Ancient Light by John Banville
$29.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by J.G. Ballard
$35.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
For the first time in one volume, a complete collection of acclaimed short stories by the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes, regarded by many as Britain's No 1 living fiction writer. For four decades, J.G. Ballard has been one of Britain's most celebrated novelists ...Show more
House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Visit the House of Holes, where the motto is 'Pleasure First', and discover a solution to every sexual problem, insight into every sexual intrigue, or play out your greatest sexual fantasy. Men can begin with a 'good, friendly penis scrub', take the magic sperm sniff test or visit the Porndecahedron. Gr ...Show more
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed ...Show more
Longbourn: Pride and Prejudice The Servant's Story by Jo Baker
$32.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to trudge through muddy fields. It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs, ruled tenderly and forcefully by Mrs Hill ...Show more
A Gift of Wings by Bach, Richard
$21.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
These stories, inspired by Bach's lifelong passion for flight, filled with memories of friends from the past and friends not yet met, are woven together with warmth, honesty and courage. With signs and signals, coincidences and tangents turning up at every juncture, Bach shows how truly complex and beau ...Show more