Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. However, this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain, and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication. Now t ...Show more
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesm ...Show more
Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
"Cat's Eye" is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronoto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of fr ...Show more
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick - A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29 ...Show more
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are in a state of unrest. Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mo ...Show more
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
An intelligent, erotically charged thriller with deep moral implications Yvonne Carmichael, renowned geneticist, public authority, happily married mother of two, sits in the accused box. The charge is murder. Across the courtroom, not meeting her eye, sits her alleged accomplice. He wears the beautiful ...Show more
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Reissued to coincide with the release of her new novel 'That Old Ace in the Hole', Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international best-seller and Pulitzer prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular r ...Show more
The Gathering by Anne Enright
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn t the drink that killed him although that certainly helped it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother s house, in the winter of 1968. His sister Veronica was there then, as ...Show more
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
$33.00 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than 'I like you a great deal ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Tales from the Café #1 | Reading Level: very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more
The Confession by Jessie Burton
$18.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
'Dazzlingly good, utterly engrossing . . . Without doubt one of the best novels of recent years' - Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail The sensational Sunday Times bestseller from Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Hea ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
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Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's hi ...Show more