Antarctica by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged si ...Show more
Mixtape - Stories and Essays about The 1980s by Simon Castles
$22.50 AUD
Category: Short Stories
In the 1980s there was a kind of magic to the mixtape. They could be anything its creator wanted. The mixtape was like a letter, but it was also a personal soundtrack. You wanted it to say something about you - to express in some abstract way how you felt about the world, life, hopes, dreams and love. T ...Show more
Feast by Emily O'Grady
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yellow House. Three women. Three secrets. One weekend. Alison is an actress who no longer acts, Patrick a musician past his prime. The eccentric couple live an isolated, debauched existence in an old manor ho ...Show more
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
There were things that I wanted to say. Things I knew I couldn't say but needed to tell someone. And then the things I knew I should say. What they wanted to hear. There is never only one version. Novelist JB Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. He ...Show more
Happening by Annie Ernaux
$21.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. I ...Show more
Pebbled Beach At Pentecost by Andrew Lemon
$29.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Vernon Lee Walker, a young Englishman from industrial Wolverhampton, meets his death on a beach on Pentecost Island in the South Pacific on the eve of Christmas 1887. Why did Vernon die, in what circumstances, and who was responsible? Was he, as once branded, simply a ‘bad colonist’? Or was he a Candid ...Show more
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'Electrifying' COLSON WHITEHEAD 'Absolutely unforgettable' ROXANE GAY What we saw in those moments riveted us, and then it set us free In a time of rolling blackouts and terrible storms battering America, the neighbourhood of 1st Street, Charlottesville is attacked by violent white supremacists. Famil ...Show more
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Don Tillman | Reading Level: very good
Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (#1) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Tales from the Café #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her fath ...Show more