Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A witty exploration of family, money, love and heartbreak. THE MUST-READ DEBUT OF 2023 This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan- one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connec ...Show more
The Bell of the World by Gregory Day
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything they do on the farm, Sarah and her uncle form an inspi ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry (TVTI) by Bonnie Garmus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Apple TV + tie-in of the multi-million-copy No. 1 Sunday Times, No. 1 New York Times and No. 1 international bestseller and prizewinner THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES, #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The multi-million copy bestseller As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime Winner of the Goodreads Cho ...Show more
The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now the streets of Berlin are draped in swastikas and Hannah is no longer welcome in the places she once considered home. A glimmer of hope appears in the shape of the St Louis, a transatlantic liner that promises Jews safe passage to ...Show more
Crossings (TPB) by Alex Landragin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
I didn't write this book. I stole it...A Parisian bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript containing three stories, each as unlikely as the other.The first, 'The Education of a Monster', is a letter penned by the poet Charles Baudelaire to an illiterate girl. The second, 'City of Ghosts', is a noir roma ...Show more
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend ...Show more
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent pa ...Show more
Bluebird by Malcolm Knox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones' - The Guardian A stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian beachside suburb. A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prim ...Show more
Going Under by Sonia Henry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A compelling eye-opener written by one who clearly knows.' Judy Nunn, bestselling author of Sanctuary Dr Katarina 'Kitty' Holliday thought once she finished medical school and found gainful employment at one of Sydney's best teaching hospitals that her dream was just beginning. The hard years, she thoug ...Show more
The Performance by Claire Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The breakout literary sensation of 2021, THE PERFORMANCE is a tightly woven examination of women's inner lives that is enthralling, profound and deeply human. The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the ne ...Show more
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This is a stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from "Catcher in the Rye" to "The Secret History". Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with im ...Show more
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. ...Show more