The Eighth Life (For Brilka) by Nino Haratischvili; Charlotte Collins (Translator); Ruth Martins (Translator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified- this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste ...Show more
The Death of Murat Idrissi by Tommy Wieringa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Trans Sam Garrett
They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not be available. So, when the spry Saleh presents himself as their guide and saviour, they embrace his offer. He extracts them from a tight space, only to lead them inexorably into an even tighter on ...Show more
The Bridge (Stella Shortlist 2019) by Enza Gandolfo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In 1970s Melbourne, 22-year-old Italian migrant Antonello is newly married and working as a rigger on the West Gate Bridge, a gleaming monument to a modern city. When the bridge collapses one October morning, killing 35 of his workmates, his world crashes down on him. It is up to his wife, Paolina, to h ...Show more
The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Very Good. The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow wh ...Show more
Into the Fire by Sonia Orchard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A year after her best friend died in a house fire, Lara can’t come to terms with the loss. Logic says there was no more she could have done to save the mercurial and unhappy Alice, but Lara can’t escape the feeling that she is somehow to blame for the tragedy. She spends a weekend at the rebuilt house ...Show more
Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller
A brilliant young doctor is dead … and someone has to take the blame. Former refugee David Tran becomes the Golden Boy of Australian medical research and invents a drug that could transform immunology. Eight volunteers are recruited for the first human trial, a crucial step on the path to global fame fo ...Show more
The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies run low, panic sets in and still no help arrives. To protect her daughter, Isobel must take drastic action. THE GLAD SHOUT is an extraordinary novel of rare depth and textu ...Show more
The Nowhere Child by Christian White
$16.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thriller
‘Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.’ On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. ...Show more
Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som
$34.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
The eight delightfully eerie stories in Apsara Engine are a subtle intervention into everyday reality. A woman drowns herself in a past affair, a tourist chases another guest into an unforeseen past, and a nonbinary academic researches postcolonial cartography. Imagining diverse futures and rewriting ol ...Show more
Bright by Duanwad Pimwana; Mui Poopoksakul (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Honorable mention in the Global Humanities Translation PrizeWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told--he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his father isn't coming back anytime soon. Adopted b ...Show more
The Impossible Fairytale by Han Yujoo; Janet Hong (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Impossible Fairytale tells the story of the nameless ‘Child’, who struggles to make a mark on the world, and her classmate Mia, whose spoiled life is everything the Child's is not. At school, their fellow students seem consumed by an almost murderous rage. Adults are nearly invisible, and the socie ...Show more
Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha; Stephen J. Epstein (Translator);
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Intan Paramaditha's long-awaited English debut, announcing herself to the West as a startling and provocative new voice. Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves to the supernatural, exploring the danger and power of occupying a female body. T ...Show more