
Embassytown
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Tor
Welcome to Arieka, the distant, densely imagined planet that serves as principal setting for China Mieville’s extraordinary new novel, Embassytown.
Immerser Avice Benner Cho has returned to her childhood home, from her... Buy or find out more →
Dead Reckoning: The Southern Vampire Mysteries Book Eleven
$29.99 – Paperback book / Orion
The brand-new True Blood novel, starring the irrepressible Sookie Stackhouse. How can you resist?
With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since ... Buy or find out more →
Bullfighting
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
Bullfighting is Roddy Doyle’s eagerly anticipated second collection; a series of bittersweet tales on men and middle age, revealing a panorama of Ireland today.
The men in Bullfighting are each concerned with loss in d... Buy or find out more →
Lying Together
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Tindal Street Press
Sparkling with sympathy, style and wit, Gaynor Arnold's debut collection is populated by characters searching for equilibrium - whether it is the recalcitrant recovering alcoholics of the title story; the wartime waitres... Buy or find out more →
You Lose These And Other Stories
$27.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
Short stories from Goldie Goldbloom, award-winning author of The Paperbark Shoe.
Dark. Delicious. Superb.
‘Prepare to encounter startling epiphanies, wonderfully eccentric conceits, and standout instances of wit and obse... Buy or find out more →
Lucky Break
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
It is their first day at Drama Arts, and the circle of huddled, nervous students are told in no uncertain terms that here, unlike at any other drama school, they will be taught to Act. To Be. To exist in their own world ... Buy or find out more →
All The Time In The World: New And Selected Stories
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
A wedge is driven between a husband and wife when a mysterious stranger arrives, claiming to have grown up in their home. After agreeing to marry a beautiful, headstrong Russian immigrant in exchange for a promotion, a b... Buy or find out more →
I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Houghton Mifflin
Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams--not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morph... Buy or find out more →
The Hunger Trace
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Hunger Trace
After the sudden death of David Bryant, the charismatic owner of a rambling Derbyshire parkland, three people are left to mourn him in very different ways. David's young widow, Maggie, struggles with her gri... Buy or find out more →
Toploader
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Quercus
Spying inside the Iraqi Embargoed Zone is risky business. Agent Cobra has been doing just this, and is now due his payment. But there's a snag: his spymaster, Captain Smith, is broke. All Smith can offer Cobra is the mys... Buy or find out more →
The Death Of Eli Gold
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. As Eli Gold, a famous old writer lies dying in a hospital in New York, his family gather around his bed. His... Buy or find out more →
The Girl Who Would Speak For The Dead
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
Emily and Michael Stewart are precocious 13-year-old twins, wandering aimlessly around their family's Philadelphia estate during the quiet summer of 1925. Emily has an odd physical tic—she secretly cracks a joint in her ... Buy or find out more →
The Moment
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Hutchinson
From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes a tragic love story set in Cold War Berlin.
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Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Livi... Buy or find out more →
Caleb's Crossing
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
Once again, Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks takes an unlikely shard of little-known history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young Indian named Caleb from the island of Martha′s Vineyard became th... Buy or find out more →
Plugged
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
Headline are delighted to announce a brilliant darkly comic adult crime debut from the bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl children's titles.
Dan, an Irishman who's ended up in New Jersey, works as a bouncer in a seed... Buy or find out more →
Watercolours
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
Eleven year old Novi just wants to blend in - not easy when you′re named after a silkworm and have the most eccentric family in town. A descendent of the first Italian silk growers in northern New South Wales, he is an o... Buy or find out more →
The Forgotten Waltz
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
Anne Enright's tour de force, a novel of intelligence, passion and real distinction
The Forgotten Waltz is a memory of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing. In ... Buy or find out more →
The Dreamseller: The Calling
$19.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
In the vein of The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, The Dreamseller, The Calling is an inspirational fable about a mysterious man who calls himself The Dreamseller. Wherever he goes, he enchants people and inspires ... Buy or find out more →
The Collaborator
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
It is Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam close to the Pakistan border. Indian soldiers appear as if from nowhere to hunt for militants on the run. Four teenage boys, who... Buy or find out more →
The Crossing
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Pantera
Redemption is born of guilt, and weighs heavy on even the strongest man.
Traumatised by the disappearance of his daughter Claire, Taylor Bridges' marriage breaks down, and he exiles himself to Glorys Crossing in Tasmania... Buy or find out more →
Summer And The City
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Summer is a magical time in the city and Carrie is in love with all of it - the crazy characters in her neighbourhood, the vintage-clothing boutiques, the wild club scene, and the mysterious new guys who have entered her... Buy or find out more →
The Spoiler
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
A debut novel guaranteed to catch the attention of journalists because it's all about them! An entertaining satire and a poignant character study of two female journalists trying to survive in celebrity-obsessed, late-ni... Buy or find out more →
The Precipice
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
What happens when an obsession takes over and there is no one to hold you back?
Thea Farmer, a reclusive and difficult retired school principal, lives in isolation with her dog in the Blue Mountains. Her distinguished ca... Buy or find out more →
The Ottoman Motel
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Welcome to Reception…
Simon and his parents arrive in the small town of Reception and check in to the Ottoman Motel. Then, while Simon is asleep, his parents disappear.
Are they lost? Has something terrible happened to... Buy or find out more →
The Lock Artist
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
Winner of the Best Novel at the 2011 Edgar Awards.
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Unable to speak after surviving the terrible incident that took his parents, school becomes a nightmare, until Michael discovers he has ... Buy or find out more →
It Takes A Village
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Growing up in conservative, postwar Australia isn't easy. For eight-year-old Sophie, who has just been told that she's a bastard, it seems that she lives in a world of secrets, unanswered questions and whispers.
Who is h... Buy or find out more →
The Voyagers: A Love Story
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
All he had to do was look carefully enough , ask the right questions, find the right people, keep sailing on, and he would find her.
In 1943, Stead arrives in Sydney Harbour hoping to spend his shore leave with Marina, a... Buy or find out more →
Big Girl Small
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Big Girl Small is a novel for women of all ages; for every girl who is, or was, a teenager. Everybody needs a friend like Judy. She is whip-smart, hilarious, and her story is so real. She's a wonderful singer, full of bi... Buy or find out more →
Funeral For A Dog
$19.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been q... Buy or find out more →
Letty Fox: Her Luck
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarreled the same afternoon, and finding one of my black moods on me, I flung out of my lonely room on the ninth floor ... Buy or find out more →
The Last Four Things
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell
These are The Last Four Things
Now there are Five
Meet Thomas Cale
Returning to the Sanctuary of the Redeemers – Thomas Cale is told by the Lord Militant that the destruction of mankind ... Buy or find out more →
Desert
$22.99 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time.
Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour's tribe ... Buy or find out more →
The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Windmill
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has ... Buy or find out more →
I Hate Martin Amis Et Al
$29.95 – Paperback book / Transit Lounge
It is 1995. Milan Zorec, an aspiring yet rejected novelist, travels from England to Bosnia to join the Serbian forces as a sniper in Sarajevo, in the final months of the longest siege in history. Hes determined to find a... Buy or find out more →
A Man Of Parts
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now…’
Sequestered in his blitz-battered house on the rim of Regent’s Park, as the second war he has ... Buy or find out more →
The Book Of Rachael
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
What if the man you loved betrayed your brother?
Two thousand years ago, while a young Jewish preacher from Nazareth was gathering followers among the people of Galilee, his sister swept floors and dreamed of learning to... Buy or find out more →
The Beauty Of Humanity Movement
$27.99 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
As complex and authentic as the best bowl of pho, The Beauty of Humanity Movement is a vivid portrait of contemporary Vietnam.
Tu' is a young tour guide working in Hanoi. As he leads bands of Westerners on 'war tours' th... Buy or find out more →
22 Britannia Road
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Fig Tree
War changes us all, and sometimes we no longer recognise ourselves . . . 'Housekeeper or housewife?' the soldier asks Silvana as she and eight-year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to England at t... Buy or find out more →
A Visit From The Goon Squad
$22.95 – Paperback book / Anchor
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 →
Long, Last, Happy: New And Collected Stories
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Grove Press
Barry Hannah was widely recognized as one of the masters of the American short story and his death in March 2010 brought writers and readers out of the woodwork to mourn an irrevocable loss to American letters. Now, comb... Buy or find out more →
Half Of The Human Race
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
London. In the sweltering summer of 1911, the streets ring to the cheers for a new king's coronation, and to the cries of suffragist women marching for the vote. One of them is twenty-one-year-old Connie Callaway, daught... Buy or find out more →
The Lake Of Dreams
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home to upstate New York from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass art... Buy or find out more →
Little People
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Mary Ann, an impoverished governess, rescues a child from the Yarra River, she sets in motion a train of events that she could never have foreseen. It is not a child she has saved but General Tom Thumb, star of a ce... Buy or find out more →
Untold Story
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
What if Princess Diana hadn’t died?
What if the tragedy in the Alma Tunnel never happened, and she were
still alive today?
Where would she be, and what would she be doing?
Diana’s life and marriage were fairy tale and ... Buy or find out more →
Bearings
$24.95 – Paperback book / Affirm
Are we slaves to destiny or architects of our own fate? Bearings is about challenging the course of our lives as well as keeping a foothold during unpredictable times. In this affecting novella and collection of stories,... Buy or find out more →
Pride And Prejudice And Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
$17.95 – Paperback book / Quirk
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its prequel, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, were both New York Times best sellers, with a combined 1.3 million copies in print. Now the PPZ trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion with Pride a... Buy or find out more →
Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Sweet Valley is back ...
What terrible secret has torn Jessica and Elizabeth apart?
Ten years after graduating from Sweet Valley High, the Wakefield twins have had a falling out of epic proportions.
After Jessica commits... Buy or find out more →
Snake
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
My life is about to begin. This is the only thought in Irene's head on the day she marries a handsome Second World War veteran. But Irene is restless and rebellious, dangerously bored by her life as a farmer's wife. As t... Buy or find out more →
The Final Testament Of The Holy Bible
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
James Frey isn’t like other writers. He’s been called a liar. A cheat. A con man. He’s been called a saviour. A revolutionary. A genius. He’s been sued by readers. Dropped by publishers because of his controversies. Bera... Buy or find out more →
Under The Influence
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Eve Hardy is exactly where she wants to be in life. She is a successful concert cellist for the Royal Opera, living with her handsome partner in his London apartment. Everything is possible.
Sarah lives in Sydney with he... Buy or find out more →
Paris Dreaming
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Libby is on a man-fast: no more romance, no more cheating men, no more heartbreak. After all, she has her three best girlfriends and two cats to keep her company at night and her high-powered job at the National Aborigin... Buy or find out more →
You Think That's Bad, Stories
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
Culling the vastness of experience--from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average--like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once... Buy or find out more →
Jamrach's Menagerie
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Shortllisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
London, 1857: after surviving an encounter with an escaped tiger on the streets of Bermondsey, nine-year-old Jaffy stumbles into a job for its owner, the wild animal collector,... Buy or find out more →
The Novel In The Viola
$29.99$24.95 – Hardcover book / Hodder Headline
When they started coming for people like us, I was forced to swap my life of champagne and glittering parties in bohemian Vienna for the cap and apron of a parlour maid in a country house on the Dorset coast.
I knew noth... Buy or find out more →
Other People's Money
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
The upper-crust, family-owned bank of Tubal & Co, in the City of London, is in trouble. It’s not the first time in its three hundred and forty year history, but it may be the last. A secret sale is under way, and a n... Buy or find out more →
Pigeon English
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize
Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate. The second ... Buy or find out more →
The Provence Cure For The Brokenhearted
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A gorgeous, moving story about love and hope in the face of loss, in which a small house in the French southern countryside is rumoured to be responsible for mending hearts since WWII.
Every good love story has another l... Buy or find out more →
Bestseller
$19.95 – Paperback book / Alma Books
Jim Talbot, a writer with a dozen unpublished novels under his belt, has been roundly rejected by virtually every agent and publisher in the land, and is willing to go to extreme lengths to make his dream of literary sta... Buy or find out more →
My Dear I Wanted To Tell You
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
A moving and brilliant novel of love and war, set against the brutal backdrop of World War I.
Riley Purefoy and Nadine Waveney, both only eighteen when war breaks out, want only the chance to love and to live - but the w... Buy or find out more →
A Love Letter From A Stray Moon
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
I am Frida, and I am not Frida. I am the moon, hollowed out by remorse. I am many women, I answer to many names. My prayer is from the forests of Mexico, from the molten heart of the earth. Fly closer, fly nearer to me. ... Buy or find out more →
Those Who Come After
$29.99$24.95 – Hardcover book / Picador
Juliana Stolburg was a pretty child, but small. She would collect sounds and mimic them: the hollow clip-clop of horses' hooves on cobblestones, the growl of Papa's motorbike. Papa was a hero of the Resistance. His long ... Buy or find out more →
Blueeyed Boy
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan
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 Last Werewolf
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
A veil of melancholy has fallen over Jacob Marlowe. He’s the last of his kind. Hunted by his enemies and haunted by his past, he is worn out by centuries of decadence and debauchery, and by the demands of his lunatic app... Buy or find out more →
Less Than Perfect
$25.00 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Can we ever really leave our past behind?
From an early age, Caitlin O'Reilly was taught by her father to strive for nothing short of perfection. Growing up in a small town in the North of Ireland, she tries to live up t... Buy or find out more →
Those In Peril
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
Another outstanding adventure from one of the world's best loved storytellers
Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel... Buy or find out more →
Sing You Home
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
After Zoe and Max's last attempt to conceive fails tragically, their marriage breaks apart. When Zoe falls in love again and considers having a family, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never us... Buy or find out more →
The Proper Care And Maintenance Of Friendship
$27.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
In every group of friends there is a leader, the one who brings the group together and encourages them to celebrate the friendship they share. Rachel Braun was that leader, the inspiration to her group of friends - the o... Buy or find out more →
The Paris Wife
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness, until she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, wh... Buy or find out more →
Book Of Lost Threads
$22.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness. Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man ... Buy or find out more →
The Betrayal
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar, postsiege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians w... Buy or find out more →
Concert Ticket
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Anna is on her way home from work on a cold winter's day when she sees a crowd queuing at a kiosk. Though a queue is not an unusual sight in a Russian city, this appears different. There's a rumour that famous exiled com... Buy or find out more →
The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ
$23.95 – Paperback 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 →
Last Dance With Valentino
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
As Rudolph Valentino lay on his deathbed calling for an unknown lover, the world wondered who she was, and only one woman knew the truth. Leaving war-ravaged London in 1916, Jennifer Doyle and her reprobate father set sa... Buy or find out more →
The Art And Craft Of Approaching Your Head Of Department To Submit A Request For A Raise
$27.95 – Hardcover book / Vintage
A delicious, witty and suitably bizarre rediscovered classic from the modern French master, Georges Perec. DESCRIPTION OF BOOK so having weighed the pros and cons you've decided to approach your boss to ask for that well... Buy or find out more →
When God Was A Rabbit
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Headline
For all fans of wonderful books, an absolutely stunning commercial literary debut which is creating genuine international buzz.
WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT is a mesmerising portrait of childhood and growing up; the loss of inn... Buy or find out more →
Anatomy Of A Moment
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Span... Buy or find out more →
Anatomy Of A Disappearance
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father.
Until Mona.
When Nuri first sees Mona, sittin... Buy or find out more →
Night Waking
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Granta
Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a frequently-absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island ... Buy or find out more →
Apocalypse For Beginners
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Portobello
Micky is your average teenage boy, until he meets 17 year old Hope Randall. Living in what was once an exotic pet shop with a bathtub for a bed, Hope is anything but average. For each member of her family, the onset of p... Buy or find out more →
Gone
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
After prison, there can be no straight road home.
A young man is released from a Sydney prison, his hands empty, his identity gone. He catches a southbound train out of town, then hitchhikes west. He hasn’t been home for... Buy or find out more →
Lyrics Alley
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
A lyrical and deeply moving novel by a twice Orange-listed rising star, set in pre-Independence Sudan, Egypt and post-war Britain.
With Mahmood Bey at its helm, the family can do no wrong. But when Mahmood's son, Nur - t... Buy or find out more →
Portraits Of A Marriage
$38.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
A masterwork from the famed Hungarian novelist Sandor Marai, "Portraits of a Marriage" is in fact a portrait of a triangle--three passionate, single-minded lovers fighting over the marriage at the center, each of them be... Buy or find out more →
Gryphon New And Selected Stories
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Pantheon
Ever since the publication of "The Harmony of the World" in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America's finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection--"Through the Safety Net, A Relat... Buy or find out more →
Mr Rosenblum's List
$22.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
List item 2: Never speak German on the upper decks of London buses. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. He's writing a list so he can become a Very English Gentleman. List item 41: An E... Buy or find out more →
Last Rose Of Summer
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Fantagraphics Books
In the summer of 1929, three strong-willed women, related by marriage, gather under one roof: widowed matriarch Maude Hennesey, whose belief inold-fashioned ways is shared by the ladies of her club; her pretty, spoiled d... 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 →
Rosie
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
A year ago Rosie’s dad died; but this young girl, wild of hair, smart of mouth and with an open heart, is busy embracing the world. Unfortunately her mother Elizabeth is finding the business of living much more difficult... Buy or find out more →
The Invisible Bridge
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, and Entertainment Weekly
"A stunning first novel.... Profound love, famil... Buy or find out more →
Trespass
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs s... Buy or find out more →
Falafel King Is Dead
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Portobello
A heartbreaking, prize-winning novel set in a small Israeli town near the border with Lebanon that depicts with raw power the trauma of living in constant fear of attack.
The town has lost its famed falafel king, but the... Buy or find out more →
Farundell
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
In the golden summer of 1924 Paul Asher, still shattered by the trauma of the Western Front, comes to Farundell, an idyllic country house set deep in the Oxfordshire countryside. There, he falls under the spell of the ri... Buy or find out more →
Good As Gold
$32.99 – Paperback book / Quercus
A private banking dynasty has hidden a terrible secret since a family member escaped the Titanic. Edie Quentance is the ugly duckling in a family of charming conformists. For generations, Quentance Bank has managed the w... Buy or find out more →
Remainder
$19.95 – Paperback book / Alma Books
Traumatised by an accident which involves something falling from the skyA" and leaves him eight and a half million pounds rich- er but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder's hero spends his time and ... Buy or find out more →
Hate A Romance
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
Winner of the Prix de Flore, this title uses sex, friendships and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals - Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism - come to an end.
In a controversi... Buy or find out more →
True Soldier Gentlemen
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
The year is 1808 and Hamish Williams is a 'gentlemen volunteer' in the 106th regiment of foot, a man serving with the ranks but living with the officers and uncomfortable in both worlds: looked down on by those with the ... Buy or find out more →
The Siege
$24.95 – Paperback book / Fig Tree
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and b... Buy or find out more →
Meeting Point
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind the missionary work ... Buy or find out more →
Flock
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Sometimes you have to leave what you most love behind . . . Sydney, 1950. Following a chance encounter at Central Station, Francis Sprigge and Lilian Powys, two strangers escaping their past, fall in love and move to the... Buy or find out more →
Nazi Literature In The Americas
$22.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, "Nazi Literature in the Americas" details the lives of ... Buy or find out more →
Love Virtually
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Maclehose Press
It begins by chance: Leo receives emails in error from an unknown woman called Emmi. Being polite he replies, and Emmi writes back. A few brief exchanges are all it takes to spark a mutual interest in each other, and soo... Buy or find out more →
Night Road
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Set on Pine Island, Night Road is the story of three teenagers: Lexi, Mia and her twin brother Zach. Lexi's childhood was spent watching her alcoholic mother slowly poison herself to death. When she turns fourteen, Lexi'... Buy or find out more →
Only Time Will Tell
$49.99 – Hardcover book / Macmillan
The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author.
The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, 'I was told that my fa... Buy or find out more →
The Report
$27.99 – Paperback book / Portobello
A stunning first novel that is an evocative reimagining of a World War II civilian disaster - as it unfolds and decades later from the perspective of one of the children who survived and the magistrate who wrote 'The Rep... Buy or find out more →
The Summer Without Men
$24.95 – 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 →
Daughters-In-Law
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has fiercely devoted herself to her three sons all their lives,and continues to do so even now they are all grown up. They are, of course, devoted to h... Buy or find out more →
Caroline
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
Mr Shaw works for an insurance company, at a desk, in an office, in a city. One year, during his family summer holiday, his world is turned upside down when he meets Caroline. Caroline, whose eyes a man could drown in. C... Buy or find out more →
Night Soul And Other Stories
$19.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press
Best known for his complex and beautiful novels — regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo — Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over... Buy or find out more →
The Pile Of Stuff At The Bottom Of The Stairs
$33.00 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
What's the thing you hate most about the one you love? This is the funniest, most acutely-observed novel about marriage and motherhood, children and work that's been seen in years.
Mary doesn't know what makes her angrie... Buy or find out more →
When The Killing's Done
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
The latest masterpiece from the unstoppable T.C. Boyle, a sweeping epic of family, ecology and the right to life - no matter what the fallout.
'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured ... Buy or find out more →
Stolen
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Arrow
Lucy has always felt there is something missing in her life, despite her privileged background. Now married and with a teenage daughter she and her husband have agreed to a trial separation.
As Lucy tries to piece her li... Buy or find out more →
Me And Mr Booker
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Looking back, Martha could’ve said no when Mr Booker first tried to kiss her. That would’ve been the sensible thing to do. But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a small dull town—a cemetery with lights—her father is mad, h... Buy or find out more →
Desert Fish
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
How far will Gilly go to become someone new?
'Gilly. You know we'll die here, don't you?' Pete's eyes are
glazed and red-rimmed.
'Yes.'
'Aren't you afraid?'
'No, I'm not,' I tell him.
'I can't believe you,' he says. 'I d... Buy or find out more →
August
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death.As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope they might be seen and rescued, we discover the stories of t... Buy or find out more →
Black Glass
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Tally and Grace are teenage sisters living on the outskirts of society, dragged from one no-hope town to the next by their fugitive father. When an explosion rips their lives apart, they flee separately to the city.
The ... Buy or find out more →
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 →
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Book Twelve
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle- post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side o... Buy or find out more →
The History Of History
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
A young American woman stumbles one morning from the forest outside Berlin - hands dirty, clothes torn. She can remember nothing of the night. She returns to the life she once knew, but soon an enigmatic letter arrives f... Buy or find out more →
Voice Of America
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Granta
These are stories of Nigeria and of America, and of the frayed bonds that connect the two. Hostages are taken from an American ex pat bar. Attempts are made to get visas, and those who have succeeded return covered in we... 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 →
Left Neglected
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
One typical morning, Sarah Nickerson, a woman in her mid-thirties, is late for work, racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school and daycare. She tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when s... Buy or find out more →
A Discovery Of Witches
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life.... 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 →
One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing: Thursday Next Book Six
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
Thursday Next returns in another inventive, funny and fantastical adventure by the comic and creative genius, Jasper Fforde.
Everyone's favourite literary detective, Thursday Next, is back, in the long-awaited follow-up ... Buy or find out more →
Angelica
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
From the bestselling author of Prague and The Egyptologist comes a mesmerising, provocative novel.
In Victorian London, lowly clerk Constance believes she has found her ultimate husband and protector in Joseph Barton. Bu... Buy or find out more →
The Cookbook Collector
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
New York Times best selling author and US National Book Award shortlisted novelist Allegra Goodman returns with her most accomplishednovel to date, a Sense and Sensibility for the internet age.
Two sisters, opposite in e... 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 →
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 →
What The World Will Look Like When All The Water Leaves Us
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
The stories in Laura van den Berg’s rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane.
A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes obsessed wit... Buy or find out more →
We Had It So Good
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
The exquisitely crafted new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS - the thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the late sixties to the present.
In 1968 Stephen Newman a... Buy or find out more →
13, Rue Thérèse
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Headline
A magical and wonderfully inventive story about passion - and Paris.
An American in Paris falls in love with two women, one of whom he can only only imagine, in this wonderful debut.
As he settles into his new office in ... Buy or find out more →
Swamplandia!
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf
From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer K... Buy or find out more →
Five Bells
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
An exquisite and moving new novel from this master storyteller.
On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with... Buy or find out more →
Caribou Island
$24.95 – Paperback book / Viking
An Alaskan Revolutionary Road, Caribou Island from David Vann, bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Legend of a Suicide, is a devastating novel about a marriage, a couple blighted by past shadows and the weight... Buy or find out more →
The Messenger
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Translated from the French by Ian Monk. Foreword by Mark Baker.
Jan Karski, a young Polish diplomat turned cavalry offi cer, joined the Polish underground movement after escaping from a Soviet detention camp in 1939. He ... Buy or find out more →
The Old Romantic
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Fig Tree
Obsessed with death and planning his own funeral, Ken is determined to die in the bosom of his family. But it isn't that easy; his family don't want to know him.
His oldest son Nick left home over twenty years ago and re... Buy or find out more →
I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces Of Humor And Some That May Not Be Funny At All
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Mcsweeneys
"I Found This Funny" is a compilation of work by some of Judd Apatow's favorite authors. The book showcases many different styles of writing, from fiction to short humor to essays to comedy sketches to poetry. Featured w... Buy or find out more →
The Storyteller Of Marrakesh
$34.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Each year, the storyteller, Hassan, gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young, foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. As various witnesses describe their encounters ... Buy or find out more →
The Indignities
$29.95 – Paperback book / Clouds Of Magellan
The long wait is over! The Indignities is the sequel to Sydney author Graeme Aitken's fantastic novel Vanity Fierce (Random House, 1986, 12,000 copies sold in Australia alone).
In Vanity Fierce, Stephen Spear went to ext... Buy or find out more →
Beneath The Shadows
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
How do you begin to move on, if the past won't let you go?
When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam disappears. The following y... Buy or find out more →
Angelology
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
When Sister Evangeline of the St Rose Convent stumbles across a mysterious correspondence with Abigail Rockefeller in the archive, it reveals that angels once walked among us . . . and might still. This discovery plunges... Buy or find out more →
More Than You Can Say
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
The bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN returns with a Buchan-esque thriller.
A late-night gambling session ends in a bet for Richard Gaunt: can he walk to Oxford by lunchtime the next day? Gaunt sets off a... Buy or find out more →
The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Riverhead Books
A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons of our time.
Ptolemy Grey is ninety-one years old and has been all but forgotten-by his family, his friends, even himself-as he ... Buy or find out more →
The Three Weissmanns Of Westport
$27.99 – Paperback book / Constable & Co Ltd
When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five...He said the words 'Irreconcilable differences', and saw real confusion in his wife's eyes. 'Irreconcilable differences?' ... Buy or find out more →
Snowdrops
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
A stunning first novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption.
A. D. Miller's Snowdrops is an intensely riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one ... Buy or find out more →
Crime
$22.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Crime is a collection of true crime stories told by one of Germany’s most prominent defense lawyers. Some of the cases are strange, some bewildering and others heartbreaking, but all are told with genuine concern for tho... Buy or find out more →
The Diviner's Tale
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Corvus
A mother experiences visions of a young girl's murder in this dark gem of a thriller ...
Walking a lonely forested valley on a spring morning in upstate New York, having been hired by a developer to dowse the land, Cassa... Buy or find out more →
The Lightkeeper's Wife
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Looking back, Martha could’ve said no when Mr Booker first tried to kiss her. That would’ve been the sensible thing to do. But Martha is sixteen, she lives in a small dull town—a cemetery with lights—her father is mad, h... Buy or find out more →
O: A Presidential Novel
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
O: A Presidential Novel is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous author who has spent years observing politics and the fraught relationship betwee... Buy or find out more →
Yearn: Tales Of Lust And Longing
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
A collection of nine sensual, witty and mystical stories marking Tobsha Learner′s return to the short story format after the international success of both QUIVER and TREMBLE, and exploring the universal experiences of ob... Buy or find out more →
The Lover's Dictionary
$22.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Autonomy, n. ‘I want my books to have their own shelves,’ you said, and that’s how I knew it would be okay to live together.
A nameless couple meet,
fall in love,
move in together,
and then the hard work of loving ... Buy or find out more →
Delirium
$27.99 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn't understand that once love--the deliria--blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold.
Things are different now. Scientists are ab... Buy or find out more →
The Gordian Knot
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
A prize-winning Cold War spy novel from the author of international megaseller THE READER.
Young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. B... Buy or find out more →
Raven's Heart
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
I am awaiting my castle and the Queen is waiting for love.
Scotland, 1561. A ship carries Mary, the young Queen of Scots, home from the French court to wrest back control of her throne. Masquerading as a male crew member... Buy or find out more →
It Happened One Summer
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
'Williams writes with deadly, witty accuracy about modern life, and pokes right under the veneer' Sophie Kinsella.
A funny, poignant page-turner about family dysfunctions, coming of age and forgiving your mother. And fal... Buy or find out more →
The Shelly Beach Writers' Group
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
What do you do when your husband dumps you for his PA, your company goes broke and your nearly published novel is cancelled?
Gina, a barely 50-something corporate high-flier, is counting her losses when a chance meeting ... Buy or find out more →
Mistaken
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
In this long-awaited novel by critically-acclaimed author Neil Jordan (Shade and Sunrise With Sea Monster), a man exchanges lives with ‘his double’ at whim.
“I had been mistaken for him so many times that when he die... 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 →
Palo Alto
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits - violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco.
Palo Alto is the debut of a surprising and po... Buy or find out more →
Tablet And Pen: Literary Landscapes From The Modern Middle East
$42.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
A volume that celebrates the magnificent achievement of twentieth-century Middle Eastern literature that has been neglected in the English-speaking world.
A landmark literary event, this groundbreaking work spans a centu... Buy or find out more →
The Other Family
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan
Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really ... Buy or find out more →
Before I Fall
$10.00 – Paperback book / Hodder Headline
As compelling as The Lovely Bones and as memorable as Jenny Downham's Before I Die, this will become a word-of-mouth phenomenon.
Sam Kingston is dead.
Except she isn't.
On a rainy February night, Sam is killed in a horri... Buy or find out more →
Fly Away Home
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician's wife - her hair dyed and straightened, her hip... Buy or find out more →
Mr Peanut
$25.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When David Pepin first dreamed of killing his wife, he didn't kill her himself. He dreamed of convenient acts of god.
David Pepin has loved his wife since the moment they met, and after thirteen years he still can't imag... 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 →
Dracula In Love
$24.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Be prepared to be seduced by an erotic and blood-tingling tale. Mina, the most famous woman in vampire lore, vividly recounts the joys and terrors of her passionate affair with the infamous Count. A timeless classic turn... 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 →
The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
A heart-warming novel about a little cafe in Kabul, and the five extraordinary women who meet there ...
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together.
SUNNY... 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 →
Jeff In Venice, Death In Varanasi
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
A wildly original novel of erotic fulfillment and spiritual yearning.
Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman-a jaded and dissolute journal... Buy or find out more →
Claudia's Big Break
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Arena
Claudia's life is a mess until she and two friends take a break from their lives with a Greek island holiday. With a bit of drunken karaoke, a serving of unexpected romance and life will never be quite the same for any o... Buy or find out more →
The Secret Lives Of Dresses
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
Stunning debut women's fiction that reaches out to the fashion conscious with a tale of vintage frocks and new love.
When Dora returns to her home town to run her grandmother's vintage clothing store, it feels like a ste... 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 →
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 →
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 →
While The Women Are Sleeping
$27.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
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 →
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 →
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 →
The Indigo Sky
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
A heart-breaking novel of family and friendships, from the author of STILLWATER CREEK.
It is the spring of 1961, and the sleepy little town of Jingera is at its most perfect with its clear blue skies, pounding surf and b... Buy or find out more →