The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
29.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
26.95 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
Hopeless Kingdom by Kgshak Akec
32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Akita’s family have always kept moving to survive. Sudan to Cairo. Cairo to Sydney. Sydney to Geelong. At each new place, challenges test and break Akita, her four siblings and her parents. Just when eight-year-old Akita is feeling settled at her new school and community in Sydney for the first time in ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
29.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Witness by Louise Milligan
34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, M ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hire ...Show more
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from the 2021 Booker Prizewinning author Damon Galgut The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the fam ...Show more