Waiting for the Barbarians by J.m. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on noting more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would lear ...Show more
It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
When her parents announce their impending separation, Natalie can't understand why no one is fighting or at least mildly upset. Then Zach and Lucy, her two best friends, hook up, leaving her feeling slightly miffed and decidedly awkward. She'd always imagined she would end up with Zach one day - in the ...Show more
A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Before the bushfires--before the front of flames comes roaring over the hills--the ridges are thick with gums. After the fires, the birds have gone. There is only grey ash and melted metal, the blackened husks of cars. And the lost people: in temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the city, on the ...Show more
Shepherd by Catherine Jinks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Fourteen-year-old convict Tom Clay lives in a shepherd's hut in the bush, protecting his master's sheep from wild dogs. When a vicious fellow shepherd returns to ensure there are no witnesses to his crimes, the bush-crafty Tom and his hapless mate Rowdy face a life-and-death battle to survive. ’I’ve al ...Show more
The Subjects by Sarah Hopkins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller
As we got closer I could see behind the sandstone a curved concrete building: a purpose-built structure. But still no fence, no wire. Not a bar in sight. For this, I'd been told that morning, I should be grateful. This was a 'lifeline...a last chance'. That is what the judge said. Daniel is a sixteen-y ...Show more
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Animalia tells the confronting and compelling story of a peasant family in south-west France as they develop their plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by animals, five generations endure the cataclysm of two world wars, economic disasters, and the emergence of a brutal i ...Show more
The Missing of Clairdelune (#2 The Mirror Visitor) by Christelle Dabos
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Series: The Mirror Visitor
The compelling second volume of the bestselling French fantasy series The Mirror Visitor Quartet—winner of the 2016 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire – Roman jeunesse francophone Suddenly Ophelia finds herself thrust into the spotlight: promoted to vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she ...Show more
The Convert by Stefan Hertmans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set at the time of the Crusades and based on historical events, The Convert is the story of a strong-willed young woman who sacrifices everything in the name of love. When author Stefan Hertmans learns that Monieux, the small Provencal village in which he lives, was the scene of a pogrom a thousand year ...Show more
Halibut on the Moon by David Vann
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In his riveting new novel, internationally bestselling New York Times Notable author and Prix Medicis etranger winner David Vann reimagines his father's final days. Middle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California from Alaska and surrenders himself to the care of his brother Gary, who intends ...Show more
Dig by A. S. King
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Only a generation removed from being Pennsylvania potato farmers, property developers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings now sit atop a seven-figure bank account--wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or teenage grandchildren. 'Because we want them to thrive,' Marla always says. What do ...Show more
Room for a Stranger (C-format) by Melanie Cheng
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
By the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might b ...Show more
The Ditch by Herman Koch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back in laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him-and with the straitla ...Show more