The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hu ...Show more
The Worry Front by H. C. Gildfind
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Through a multitude of distinct voices, Gildfind's startling tales explore the absurd, macabre, surreal - and too-real - whilst wrestling with the irrevocable acts, immutable facts, and relentless uncertainties that lie at the dark heart of every life.
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT ' It is many years since God sent the Tribulation to punish the forebears for their sins, and in the rural settlement of Waknuk David Strorm's father decries any and all blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that David and his cousin Rosalind, have their own secre ...Show more
Dear Mrs Bird (#1 The Emmy Lake Chronicles) by A J Pearce
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Emmeline Lake 1 | Reading Level: very good
This charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about a young woman who longs to be a war correspondent and inadvertantly becomes a secret advice columnist is "a jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People)--for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac Girl ...Show more
Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece by Daniel Keyes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Ch ...Show more
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel from the author of Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writ ...Show more
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 . . . A glorious novel, meditative and special' Hannah Kent, author of BURIAL RITES Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in the final stages of a terminal illness. She ...Show more
BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Published as Beartown in USA
In a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret . . . Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the town is offered a bright new future. But it is all put in jeopardy by a sin ...Show more
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Lucy Barton #2
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Winner of The Story Prize - A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book - One of USA Today's top 10 ...Show more
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
The Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O'Flynn
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Ava Langdon is often not herself. Having fled her early life in New Zealand and endured the loss of her children, she now lives as a recluse in the Blue Mountains. Regarded by locals as a colourful eccentric, she dresses in men's clothes and fearlessly pursues her artistic path. All that matters to Ava ...Show more