So Close to Home by Mick Cummins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A tense, moving novel about a young man struggling with addiction and trauma from the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. For fans of Craig Silvey's Honeybee and Mark Brandi's Wimmera Eighteen-year-old Aaron is charismatic, resourceful and addicted to he ...Show more
Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody
$33.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
'Vivid, beautiful writing, and disturbing in the best way, Rabbit Hole is absolutely unputdownable' MILA KUNIS 'I fell down Rabbit Hole in an obsessive spiral' KATE REED PETTY, AUTHOR OF TRUE STORY 'A mindblowing debut' HEATHER DARWENT, author of THE THINGS WE DO TO OUR FRIENDS A deliciously dark an ...Show more
Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$32.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest disco ...Show more
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
$33.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace, heart and wisdom. No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men ...Show more
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
$23.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
'Eventful, atmospheric, deliciously complex' New York Times 'Elegant and highly accomplished . . . dangerously readable . . . If only all novels were this engaging and this perceptive about human nature' The Guardian'A literary potboiler about love, obsession, professional rivalry between intimates and ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$20.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: good-very good
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funic ...Show more
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
$33.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
And Then She Fell is an unflinching and fiercely witty debut novel of Indigenous life, womanhood and mental health, heralding the arrival of an important and urgent new voice in genre-bending fiction. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful ba ...Show more
Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$23.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
The Angry Women's Choir by Meg Bignell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
'...this is a mighty fun read' - Jessie Tu Freycinet Barnes has built herself the perfect existence. With beautiful children, a successful husband and a well-ordered schedule, it's a life so full she simply doesn't fit. When she steps outside her calendar and is accidentally thrown into the generous b ...Show more
Rouge by Mona Awad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother's fate--and find a connection that is more than skin deep? ...Show more
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
$40.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis. 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life ...Show more