The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
The Binding by Bridget Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice ...Show more
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions.This is India now.Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story ...Show more
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
$49.99 AUD
$55.00 (9% off)
Category: Literature
Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them and the sketches that the ...Show more
The Colours of All the Cattle (#19 No 1 Ladies Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The latest installment from THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY series Mma Ramotswe's friend will persuade her to stand for election to the City Council. 'We need women like her in politics,' Mma Potokwani says, 'instead of having the same old men every time . . .' To be elected, Mma Ramotswe must have a ...Show more
The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
For fans of Cold Mountain comes the story of a woman in Mormon country, from the author of The Promise and The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home ...Show more
Slide Rule by Nevil Shute
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
"Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute s path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentatio ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In one terrible moment Jaxie Clackton's life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There's just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only ...Show more
Lullaby by Leila Slimani
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband look for a nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic P ...Show more
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed early, takes in Maneck, the college-aged son of a more prosperous childhood friend and, ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more