What You Need From The Night by Laurent Petitmangin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'One of the most exquisite debuts I've read' Daily Telegraph 'Affecting and haunting' Observer After the death of his wife, a father in a forgotten corner of France raises his two sons alone. But their town is not one of opportunity, and the boys are heading down different paths. Gillou sets his sight ...Show more
Where The Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thunder-ing waves crashing on unseen shores. Spanning four generations, with a focus on the 1960s and 70s, an era of rapid social change and burgeoning Aboriginal rights, Where the Fruit Falls is a re-imagining of the ...Show more
White Gardenia by Belinda Alexandra
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In a district of the city of Harbin a haven for White Russian families since Russia's Communist revolution Alina Kozlova must make a heartbreaking decision if her only child Anya is to survive the final days of World War II. White Gardenia sweeps across cultures and continents from the glamorous nightcl ...Show more
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Deali ...Show more
Whitethorn by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people frantically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six year ...Show more
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years #1) by Gregory Maguire
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: The Wicked Years
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fan ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more
Wildflowers by Peggy Frew
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forget, from the award-winning author of Islands. They were still who they always had been, still those sisters, but on this afternoon, in this car, driving with the windows down between cane fields under a de ...Show more
Willowman by Inga Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Inga Simpson brings all her craft and sensitivity to a story that has never been told, and now that she has done it, it feels like this was a story that was needing to be told. With her art, Inga joins the likes of Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy in the vanguard of cricket's exciting new rev ...Show more
Wish: Text Classics by Peter Goldsworthy
$12.95 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Text Classics
'I'm not deaf, but I've always felt more at home in Sign. Both my parents are deaf. Deaf as posts. Deaf as adders, deaf as beetles. And proud as peacocks, Deaf Pride long before there was a word, or a sign, for it. I learnt to speak with my hands from birth; there was no other way of reaching my parents ...Show more
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the c ...Show more
Women by Charles Bukowski
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: CB
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sud ...Show more