Touched by Joanna Briscoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
This is a chilling, deeply creepy Hammer novella by Joanna Briscoe, author of the acclaimed, bestselling novel, Sleep With Me. 1963: Rowena Crale and her family have recently moved into an old house in a small English village. But the house appears to be resisting all attempts at renovation. Walls ooze ...Show more
Trespass by Rose Tremain
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister, Audrun, alone in her modern bu ...Show more
Triumph of Caesar by SAYLOR Steven
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Roma Sub Rosa Ser.
This new novel from the international bestselling author of "Roma", is set against the background of Caesar's stupendous quadruple triumphs in Rome in 46 BC, full of colour and spectacle. Having obliterated the opposition, Caesar is now dictator for life. In the upcoming celebrations, Vercingetorix the ...Show more
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent). Utopia Avenue are the strangest British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronte ...Show more
V by Jennifer Natalya
$28.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Fiction. V is based on a story the author's Brazilian-Jewish grandmother tells, a story aimed at explaining why she left Sao Paulo, Brazil, shortly after World War II. Like most family myths, the story changes every time she tells it; however, it always involves a monkey, a gun, a hat, a man, and, impli ...Show more
Valentine Grey by Sandi Toksvig
$19.99 AUD
Category: Queer Fiction
London 1897 and a young girl, Valentine Grey, arrives in England. She's been brought up in the remote and sunny climes of India and finds being forced into corsets and skirts in damp and cold country insufferable. The only bright spot: her exciting cousin, Reggie. Reggie, and his lover Frank seek out th ...Show more
Velvet Nightmares - Hamilton, China by China Hamilton
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In this extraordinary collection of twelve exquisite short stories, most definitely not for the faint-hearted and each illustrated by one of his photographs, renowned photographer China Hamilton tells of the shadowy world he inhabits. Here pleasure and pain merge into one unbearably intense sensation an ...Show more
Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018. WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is str ...Show more