Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Looking for a summer read with bite?'BRILLIANT' Stylist'TERRIFICALLY ALIVE' Observer'DELICIOUSLY UNTAMED' FT'COOLLY INCISIVE' Guardian'UNHOLY' Carmen Maria Machado'THE SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO ANGELA CARTER' Evening StandardOne day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly somet ...Show more
Things We Bury by Matthew Ryan Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime
Three siblings, reunited in their home town, are struggling to deal with the fallout of a car crash that almost killed their father. This, on top of everything else life is throwing at them. Josh is trying to save his marriage and hard-won TV career in the wake of a painfully public sexual harassment s ...Show more
The Strays by Emily Bitto
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In The Strays, Evan Trentham is the wild child of the Melbourne art world of the 1930s. He and his captivating wife, Helena, attempt to carve out their own small niche, to escape the stifling conservatism they see around them, by gathering together other like-minded artists. They create a utopian circle ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stew ...Show more
Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son Owen for time to w ...Show more
Small Things Like These (HB) by Claire Keegan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020)It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces i ...Show more
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
My best friend wore her name, Esther, like a queen wearing her crown at a jaunty angle. We were twelve years old when she went missing. On a sweltering Friday afternoon in Durton, best friends Ronnie and Esther leave school together. Esther never makes it home. Ronnie's going to find her, she has a plan ...Show more
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 learn how to 'relax'. Their four adult children are busy living their own lives, and while it could be argued they never quite achieved the ...Show more
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human con ...Show more
Vernon Subutex Two by Virginie Despentes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench in the parc des Buttes Chau ...Show more
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The heartbreaking follow-up to the million copy bestseller, The Beekeeper of Aleppo. 'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class.' - Jodi Picoult 'Will break your heart and open your eyes' - Heather Morris, author of The Ta ...Show more
A Sunday in Ville d'Avray by Dominique Barbéris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This atmospheric novel plunges us into the folds of our own emotions thanks to a richly evocative style. It has the troubling melancholy of Modiano's novels and the charm of Rohmer's films.' - Gael It's a Sunday in early September and a woman is going to visit her sister in the suburbs outside Paris. ...Show more