Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner - Man Booker International 2019! Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated ...Show more
Traces by Gamal Ghitany
$21.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Exploring the nature of memory and consciousness, Traces is an evocative examination of what remains of memories after forgetting has done its work. How do we keep track of people we encountered and who were dear to us, the women we loved and the places we visited? How do we extract those moments spent ...Show more
The Mystery Woman by Belinda Alexandra
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
She had thought Shipwreck Bay was simply a remote town where people were bored senseless with their little lives. Now she saw its virtuous facade hid something darker, more sinister. Rebecca Wood is ready for a quiet life as the new postmistress of a sleepy seaside town. Fleeing a scandal and haunted by ...Show more
The Cedar Tree by Nicole Alexander
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In 1864 cousins Brandon and Sean O'Riain fled their tenant farms in County Tipperary as wanted criminals. Now, three years on, they are working as cedar-cutters in New South Wales's lush-green Richmond Valley. But while Brandon embraces the opportunities this new country offers, Sean refuses to let go o ...Show more
Stone Country (PB) by Nicole Alexander
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
South Australia, 1919. Ross Grant has always felt like the black sheep of his wealthy Scottish family. An explorer at heart, he dreams of life on Waybell, their remote cattle station in Australia's last remaining wilderness, the Northern Territory.Then his brother Alastair is branded a deserter after go ...Show more
The Invitation by Belinda Alexandra
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In Gilded Age New York, money buys everything. What is your price? Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all ...Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a ...Show more
Half Moon Lake by Kirsten Alexander
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by the true story of a missing child who when eventually found was claimed by two mothers, Half Moon Lakeis a captivating novel about the parent-child bond, identity, and what it really means to be part of a family. In 1913, on a summer;s day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny D ...Show more
WANDERING STARS by Sholem Aleichem; Aliza Shevrin (Translator)
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Wandering Stars"--Aleichem's sprawling love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater--this literary classic is presented in a vibrant new translation.
Three Types of Solitude (Faber Stories) by Brian Aldiss
$7.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Brian Aldiss, who died in 2017, was best known for his science fiction - and in particular for a short story optioned by Stanley Kubrick, which would, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, become the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Aldiss's first book was published by Faber in 1955. This brief, la ...Show more
The Scent of You by Maggie Alderson
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Perfume blogger Polly is in crisis. Will her husband's absence break her ... or make her? A novel of perfumes, exploring life, love, loss and forgiveness - Maggie Alderson's new bestseller. Are you still married if you haven't seen your husband for months?Polly's life is great. Her children are away at ...Show more
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very di ...Show more
The Power by Naomi Alderman
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION** What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ...Show more