Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
A stunning debut novel from the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. 'Hannan's Kokomo is a sharply observed novel of one woman's facade and how it falls; an undoing that is both ordinary and compelling. This debut heralds an exciting new Australian voice with a ...Show more
Loner by Georgina Young
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Loner is a book about drifting. About having been good at school and seemingly destined for great things but, once thrust into the structureless maelstrom of the adult world, simply... stalling. Stalling, and waiting, and doing not much of anything except feeling a lot of things. And then maybe watching ...Show more
The Fogging by Luke Horton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A compelling tale of the slow disintegration of a relationship and the unravelling of a man. Tom and Clara are two struggling academics in their mid-thirties, who decide to take their first holiday in ten years. On the flight over to Indonesia, Tom experiences a debilitating panic attack, something he h ...Show more
The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In the first year of the doomed German invasion of Russia in WWII, a German military doctor, Paul Bauer, is assigned to establish a field hospital at Yasnaya Polyana - the former grand estate of Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of the classic War and Peace. There he encounters a hostile aristocratic Russia ...Show more
Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In 1895 Alfred Nobel rewrote his will and left his fortune made in dynamite and munitions to generations of thinkers. Since 1901 women have been honoured with Nobel Prizes for their scientific research twenty times, including Marie Curie twice. Spanning more than a century and ranging across the world, ...Show more
Revenge: murder in three parts by S.L. Lim
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Shortlisted for the 2021 Stella PrizeHighly Commended Fiction — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 'Before I go into my grave,' she says out loud, 'I will kill that man.'A brilliant new novel from the author of Real Differences. A family favour their son over their daughter. Shan attends universi ...Show more
Broken Rules and Other Stories by Barry Lee Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
These awards-listed, interlinked stories vividly capture the small, rarely spoken moments of our lives that reverberate with meaning, with darkness and with light. An adolescent son and his parents on their annual holiday at a Bournemouth guesthouse become intrigued with the glamour and otherness of an ...Show more
Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
The joyous, charming and utterly irresistible new novel from the author of mega-bestseller The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village At nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with ...Show more
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: good-very good
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wro ...Show more
The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she k ...Show more
Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
You will not recognise me, she thinks, when I find you. Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him – especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them ‘safe ...Show more
The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'A remarkable contemporary thriller - with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carré about it - but also a profound and compelling investigation of a hugely complex human predicament. Brilliantly observed, captivatingly written, grippingly narrated - a triumph' - William Boyd When John Dyer returns to Oxfor ...Show more