Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work' Observer 'A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of THE GREAT GATSBY' New York Times A deeply personal novel of identi ...Show more
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As they look to the stars, what are they missing back home? The best of Helen Kane exists in space. If she doesn't go back up, she'll be consigned to a lesser version of herself on a planet that has also seen better days. Helen is an experienced astronaut with a NASA position and a struggling grown-up d ...Show more
The Silk House by Kayte Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Weaving. Healing. Haunting. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret... Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year ...Show more
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels Can squirrels speak? Do snails scream? Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the adv ...Show more
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2020. The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of ex ...Show more
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the publication of Clarice Lispector's collected stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose ...Show more
The Accused (Theodore Boone #3) by John Grisham
$14.99 AUD
$16.99 (11% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Theodore Boone
Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. He certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But then his bike is vandalised, he's attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. When stolen computer equipment tu ...Show more
Night Sleep Death the Stars by Joyce Carol Oates
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in st ...Show more
Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
When a photographer captures Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl in one frame at a party in Berlin in 1928, no one realizes the extent to which their lives will reflect the tumultuous decades that follow. Marlene crosses the Atlantic to find fame in Hollywood, the town that eats out of ...Show more
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
This months-long New York Times bestseller is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page," (O, The Oprah Magazine). AFTER FOUR HARROWING YEARS ON THE WESTERN Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janu ...Show more
The Pull of the Stars (TPB) by Emma Donoghue
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two o ...Show more
Loyalties by Delphine de Vigan
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Adults are as lost as the children they should be protecting, in this compelling exploration of the destructive secrets and loyalties that are kept behind closed doors 'Packs a hefty emotional punch. It reminded me of Leila Slimani's terrific Lullaby' - Bookseller 'Narrated with punch and pace. You're ...Show more