Restless by William Boyd
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A tour de force from William Boyd: a thrilling novel that captures the drama of the Second World War, with a remarkable female spy at the centre of the story. What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the s ...Show more
Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England. A population of proud indigenous people fight for generations to preserve their homelands against an expanding empire - an invasion justified as being necessary for 'progress'.After centuries of resistance, their culture and com ...Show more
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
$25.13 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts S.
This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with "The Universal History of Iniquity", through the influential collections "Ficciones" and "The Aleph", to his final work from the 1980s, "Shakespeare Memory".
The Consolation of Maps by Thomas Bourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Kenji Tanabe finds maps easier to read than people. At the elite Tokyo gallery where he works, he sells antique maps by selling the stories that he sees within their traces: their contribution to progress, their dramatic illustrations, their exquisite compasses. But no compass or cartography can guide h ...Show more
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
$27.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Arrested for spying in the early 1950s and presumed dead by the British Government, Alexander Bayliss, survives 20 years in a Soviet labour camp. Eventually freed he has no reason to return to the West and instead finds his way to the village of his best friend at the camp. Now, on his 80th birthday Rus ...Show more
The Voyages of Sindbad by N.J. Dawood
$9.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Seven voyages. Seven missions. Only one man has survived them. A poor man meets a great sailor and asks to hear his tale. He is amazed to be told of seven journeys to foreign lands, every one ending in shipwreck. As he listens, the traveller describes a flight on a giant bird, battles with foes inc ...Show more
One Split Second by Bond, Caroline
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A moving and ultimately uplifting novel that challenges us to reflect on our own beliefs about guilt, responsibility and forgiveness.
The Killer's Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux
$17.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
At the furthermost edge of the world, bounded by desert and sea, was a farm. Few travellers reached that desolate place. The boy who lived there, Paolo, was like a seed planted in bedrock there, condemned never to bloom...But then came Angel, a wanted man, a killer - and later, Luis, with his paper and ...Show more
Guernica by Dave Bolling
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"Guernica" is a wonderful debut telling the story of two families - focusing on two branches of one family - set before and during the Spanish Civil War, revolving around the bombing of Guernica.In 1935, Miguel Navarro inadvertently finds himself an enemy of the Spanish Nationalists. He flees the Basque ...Show more