Vernon Subutex Two by Virginie Despentes
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench in the parc des Buttes Chau ...Show more
Vigil Harbor - A Novel by Julia Glass
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
When two unexpected visitors arrive in an insular coastal village, they threaten the equilibrium of a community already confronting climate instability, political violence, and domestic upheavals-a cast of unforgettable characters from the rich imagination of the National Book Award-winning, best-sellin ...Show more
Visitants Text Classics by Randolph Stow
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics
'I want to die. I do not want to be mad...It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come, and attacked the person who lived there.' After an Australian patrol officer commits suicide on a remote New Guinea island in 1959, five witnesses are called to a government inquiry. Each has a disturbing ...Show more
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
‘This deliciously dark American debut’ - The Guardian ‘Best Reads For Summer’ ‘This astonishing debut … I was utterly hooked … [by] this twisty, sexy, shocking treat of a novel … How on earth will Julia May Jonas better this?’ - The Sunday Times A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a ...Show more
War Damage by Elizabeth Wilson
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
London in the aftermath of WW2 is a beaten down, hungry place, so it's no wonder that Regine Milner's Sunday house parties in her Hampstead home are so popular. Everyone comes to Reggie's on a Sunday: ballet dancers and cabinet ministers, left-over Mosleyites alongside flamboyant homosexuals like Freddi ...Show more
Water by John Boyne
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she ha ...Show more
We Who Are About To...: Penguin Worlds by Joanna Russ
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Worlds Ser.
In the event of mechanical dysfunction, the ship's computer goes for the nearest "tagged" planet, ie where human life is supposed to be possible, then ejects the passenger compartment separately. Lays an egg you might say . . .' After an accident destroys their starship and leaves them stranded on an un ...Show more
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden . . .Jeanette Winterson's retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles asks difficult and eternal q ...Show more
Well Behaved Women by Caroline Lamond
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'An engaging portrait of an indomitable woman at the heart of Golden Age Hollywood' Gill Paul, bestselling author of The Manhattan Girls'I was hooked from the first page... it had what I was looking for in the Golden Age of Hollywood' NetGalley reviewer'Really reminded me of City of Girls, the lifestyle ...Show more
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
$19.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany. Since its debut in February, the novel ('Feuchtgebiete', in German) has sold more ...Show more
What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An unforgettable novel about marriage, life, love, and the loss of them all. In this atmospheric, suspenseful novel, an American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. Their difficult journey leaves the wife, who is struggli ...Show more