The Ballad of Abdul Wade: The Incredible True Story of Australia's unsung Pioneering Heroes - The Afghan Camelleers by Ryan Butta
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
When Afghan entrepreneur Abdul Wade first brought his camel trains to the outback, he was hailed as a hero. Horses couldn t access many remote settlements, especially those stricken by flood or drought, and camel trains rode to the rescue time and time again. But with success came fierce opposition fuel ...Show more
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell- paradise. Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasises about seducing his neighbour-an at ...Show more
Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'This is where I begin. This blank page draws me nearer to you, the day sweltering, my courage quickens, the curtains billowing and the punkah swaying, the punkah rattling as I sit at my writing bureau ... it is a soothing sound.' Mina, a writer, is navigating her place in the world, balancing creativit ...Show more
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers. Despite their alluring ...Show more
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Within a deca ...Show more
Out of the Ruins by Preston Grassman
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A post-apocalyptic anthology about salvage and the ruins, featuring China Mieville, Emily St John Mandel, Charlie Jane Anders, Ramsey Campbell and more. This anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks, what would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value ...Show more
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Flamingo Ser. | Reading Level: good
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power a ...Show more
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: 19
USA Today Bestseller! Debut author Sally Thorne bursts on the scene with a hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love. Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome. 2) A person's undoing 3) Joshua Tem ...Show more
The Dogs by John Hughes
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'The story of a life is a secret as life itself. A life that can be explained is no life at all.' Elias CanettiIs it possible to write about the living without imagining them dead?Michael Shamanov is a man running away from life's responsibilities. His marriage is over, he barely sees his son and he has ...Show more
She Is Haunted by Paige Clark
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
I know lots of things now that I'm dead. Peter from Apartment Two has a spastic bladder. My former boss Morgan keeps her toenails in a gold jewellery box. My brother and his wife are trying for a baby. I always excuse myself before things get too heated.I don't know much about my mother yet. I am waitin ...Show more
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
“The Cassandra of American letters.”- New York Times When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief? Both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties, ...Show more
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second W ...Show more