Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last by Edward St Aubyn
$9.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and fath ...Show more
Crime by Irvine Welsh
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: The\CRIME Ser. | Reading Level: very good
<p>Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, he meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted b ...Show more
Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
$19.95 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Roy Strang is engaged is a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate the evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, ...Show more
Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1) by Irvine Welsh
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
"BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYSb>b>The Number One BestsellerMark Renton has it all- he s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there s no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark s life swings out of control. The way out is heroin. ...Show more
The Olive Sisters by Amanda Hampson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
I open the gate and walk into the field . . . As the sun pours a river of light down this valley, I realise there are hundreds and hundreds of trees and I've seen those silver leaves before, not here in Australia, but shimmering in the groves that grace the terraced hillsides of Tuscany.' When Adrienne' ...Show more
The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfectionis the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage--two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection ...Show more
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction - the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she dec ...Show more
Gravity Well by Melanie Joosten
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Lotte is an astronomer who spends her nights peering into deep space rather than looking too closely at herself. When she returns to her hometown after years in South America, reeling from a devastating diagnosis, she finds that much has changed. Lotte's father has remarried, and she feels like an outsi ...Show more
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Alfred Deakin - scholar, spiritualist, prime minister - was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together his public, private and family lives. She brings out from behind the ...Show more
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
$34.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Cyrus Shams is lost. The orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, Cyrus never knew his mother. Killed when her plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident, Cyrus has spent his life grappling with the meaningless nature of his mother’s death. Now he is set to learn the truth of her life ...Show more
The Singularities by John Banville
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
'This novel is essence of Banville ... a career summation' Daily Telegraph Felix Mordaunt, recently released from prison, steps from a flashy red sports car onto the estate of his youth. But there is a new family living in the drafty old house: descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godle ...Show more
The Summer House by Santa Montefiore
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Antoinette's world has fallen apart: her husband, the man she has loved for as long as she can remember, has died tragically in an accident. He was her rock, the man she turned to for love and support, the man she knew better than she knew herself. Or at least so she thought⦠For as she arrives at the ...Show more