Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions): Introduced by Tayari Jones by Diane Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Faber Editions Ser.
Haunting tales of life in the racially divided 1960s American South by a lost star of Black literature, introduced by Tayari Jones. 'This breathtaking collection is a marvel ... One of my literary foremothers.' Tayari Jones'Astute, brilliantly observed, these timeless stories are remarkable. It's all th ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: good
THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio- Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by ...Show more
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
$26.00 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone, slim Chatto hardback for the first time.In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other si ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the s ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
$34.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Meet Charlie Savage- a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who's realised that he's been a woman all along ... Compiled here for the first time is a whole year's worth of Roddy Doyle's hilarious series for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voi ...Show more
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READ & 100th OPRAH WINFREY BOOK CLUB PICK 'Radiant and brilliantly crafted' New York Times Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William Waters grew up in a ...Show more
Dodge Rose by Jack Cox
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law, as ...Show more
Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A bold, contemporary and urgent novel from a renowned Italian writer that examines silence in different forms, immigration, family and social class. A funny and profound work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of t ...Show more
The Prophet and the Idiot by Jonas Jonasson
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Sweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on the 21st of September tha ...Show more
Sisterhood by Cathy Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Two sisters. One secret. A journey to learn who they really are… As the waves crash on to a wild Atlantic beach, Lou is at a crossroads. For the first time ever, just giving up seems like an option. In just one night, at her own 50th birthday, her world has imploded. Her mother has kept a secret hidden ...Show more