A Perfect Day to be Alone by Nanae Aoyama
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tok ...Show more
A Previous Life by Edmund White
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun' Andrew Sean Greer 'The best book in Edmund White's long and extraordinary career' Benjamin moser 'Fresh and inventive and wise' Rebecca Makkai A daring, category-confounding and ruthlessly funny novel from Edmund White, exploring polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and ...Show more
A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The thrilling follow up to the Sunday Times bestseller Hitler's Secret, as Tom Wilde returns to unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich - and the British Monarchy. Sweden, 1942 - Two old friends meet. They are cousins. One is Prince George, Duke of Kent, brothe ...Show more
A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The acclaimed author of AMERICAN DIRT reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book: the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A RIP IN HEAVEN is Jeanine Cummins' story of a night in April, 1991, when her two co ...Show more
A Sand Archive by Gregory Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research... Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is a ...Show more
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Of the more than one hundred books that H. G. Wells published in his lifetime, this is one of the most ambitious. Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of World War I, A Short History of the World is an engrossing account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Wells b ...Show more
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'An apposite and nuanced novel... Picoult writes about an emotive, controversial issue with unflinching precision.' Red **** The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice. Its very existence is controversial, and to the demonstrators who ba ...Show more
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZEA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...? This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summ ...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
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
$23.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material - school bullies, depressed parents - but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. Eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its ...Show more
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A celebration of the power of community, love forged in pain and the redemption that comes from deep kindness in the face of terrible loss. Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It's the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers Ladies' Night Dinne ...Show more