The Idiot by Elif Batuman
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature, and spends a lot of time thinking about ...Show more
Her Side of the Story by Alba de Cespedes
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category
"Looking back over her life, Alessandra Corteggiani recalls her youth during the rise of fascism in 1930s Rome. A sensitive child, she was always alert to the loneliness and dissatisfaction of her mother and the other women in their crowded apartment block. Observing how their lives were weighed down by ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional ( Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$19.99 AUD
Category: 2022 04 April New Release
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins. A man r ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
Sheep's Clothing by Celia Dale
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It was a livelihood which comprised skill, nerve, an understanding and manipulation of humannature, and risk. The risk made Grace Bradby's cold blood runwarmer and faster. Grace Bradby meets Janice in Holloway Prison. Grace is doing six months for larceny and Janice,three for the most recent of a series ...Show more
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
The bestselling novel--and one of Barack Obama's summer reading picks--from the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele. "From one of the world's great contemporary writers comes the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions ...Show more
Out of the Shadows - The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives by Walt Odets
$22.99 AUD
Category: Queer
Even in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man. While young men often come out more readily, even those from the most liberal of backgrounds still struggle to accept themselves and experience stigma, shame and difficulties with intimate relationships. They also suffer from ongoing t ...Show more
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her . . . When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly ...Show more
The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Amanda Lohrey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating ...Show more