Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian author
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A riveting novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She's Not There.Olivia McAfee and Ava Campanello have each had a change of life forced upon them. Olivia never d ...Show more
The Cows (TP) by Dawn O'Porter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Fearlessly frank and funny, the debut adult novel from Dawn O'Porter needs to be talked about. COW [n.] /kau/ A piece of meat; born to breed; past its sell-by-date; one of the herd. Women don't have to fall into a stereotype. THE COWS is a powerful novel about three women. In all the noise of modern lif ...Show more
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever h ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay.Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Winner by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. An unforgettable story of artistry and unity under occupation. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with a ...Show more
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Popular Penguins by Mark Twain
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
By witnessing a murder, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn find themselves in a series of adventures that lead them to some frightening situations.
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$32.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: good
'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, ...Show more
Fireflies in Flight (The Towers, #2) by Mette Jakobsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Towers
With the intensity of The Handmaid's Tale, the drama of Divergent and the political intrigue of The Darkest Minds series, this is a captivating, fast-paced thriller set in a dystopian world not so different from our own. Ally is on the run.The city is in ruins. Her friends are in mortal danger.Nothing a ...Show more
A Stranger in My Street by Deborah Burrows
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's January 1943. Australia is at war and Perth is buzzing. US troops have permanently docked in the city in what local men refer to bitterly as the American occupation, and Perth women are having the time of their lives. The Americans have money, accents like movie stars, smart tailored uniforms a ...Show more