A Life Worth Living by Louise Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Are some white lies simply too big to forgive?Eve and Leah are identical twins--but beyond that, they're polar opposites. Struggling journalist Leah envies Eve's seemingly perfect life--the loyal husband, the beautiful twin daughters, the stellar career--little knowing that what Eve longs for most is Le ...Show more
Along Came a Llama - Tales from a Welsh hill farm by Ruth Janette Ruck
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows: this rediscovered gem of a memoir tells the charming tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever (with a foreword by John Lewis-Stempel) Things llamas like: Snaffling cherry brandy, Easter eggs, and the Radio Times. Flut ...Show more
The Quality of Silence** by Rosamund Lupton
$21.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sunday Times Top-Ten Bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club Choice. I'll risk my life for you. On 24 November Yasmin and her ten-year-old daughter Ruby set off on a journey across Northern Alaska. They're searching for Ruby's father, missing in the arctic wilderness. More isolated with each frozen mi ...Show more
A Suitable Boy: THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER AND MAJOR BBC DRAMA by Vikram Seth
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A modern classic, this epic tale of families, romance and political intrigue never loses its power to delight and enchant readers. Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata - and her mother's - attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal a ...Show more
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
mountweazel n. a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. It is the final year of the nineteenth century and Peter Winceworth has reached the letter 'S', toiling away for the much-anticipated and multi-volume Swans ...Show more
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie cops in the NYPD, live next door to each other outside the city. What happens behind closed doors in both houses--the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come. "A beautiful ...Show more
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has com ...Show more
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Pre-read / Used. Fair condition. "Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicentre of the suicides, the bleak, imp ...Show more
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet
The Story of a New Name, the second book of the Neapolitan Quartet, picks up the story where My Brilliant Friend left off.Lila has recently married and made her entree into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighbourhood that she so ...Show more
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to ...Show more
The Charleston Scandal by Pamela Hart
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
If you devoured THE CROWN you will love this exuberant story of a young Australian actress caught up in the excesses, royal intrigues and class divide of Jazz Age London, losing her way but reclaiming her heart in the process London, 1920s: Kit Scott, a privileged young Australian aiming to become a sta ...Show more
The Dressmaker of Paris by Georgia Kaufmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
I need to tell you a story, ma chère. My story. Rosa Kusstatscher has built a global fashion empire upon her ability to find the perfect outfit for any occasion. But tonight, as she prepares for the most important meeting of her life, her usual certainty eludes her. What brought her to this moment? As ...Show more