A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Author
A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller.
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER 2022 Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman's turbulent life So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or- he'd found Maggie.I had no wa ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightne ...Show more
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octoge ...Show more
The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Author
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a p ...Show more
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Practical Magic Ser.
Filled with secrets and splendour and light and dark - it casts a spell' Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library The Owens family finally confronts the curse that has marked their family for centuries in the thrilling and unforgettable conclusion to the beloved Practical Magic series The Owens famil ...Show more
Pure Gold by John Patrick McHugh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
‘One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' Sally Rooney ‘Dark, funny, honest and engrossing' Roddy Doyle ‘Refreshing and ambitious' Lisa McInerny ‘Full of stylish brio' Colin Barrett Pure Gold heralds the arrival of a vibrant new literary voice Love. You had to scrap for love. In th ...Show more
A Dream Life by Claire Messud
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family finds their life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must fin ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism. 'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.' Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upsi ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard's gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours, ex-wives who just won't leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered cha ...Show more
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown ...Show more