Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Who are you at 16, if you can't remember anything about your life since you were 12? A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fra ...Show more
Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions): Introduced by Tayari Jones by Diane Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: Faber Editions Ser.
Haunting tales of life in the racially divided 1960s American South by a lost star of Black literature, introduced by Tayari Jones. 'This breathtaking collection is a marvel ... One of my literary foremothers.' Tayari Jones'Astute, brilliantly observed, these timeless stories are remarkable. It's all th ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: good
THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio- Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by ...Show more
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
$26.00 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone, slim Chatto hardback for the first time.In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other si ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...Show more
Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Meet Charlie Savage- a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who's realised that he's been a woman all along ... Compiled here for the first time is a whole year's worth of Roddy Doyle's hilarious series for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voi ...Show more
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READ & 100th OPRAH WINFREY BOOK CLUB PICK 'Radiant and brilliantly crafted' New York Times Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William Waters grew up in a ...Show more
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$35.00 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
Dodge Rose by Jack Cox
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law, as ...Show more
Clear (HB) by Carys Davies
$26.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A wondrous tale of bonds forged when two men are pitted against each other on a remote island during the Highland Clearances, from the prize-winning author of West. 1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on th ...Show more
Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A bold, contemporary and urgent novel from a renowned Italian writer that examines silence in different forms, immigration, family and social class. A funny and profound work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of t ...Show more