A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Flamingo Originals Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daugh ...Show more
Exit A: A Novel by Anthony Swofford
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Anthony Swofford's memoir of serving as a US marine in the Gulf War was an international sensation, made into an acclaimed film by director Sam Mendes. A meditation on manhood and masculinity, Jarhead rapidly established itself as a classic piece of war literature. Suffused with the same intensity of em ...Show more
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
This novel, told from the viewpoints of four Chinese mothers and their four American-Chinese daughters, examines the nature of the mother-daughter relationship, and the problems of cultural identity the characters face.
Actress by Anne Enright
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
'Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller' The TimesFrom the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as told b ...Show more
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find ...Show more
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The four Flattery sisters - Olwen, Nell, Maeve and Rhona - were left to cobble together their own makeshift adolescence after the death of both their parents. Decades later, all four of them have found success in their respective fields, all of them boasting PhDs and, in Nell's case, a healthy clutch o ...Show more
Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A bold, unsettling, and heart-breaking story about race, belonging and the legacies of violence Salome was bullied for years and no one did a single thing to help her. One day she finally snapped. Now at just sixteen years old, she's being held in a secure unit for young offenders Salome's counsellor, ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more
The Four by Ellie Keel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
ONE SECRET COULD DESTROY THEM ALL Powerful. Sinister. Heart-wrenching. Unmissable. We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms.The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege.It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed Genevieve out ...Show more
Day One by Abigail Dean
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
*The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of Girl A* Stonesmere will never be the same again… When a lone gunman enters a primary school in a beautiful Lake District town, the effects of the tragedy radiate through idyllic Stonesmere with devastating consequences. At the epicentre of the ...Show more