Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. ...Show more
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold by Stephen Fry
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths | Reading Level: very good
Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Vietnamese Family History | Reading Level: near fine
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering por ...Show more
The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Trilogy #1) by Cixin Liu; Ken Liu (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: The\Three-Body Problem Ser.
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists ...Show more
Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
$27.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
The Rock Blaster by Henning Mankell
$27.26 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Henning Mankell's first novel, never before released in English, explores the reflections of a working class man who has struggled against the constraints of his station for his entire life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. ...Show more
Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Hector's Journeys
Can we learn how to be happy?Hector is a successful young psychiatrist.He’s very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they’re just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can’t do much for them, and it’s beginning to depress him.So whe ...Show more
Shirl by Wayne Marshall
$24.53 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2019 VPLA for an unpublished manuscript, Shirl expertly dissects the Australian identity through a range of what-if scenarios: a lonely yowie emerges from the bush to attend the Desperate and Dateless Ball; mysterious creatures descend from the sky to place a ban on footy; a shark na ...Show more
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 2 | Reading Level: good-very good
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. Tears of the Giraffe, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations ...Am ...Show more
A Dance with Dragons - After the Feast [Part 2] by George R R Martin
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: A Song of Ice and Fire 5.2 | Reading Level: near fine
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the fifth volume in the series. 'Vivid, rich, multi-layered and utterly a ...Show more
A Dance with Dragons - Dreams and Dust [Part 1] by George R R Martin
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: A Song of Ice and Fire 5.1 | Reading Level: near fine
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS AND DUST is the FIRST part of the fifth volume in the series. 'Richly satisfying and utterly engrossing' ...Show more
A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold (#3.2 A Song of Ice & Fire) by George R. R. Martin
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: A Song of Ice and Fire 3.2 | Reading Level: near fine
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS: BLOOD AND GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume in the series. 'Colossal, staggering . . . one of the greats ...Show more