Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The International Bestseller for lovers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Satoshi Yagisawa
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and jo ...Show more
The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
"Comic, dirty and delightful. And one of those books which reveals its quality from the first line" V S Naipaul
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
$34.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The powerful and moving new novel from international bestselling author Isabel Allende, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler ...Show more
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'The funniest, most poignant novel of the year' - Vogue For fans of Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, Disorientation is an uproarious and big-hearted satire - alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast of unforgettable characters - that asks: who gets to tell our stories? Ingrid Yang is desperate ...Show more
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopa ...Show more
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
$21.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the sa ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
The Mud of a Century by Yūka Ishii
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Yūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.Several days after a once-in-a-century flood moves through the Indian city of Chennai, choking the Adyar River with the titular mud, a Japanese woman contracted to an IT compa ...Show more
Apples Never Fall: TV Tie-In by Liane Moriarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The bestselling title from Liane Moriarty will be hitting the small screens, with Annette Benning and Sam Neill in the lead roles. From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. Now that Joy and Stan have sold the family business they have all the time in the world to lear ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more
Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
SS officer Julius Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before an official concert. Unsure which among the decorative statues is Mendelssohn, he tells his men to remove the statue with the biggest nose. Unfortunately, ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more