Breakdown by Cathy Sweeney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers comes a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation, and one woman's decision to leave everything behind. One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in her suburban home, and without co ...Show more
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lar ...Show more
The Future by Naomi Alderman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future--as the richest people on the planet have discovered--is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the worl ...Show more
The Sisterhood by Katherine Bradley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Vox meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this feminist retelling of 1984. In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one has. Julia is the seemingly perfect example of what women in Oceania should be: dutiful, useful, subservient, meek. But Julia hides a secret ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
Animal People(Prize winner People's Choice 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) by Charlotte Wood
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Why I can't review Animal People. 'I read Charlotte Wood's novel Animal People twice. I think it's one of the best contemporary novels I have read. But I cannot review it. I tried a number of times and failed each time. I only recently realised why this is. I don't want to review Animal People. I want t ...Show more
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What do we know, really, about each other's private lives? Her life is so full, so why is she hungry? For Piglet, getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. And who could blame her, with a childhood nickname like that? Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss - effortless hosts, ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more
Day by Michael Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabe ...Show more
Medea by Rosie Hewlett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A dark and epic feminist retelling that boldly reclaims the myth of the most formidable and feared witch in Ancient Greece. Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All becau ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Internationally bestselling author Christy Lefteri returns with a dazzling new novel, about one family struggling to recover from trauma, set against the backdrop of the forest fires of Greece. This morning, I met the man who started the fire. You see, he was the one who took it all away, all of life a ...Show more