Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come . . . A stellar debut' - Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Red at the Bone Joan can't change her family's past. But she can create her future. Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle ...Show more
Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In Venice, Frances Croy is working to leave the previous year behind: another novel published to little success, a scathing review she can't quite manage to forget, and, most of all, the real reason behind her self-imposed exile from London: the incident at the Savoy.Sequestered within an aging palazzo, ...Show more
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls 'one of his generation's most original writers'. 'A masterpiec ...Show more
Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'An extraordinary debut' (ANN PATCHETT) A coming-of-age story and an immersive love story. Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their ...Show more
The Art of Falling by Danielle McLaughlin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES AUDIBLE SHORT STORY AWARD'A gripping novel and a sharp, entertaining examination of the nature of art and its power to inspire and corrupt' Roddy DoyleNessa McCormack's marriage is coming back together again after her husband's affair. She is excited to be in charge of a retro ...Show more
These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Salma El-Wardany deftly reveals searing and poignant truths about the female experience' ASHLEY AUDRAIN They recognized that they were all existing in a perfect moment, and eventually it would have to end. Other times it felt like it would always be this way. These Impossible Things charts the dreams ...Show more
New Animal by Ella Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Ella Baxter's debut novel is drenched in sex and death . . . there's also much love . . . An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness to violence in an equal scale.' - Sydney Morning Herald. Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family's funeral parlour, doi ...Show more
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.
Square One by Nell Frizzell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The brilliantly funny and relatable debut novel from the author of The Panic Years. How is she supposed to keep up when she's back to square one? At thirty-two, Hanna Markham is newly single just as all her friends are becoming proper adults, getting married and having babies - and unable to afford to ...Show more
The Cat Sanctuary by Patrick Gale
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An entertaining, warm and quirky novel of families, secrets and the truth of love - 'A powerful and moving novel' Independent on Sunday 'Engrossing . . . Gale is a charmingly idiosyncratic writer who could not write a cliché if he tried' Daily Telegraph Judith shares her life with her partner Joanna o ...Show more
This is Gonna End in Tears by Liza Klaussmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Growing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together, like they were keeping a secret. They needed each other. As teenagers, they drove to LA, lived in a ramshackle place on the beach in Malibu, set up a record label. They were successful, best friends and Olly and M ...Show more
At the Breakfast Table by Defne Suman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade. Prinkipo Island, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather for the 100th birthday of the famous artist Sirin Saka. It ...Show more