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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A masterpiece' Guardian A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the i ...Show more
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi
In 2075, the Moon is no longer a penal colony. But it is still a prison... Life isn't easy for the political dissidents and convicts who live in the scattered colonies that make up lunar civilisation. Everything is regulated strictly, efficiently and cheaply by a central supercomputer, HOLMES IV. When h ...Show more
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of 'The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Final Solution'. What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska -- and not Israel -- had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Aly ...Show more
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: S.f. Masterworks
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own ...Show more
Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece by Daniel Keyes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Ch ...Show more
His Dark Materials Bind-Up (HB) by Philip Pullman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available in a stunning omnibus edition with a new cover by acclaimed illustrator Chris Wormell. Since the first volume was published in 1995, the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. The Bo ...Show more
Jurassic Park (PB) by Michael Crichton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Before seeing Jurassic Worldfilm this June read the original, multimillion copy No. 1 bestselling thriller that inspired the first major motion picture Jurassic Park.On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park.An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosau ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualiti ...Show more
Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag #1) by China Mieville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: Bas-Lag
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos c ...Show more
The Second Sleep: From the Sunday Times bestselling author by Robert Harris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE LATEST NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS: chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and Express WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST? _____________________________________ 'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Fo ...Show more
The Stand by Stephen King
$22.99 AUD
Category: Horror
Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadA patient escapes from a bi ...Show more
The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, The Vegetarian is a beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invas ...Show more