The Dry by Jane Harper
$22.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Series: Aaron Falk | Reading Level: very good
WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY? It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six- ...Show more
The Power by Naomi Alderman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION** What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ...Show more
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 One of the world's great writers venturing into exciting new territory - a heartbreaking, visceral novel about a stand-up comedian WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audie ...Show more
Their Brilliant Careers: The Lives of Sixteen Remarkable Australian Writers by Ryan O'Neill
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award Absurd, original and highly addictive . . . In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret source of th ...Show more
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
#1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times ...Show more
The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary
'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing ...' Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all th ...Show more
Home in the Rain (HB) by Bob Graham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
Abandoned by the priestess of the island at birth, Aissa is an outcast, surviving by her wits - until she joins the acrobatic bull dancers who are sent away to compete on the island of the Bull King. A gripping and powerful adventure by acclaimed author Wendy Orr. There are two ways of looking at Aissa' ...Show more
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH A masterpiece ' Zadie Smith Extraordinary ' Daily Mail Breathtaking ' Observe rA tour de force ' The Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, abou ...Show more
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do.'..Arky Swann is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has made him promise to keep a terrible secret. One day he finds his way ...Show more
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angel ...Show more
Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
Outside, the rain continues unceasing; silver sheets sluicing down, the trees and shrubs soaking and bedraggled, the earth sodden, puddles overflowing, torrents coursing onwards, as the darkness slowly softens with the dawn. Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogs the anxietie ...Show more
Common People by Tony Birch
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In this unforgettable new collection Tony Birch brings alive a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories explore the lives of common people caught up in the everyday business of living and the struggle to survive. From a young girl who is gifted to a middle-class ...Show more