The Island of Missing Trees: Reese's Pick by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
Illuminations by Alan Moore
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Category: Contemporary
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality'NEIL GAIMAN'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONEIn his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years ...Show more
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Contemporary | Series: The MaddAddam Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some r ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
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Category: Contemporary
"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae ...Show more
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The Booker-longlisted novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize
Sex and Vanity: from the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE FABULOUS NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CRAZY RICH ASIANS When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish Capri wedding, she can’t stand him: He’s a mama’s boy. A self-righteous eco-warrior. A brooding weirdo that takes himself much too seriously. And no-one should look that good in ...Show more
The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde
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Category: Contemporary
Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they’re bound together by the tragic death of their parents. They agree on not quite everything. Art thinks people are incapable of making sensible decisions, especially when it comes to love. That’s what algorithms are for. Mimi knows her b ...Show more
Pretend I'm Dead by Jen Beagin
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Category: Contemporary
'THIS BOOK IS ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE ON ACID!' SARA WINGFIELD, GOODREADS Jen Beagin's brilliant, off-beat and deeply moving novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona - almost twenty-four, emotionally adrift and cleaning houses to get by. Volunteering for a needle-exchange programm ...Show more
Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J Morgan
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Category: Contemporary
It is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school and moves into a house in a run-down part of Leeds. Jude is a chaotic wild child who flirts with the wrong kind of people, drinks too much and gets stoned too often. Never happy to stay in one place for very long, he ...Show more
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
New York Times bestselling author Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968, the year of the Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to ...Show more
The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4 by Richard Osman
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Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Thursday Murder Club Ser.
'The rightful king of crime' i News'Deeply moving... some of his best writing yet' TelegraphShocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.As the gang springs into action they encounter art ...Show more