Luster by Raven Leilani
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2021The Sunday Times Bestseller'A book of pure fineness, exceptional.' Diana Evans, Guardian'Leilani's live-wire sentences are a giddy joy, crafted with mischievous perfection.' Mail on SundayEdie is just trying to survive. She's messing up in her dead-end ad ...Show more
The Covered Wife by Lisa Emanuel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
I think I have been here like this still, but awake; quiet, but wound tight as a spring shoved into a box since I lay down, not long after dark. But I must have slept, slept then woken, shifted from blessed nothingness to tortured waiting. Sarah is a smart, young lawyer working endless hours when she fa ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that's the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader - and catches the eye of driven, handsome an ...Show more
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a mother–daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control. One hundred days. It’s no time at all, she tells me. But she’s not the one waiting. In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls preg ...Show more
La Fanfarlo by Edward K. Kaplan (Translator); Charles Baudelaire
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Art of the Novella Ser.
A stunning new translation of a neglected masterpiece by one of history's most celebrated writers. Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil, the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: La Fanfarlo. The novella describes the torrid real-life affair th ...Show more
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Susan Bernofsky
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a hidden closet, all set within a beautiful garden. But the land on which he builds has a dark history of vi ...Show more
Exposition by Nathalie Leger (Author) , Amanda DeMarco (Translated by) , Cecile Menon (Edited by
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful novel about the shared grief of a Palestinan and an Israeli. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i ...Show more
The Thursday Murder Club (#1) by Richard Osman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Thursday Murder Club 1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might b ...Show more
A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Delicious' Nigella Lawson 'Clever and beguiling' Guardian 'Sublime and immersive' Jojo Moyes Erica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It's the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sun-baked Greek island of Hydra where she is swept up in a circle of bohemian poets, painters, musicians, writers and ar ...Show more
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more