A Perfect Day to be Alone by Nanae Aoyama
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tok ...Show more
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
She felt their eyes, all those executioners...Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023'The new maestro of dystopian lit has arrived' ...Show more
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land by Maggie MacKellar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home. In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. Combining pages of her diary, kept thro ...Show more
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
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Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
***SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING ANNE HATHAWAY AND NICHOLAS GALITZINE***TREAT YOURSELF WITH THIS SCORCHING HOT LOVE AFFAIR ABOUT THE MAN THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT . . .'THIS SLAYED ME' Taylor Jenkins Reid'IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THIS' 5***** Reader Review'SUMMER'S SAUCIEST, ...Show more
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie She will breathe a new empire into life - but all worlds can escape their ...Show more
Harlequin Butterfly by Toh EnJoe; David Boyd (Translator)
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Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction | Series: Japanese Novellas Ser.
A surreal novella about the global pursuit of a mysterious writer who somehow writes in dozens of languages, perfect for fans of David Mitchell and the work of Hideaki Anno This dizzying, witty literary caper about books and translation is a delightful work that will captivate and surprise readers, ...Show more
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot- a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us-or go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous ...Show more
Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
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Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more
Milking Time (PB) by Rachael Treasure
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
Connie Mulligan, daughter of a fourth-generation Tasmanian dairy farmer, feels like she doesn't belong. She's out of sorts, and out of step - with her family, her community and her time, and it feels like nothing she does is right. But the story of how Connie Mulligan takes back control of her story and ...Show more
The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. In the Edo Period, a samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen. In upstate New York, a formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in ...Show more
Blondie by Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Connor, Blondie, Z2 Comics
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary / Translated Fiction
Combining an imaginative take on an oral history of the band, interspersed with artistic interpretations of 10 songs from their catalog, BLONDIE: AGAINST THE ODDS captures the friction of NYC as the band fought their way to prominence, as well as the power and energy contained within the songs that fuel ...Show more