How to be Remembered by Michael Thompson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Everybody wants to leave a legacy - through their children, their work or the difference they make in others' lives. But what if you were prevented? What if no-one even remembered you? How far would you go to make your mark on the world? Some lives are simply unforgettable... On an ordinary night in an ...Show more
Things She Would Have Said Herself by Catherine Therese
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For those who loved Olive Kitteridge and Boy Swallows Universe comes a darkly funny, deeply moving novel told with breathtaking originality and dazzling talent. Leslie Bird loves being a wife and mother but loathes her husband and children. The only person she ever loved was born dead. Meet Leslie Bird, ...Show more
Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Sunny,its former proprietor and the new owner of the Screaming Peacock Vineyard in the Pacific Northwest. But can she handle the challenges of life on her own?Yazmina,the young mother who now runs the cafe, until a terrifying event strikes at the heart of her family, and business . . .LaylaandKat, two A ...Show more
The Vegetarian - A Novel by Deborah Smith; Han Kang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023 and WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2016: an exhilarating, unsettling modern classic about patriarchy and rebellion, eroticism and the body, and one woman's desire for another mode of existence.
Tremor by Teju Cole
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The new novel from the author of the celebrated Open City - a powerful and masterful exploration of what makes a meaningful life in a world of violence and wonder.
The Desert Knows Her Name by Lia Hills
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
In this stunning, lyrical novel of nature and history, a girl walks out of the desert and shakes a community to its core. Listen deeply now, if you remember how and why. On a hot October afternoon, a girl walks barefoot out of the Wimmera desert, near the small town of Gatyekarr. She finds sanctuary wit ...Show more
A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. 'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an Ameri ...Show more
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothe ...Show more
The Loudness of Unsaid Things by Hilde Hinton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
If you loved BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOST AND FOUND, you will love this debut novel. A stunning story about family, loneliness and isolation that will make you laugh, cry and be a bit kinder to those who are lost. 'My heart grew, then broke, then mended itself. A wise, funny, brave novel and a story ...Show more
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shortlisted for Palestine Book Award Nahr has been confined to the Cube- nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The wor ...Show more
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Naïve Evangeline lost her position as a governess and her grip on her destiny when she found herself pregnant out of wedlock. After spending months in Newgate prison, she doesn't know whether she should be grateful or despairing when she is moved to a prison ship. What she does know is that her child wi ...Show more
Alchemy and Rose by Sarah Maine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s 1866. Will Stewart is one of many who have left their old lives behind to seek their fortunes in New Zealand's last great gold rush. The conditions are hostile and t ...Show more