Parisian Lives by Deirdre Bair
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning autho ...Show more
Man Raises Boy: A Revolutionary Approach for Fathers who Want to Raise Kind, Confident and Happy Sons by Rob Sturrock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Parenting & Family
Written from the front line of fatherhood, journalist Rob Sturrock grapples with the daily challenges of raising boys who can thrive in the current era. A book from the front lines of modern fatherhood.Welcome to Rob Sturrock's journey into parenting. Since the birth of his daughter, Rob has been passio ...Show more
Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A brilliantly original debut about a love affair cut short, and how lonely it is to live inside a secret -- for fans of Sally Rooney, Sheila Heti, and Ottessa Moshfegh. Ana Kelly can deal with death. As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of her day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informin ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pit ...Show more
The Smart Wife - Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot by Yolande Strengers; Jenny Kennedy
$49.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us ...Show more
The Family Doctor by Debra Oswald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A novel of searing emotional truth, told with the relentless pull of a thriller, from the award-winning creator of Offspring. he Family Doctor is a compelling thriller - fast-paced, gripping and frightening. But is more than that because it is a story that draws desperately needed attention to domestic ...Show more
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (TP) by Judith Brett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
It's compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake stalls at polling stat ...Show more
The Truth About Her by Jacqueline Maley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? An absorbing, moving, ruefully tender, witty and wise novel of marriage, motherhood and the paths we navigate through both, for fans of Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler. Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a pho ...Show more
Lanny by Max Porter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes a dark, playful, propulsive novel about an ethereal young boy who attracts the attention of a mythical, menacing force. There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, red-bric ...Show more
Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies by Stephanie Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a former architect turned farmer she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, loving, truthful. They talk about the future. She fal ...Show more
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic sal ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Diaries
The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a great w ...Show more