The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a baggin ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, fr ...Show more
Hospital (PB) by Sanya Rushdi
$26.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med ...Show more
The Boat by Nam Le
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le's The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world.Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an aging painter mourning the de ...Show more
The Work by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The intersections between art, life, power and privilege are explored in this first work of fiction from the bestselling author of Eggshell Skull. Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying off. Pat is a scholarship boy desperate to establish himse ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
We Will Live and Then We Will See: Collected Stories: 2024 by Warwick Sprawson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A truck breaks down in an outback town. A son travels to Japan to give away his father's flute. A retired Russian coal miner sells his most valued possession. An aspiring author rages at his publisher. Two Finnish tourists take on the Guatemalan jungle. A Sudanese refugee recounts his harrowing journey ...Show more
You Are Here by David Nicholls
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone.Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. ...Show more
Small Hours by Bobby Palmer
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg. If you stood before sunrise in this wild old place, looking through the trees into the garden...You'd see a father and son, a fox standing between them. You wouldn't know that Jack has returned ...Show more
The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Imagining a near future Australia that is all too disturbingly familiar, The Mother Fault is an addictive thriller, a heart-pounding adventure and a moving portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to save her family. 'A triumph of a novel. Five stars. I loved it. Thrilling, confronting, page-turning an ...Show more
River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy #2) by Amitav Ghosh
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Ibis Trilogy | Reading Level: General Adult
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the ...Show more