A Person Is a Prayer by Ammar Kalia
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happines ...Show more
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
22.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
'Superb' OBSERVER'Cunningly crafted' FINANCIAL TIMES'Faulks is doing what he does best' SUNDAY TIMESIn the depths of the archive, Hannah dances with the ghosts of Vichy France, lost in testimony and a desire to hear the voices of the past. Back in her apartment, Moroccan teenager Tariq crashes on her so ...Show more
Lula Dean's Little Library Of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
'A story that's as furious as it is tender' EMILY HENRY on The Change From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship. In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town's reading habits. All banned books have been remov ...Show more
The Girl with the Violin by Shelley Davidow
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
A powerful love story in which one woman's quest for identity and healing also becomes the single way she can honour her grandparents, whose lives were irreversibly shattered by the Holocaust. Perfect for readers of Anna Funder and Megan Rogers. It's 1989 and for a young Jewish-Australian violinist, a ...Show more
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
34.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
From the globally bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring comes The Glassmaker. Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to control. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts ...Show more
The Third Love by Hiromi Kawakami (Author) , Ted Goossen (Translated by)
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel that moves between Japan past and present to tell a time-bending story about desire and destiny. Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by cha ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
26.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India. AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a pecu ...Show more
How to Make a Bomb: A Novel by Rupert Thomson
32.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
If he suddenly found what surrounded him unbearable, it was because it was artificial. Everything had been designed and manufactured, and he was trapped in it. Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unex ...Show more
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada (translated by David Boyd)
26.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-law ...Show more
Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends - Gift Edition by Frederick H. Martens; Richard Wilhelm; Lucrezia Botti
37.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
Fearless heroes, feisty princesses, sly magicians, terrifying dragons, talking foxes and miniature dogs. They all feature in this enthralling compendium of Chinese fairy tales and legends, along with an array of equally colourful characters and captivating plots.Although largely unknown in the West, the ...Show more
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
22.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ... 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catc ...Show more
The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
34.99 AUD
Category: World Literature
THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air. Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and inter ...Show more