See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill
$36.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$22.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
Transit (Outline trilogy #2) by Rachel Cusk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront asp ...Show more
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest wh ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words o ...Show more
H is for Hawk (The Birds and Bees) by Helen Macdonald
$24.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
The Birds and the Beesseries was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world.As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of trainin ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. I ...Show more
This is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships by Matthew Fray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
A thoughtful, down-to-earth, contemporary guide to help partners identify and address relationship-killing behaviour patterns in their own lives. 'This Is How Your Marriage Ends is the book we have been waiting for - an entertaining, honest, and truly practical guide for saving our relationships' - Just ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
Far from the Tree: Parents, children and the search for identity by Andrew Solomon
$27.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Sometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does? Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, A ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates she will, like all dissenters, be hanged or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men whose future she will change forever ...Show more