Sea Change by Gina Chung
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus ...Show more
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite ...Show more
Max Gate by Damien Wilkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"A witty and sentient writer"--LA Times "Wilkins can command a breathtakingly supple literary style"--The New York Times 1928: Thomas Hardy is dying in the upstairs room of Max Gate, the house he built in his beloved Dorset. Downstairs, his literary friends are locked in a bitter fight with loca ...Show more
Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
In Search of a Reputation - Bastien-Lepage by Neil Miley (Preface by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The book traces an art student's search for a reputation in the years following the War of 1870. France is in political and financial turmoil, the student struggles to find his way in a changing landscape that insists on art being part of the political progress to ensure the survival of a Republican for ...Show more
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...Show more
The Madonna Secret by Sophie Strand
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
Mary Magdalene's confessions reveal a sensual world of love and betrayal, magic and mystery, hidden within the Gospels Reroots Mary Magdalene and Jesus in the lush ecology and complex spiritual culture of Second Temple Period Judea and Galilee under Roman rule Rewilds the Gospels with the forg ...Show more
Dietland by Sarai Walker
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
'Part Fight Club, part feminist manifesto, an offbeat and genre-bending novel that aims high - and delivers.' - Kirkus Review'Sarai Walker has written a call to arms. Devious, subversive, delightful, Dietlandis a Scum Manifesto set to a pop music beat, and Plum Kettle is a feminist hero for the modern a ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E. Braddon
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Barrister Robert Audley is suspicious. His friend George Talboys recently returned a rich man from the goldfields of colonial Australia but is shattered to find that the wife he left behind has died. Now George has vanished, leaving only a note saying that he's returned to Australia. Fearing foul play, ...Show more
The Gentle Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal; Paul Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's homage to Vladimír Boudník, one of the greatest Czech visual artists of the 1950s and 1960s, whose life came to a tragic end shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968. Boudnik and Hrabal had a close and often contentious friendship. For a brief period, in the ear ...Show more
Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with husband Andre and son Simon. Their elderly neighbour, Elizabeth, has an accident and her granddaughter, Jodie comes to nurse her. So the players are assembled for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty.