The Fish by Lloyd Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Mister Pip comes a poetic, dreamlike novel for fans of Max Porter's Lanny and the works of George Saunders.When his troubled sister's baby is born, in a shabby caravan at a remote beach park, he is not like other babies. Not the kind of baby anyone expected- sta ...Show more
Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Melissa Fu portrays the time, the culture, the place and the struggles of this family so vividly, with nuance and colour and life . . . A stunning achievement' CHRISTY LEFTERI, AUTHOR OF THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO 'An immersive, expertly plotted and elegantly written novel . . . championing the vitality ...Show more
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A bold and lyrical novel about memory, love, a swimming pool - and the many ways we lose and find each other again. From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the AtticUp above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, ...Show more
Ancestry - A Novel by Simon Mawer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... N ...Show more
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a former citizen and a climate ...Show more
Collected Stories by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Collected Stories, with a cover by Michael Leunig Collected Stories combines the brilliant, bizarre, funny, chilling pieces originally published in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes (plus three stories not in either). Those from Fat Man posit what-ifs, with ...Show more
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A hilarious and heartwarming New York Times bestselling novel--now a major motion picture "This 48-karat beach read is crazy fun." --Entertainment Weekly When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and qual ...Show more
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: LEFT NEGLECTED
One typical morning, Sarah Nickerson, a woman in her mid-thirties, is late for work, racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school and daycare. She tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when she takes her eye off the road for a second too long. In that blink of an eye, all th ...Show more
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
1996 - Cabramatta, Sydney. 'Just let him go.' Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. T ...Show more
The Lost Song of Paris by Sarah Steele
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!!!! THIS BOOK MUST BE READ!!' Real Reader 'I loved it' Real Reader 'A fantastic read. I was gripped and enthralled. Wonderful storytelling' JILL MANSELL'Fascinating, moving, romantic and utterly gripping. I couldn't stop reading once I'd started' KATIE FFOR ...Show more
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely ma ...Show more
A Colder War by Charles Cumming
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Thomas Kell | Reading Level: very good
Internationally acclaimed as "a premier writer of espionage thrillers" (USA Today), Charles Cumming is "among the most skillful spy novelists" (Washington Post) and "a worthy successor to the masters...like John le Carr and Len Deighton" (Chicago Sun-Times). Now, with A COLDER WAR, Cumming returns with ...Show more