Metroland by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A special edition of Julian Barnes' first novel with an introduction from the author and previously unseen archive material. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the ...Show more
Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, f ...Show more
White Ivy by Susie Yang
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Ivy Lin was a thief. But you'd never know it to look at her... Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant growing up in a low-income apartment complex outside Boston, is desperate to assimilate with her American peers. Her parents disapprove, berating her for her mediocre grades and what they see as her lazy, entitl ...Show more
The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: The\Bronte Mysteries Ser.
"Move over, Jane Austen, for the latest literary ladies who snoop in this... lively series debut."--Kirkus Reviews on The Vanished Bride Haworth Parsonage, February 1846: The Bront sisters-- Anne, Emily, and Charlotte--are busy with their literary pursuits. As they query publishers for their poetry, ...Show more
Olga by Bernhard Schlink
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The life of one woman - Olga - from late 19th century Prussia to modern Germany.A novel of love, passion and history from beloved modern master Bernhard Schlink. 'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York Times Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the tu ...Show more
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Illustrated Edition by Neil Gaiman
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
This is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane: A dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse.An ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.A beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.And dark forces woken that were best left ...Show more
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 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