Severance by Ling Ma
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Severance is a 2018 satirical science fiction novel by the Chinese-American author Ling Ma. It follows Candace Chen, an unfulfilled Bible designer, before and after Shen Fever slowly obliterates global civilization. Severance explores themes of nostalgia, modern office culture, monotony, and intimate re ...Show more
Under the Cold Bright Lights by Garry Disher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller
The young detectives call Alan Auhl a retread, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way--and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. ...Show more
Kill Shot: A Wyatt Thriller by Garry Disher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller | Series: Wyatt Ser.
Some people just work better alone. Wyatt's one of them. He's been getting by on nice quiet little burglaries-one-man jobs-when he gets wind of something bigger. A corporate crook, notorious Ponzi schemer, set to face court and certain jail time. He's about to skip bail the old-fashioned way- on a luxu ...Show more
The Fragments by Toni Jordan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller
Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things- a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book-and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers.Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in li ...Show more
Revenge: murder in three parts by S.L. Lim
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2021 Stella PrizeHighly Commended Fiction — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 'Before I go into my grave,' she says out loud, 'I will kill that man.'A brilliant new novel from the author of Real Differences. A family favour their son over their daughter. Shan attends universi ...Show more
Everything in its Right Place by McCorkell, Tobias
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Equal parts harrowing coming of age story, and paean to the joys of a misspent youth, Everything in its Right Place is a heartbreaking, lyrical love letter to overcoming trauma, and finding oneself in the bohemian heart of Melbourne.' Liam Pieper, author of The Feel-Good Hit of the Year and Sweetness a ...Show more
Almost a Mirror by Kirsten Krauth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Like fireflies to the light, Mona, Benny and Jimmy are drawn into the elegantly wasted orbit of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk scene of 80s Melbourne, a world that includes Nick Cave and Dodge, a photographer pushing his art to the edge. With precision and richness Kirsten Krauth hauntingly evo ...Show more
The Sea & Us by Catherine de Saint Phalle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the Stella shortlisted author of Poum and Alexandre, this is a heartwarming novel about longing, absence and the people we unexpectedly come to love. After many years spent living in Seoul, a young man called Harold drifts back to Australia and rents a room above a fish and chip shop called The Sea ...Show more
Hollow Earth by John Kinsella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fascinated by caves and digging holes since childhood, Manfred discovers a path through to another realm via a Neolithic copper mine at Mount Gabriel in Schull, Ireland. The world of Hollow Earth, while no Utopia, is a sophisticated civilisation. Its genderless inhabitants are respectful of their enviro ...Show more
The Butcherbird Stories by A. S. Patric
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
New paperback edition of highly praised collection of stories.'One of the most interesting and valuable writers working in Australia today.' The Australian Eleven stories. Each like a matchstick struck to illuminate the darkness. Evocations of place ranging from a Bangla jungle to the deep, blue Danube ...Show more
Wedding Puzzle by Sallie Muirden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On the morning of her wedding, 24-year-old Beth Shaw drives down the peninsula to the Portsea Hotel. She is uneasy and confused because she has just learnt something devastating about her fiancé, Jordan, that completely changes her view of him. As Beth's old schoolmates and her relatives arrive for the ...Show more
The Butcherbird Stories by A. S. Patric
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'One of the most interesting and valuable writers working in Australia today.' The Australian Twelve stories. Each like a matchstick struck to illuminate the darkness. Evocations of place ranging from Belgrade to Dhaka to New York to Melbourne excite and seduce. But what truly draws the reader in are th ...Show more