Corfu by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent. In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man hes never met, a young Australian actor pieces together the strange life story of the Australian writer whose house hes living in. As he explores his surroundi ...Show more
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
$21.90 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the heart of a close-knit Indian household to the cool centre of an American family, this novel examines a surfeit of feasting and Indian family life, and the self-denial and starving of affluent American women in the land of plenty.
Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai
$18.65 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"Hugo Baumgartner, the central character of Anita Desai's dazzling novel, is a wandering Jew all his life. From the agonising scenes of his childhood in pre-war Berlin, through his spell in business in Calcutta and then Bombay, he simply does not belong. Too dark for Hitler's society he is too fair for ...Show more
Zero K by Don DeLillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled. He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has chosen to surrender her dying body; preserving it until a future time when biomedical advances and new te ...Show more
Plum Island (John Corey #1) by Nelson DeMille
$16.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: John Corey | Reading Level: Adult
NYPD homicide detective John Corey has moved to Long Island, restlessly recuperating from wounds received in the line of duty when he's hired to consult on the murder of Tom and Judy Gordon, biologists who worked on Plum Island, the site of animal disease research for the Department of Agriculture. Were ...Show more
The Silence by Don DeLillo
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of Covid-19. The ...Show more
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
$21.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets.
Gifts of the Peramangk by Dean Mayes
$26.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In 1950s Australia, during the height of the divisive White Australia Policy, Virginia, a young Aboriginal girl is taken from her home and put to work on an isolated and harsh outback station. Her only solace: the violin, taught to her secretly by the kind-hearted wife of the abusive station owner. Howe ...Show more