Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
It is Harvard in the early 1960s. Just off campus, Dr Timothy Leary plays host for his PhD students, laying on a spread of cocktails, pizza and LSD. Among the guests is Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology student, and his librarian wife Joanie. Married young, and both diligently and unglamorously toiling to su ...Show more
Outside the Gates of Eden by Lewis Shiner
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
What happened to the idealism of the 1960s? This question has haunted a generation. Outside the Gates of Edenfollows two men from their first meeting in high school to their final destination in the 21st century. Alex is torn between his father's business empire and his own artistic yearnings. Cole, co ...Show more
Over This Backbone by Ya Reeves
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
I shake my head - it's only day one.That wind is hot. I can feel the salt drying and gluing my eyebrows and lashes and gripping to the fine hairs on my cheeks. Shoulders, already knotted, ache. Blisters bubble their way to the surface, and I know I should have stopped for them but I'm single-minded to t ...Show more
Owlish by Dorothy Tse (translated by Natascha Bruce)
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In a city called Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lackluster career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in his cupboard. And soon Q lands his crowning acquisition: a music box ballerina named Aliss who has tantalizingly spru ...Show more
POW! by Mo Yan
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama-in which nearly everyone dies-unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty WWII ...Show more
PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Meaningful and moving - the classic million-copy bestselling love story from Cecelia Ahern. Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts,no one could imagine them without each other. Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Ho ...Show more
Pacifique by Sarah L. Taggart
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBER'S MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ LITERATURE Is love real if the beloved isn't? Girl, Interrupted meets Rebecca in this taut tale of love and madness.When Tia meets Pacifique, it's a once-in-a-lifetime love. They spend five wild days and nights together, and then Tia wakes up in an amb ...Show more
Painting Time by Maylis de Kerangal
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"One of contemporary fiction's most gifted sentence builders" Beejay Silcox, GuardianBehind the ornate doors of 30, rue du Métal in Brussels, twenty students begin their apprenticeship in the art of decorative painting - that art of tricksters and counterfeiters, where each knot in a plank of wood hides ...Show more
Palace Of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
$34.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Recasting the Indian epic "Mahabharata" from the perspective of Princess Panchaali, veteran novelist Divakaruni ("Queen of Dream") offers a vivid and inventive companion to the renowned poem.--"Publishers Weekly."
Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In Venice, Frances Croy is working to leave the previous year behind: another novel published to little success, a scathing review she can't quite manage to forget, and, most of all, the real reason behind her self-imposed exile from London: the incident at the Savoy. Sequestered within an aging palazzo ...Show more
Pale Horse Riding by Chris Petit
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'No denying the book's power' Nick Rennison, Sunday Times'The real skill of this rigorous, disturbing novel lies in the way Petit steadily and unsensationally allows his protagonists to discover the full horror of the hellhole they are in' Guardian'One of Britain's most visionary writers' David PeaceFr ...Show more
Palmares by Gayl Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in American literature.First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, ...Show more