The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The debut memoir from a brilliant new voice in non-fiction - gloriously funny, bitingly well-observed and emotionally raw. ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Indecently entertaining' Guardian 'Hilarious' The Times I had no idea how to commit to another human being. I could barely commit to reading a mag ...Show more
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage b ...Show more
Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A breathtaking new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays. In the fall of 2011, a heartbroken young man flees Australia for the USA. Landing in the excessive, uncanny-familiar glamour and plenitude of New York City, Will makes a vow to say yes to everything that comes his way. By fate ...Show more
Tree Surgery for Beginners by Patrick Gale
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER, TREE SURGERY FOR BEGINNERS is a funny, elegant and eclectic novel of love, lies and the secrets we live with ' A very funny, often sad, erudite eclectic novel writ with style. Terrific' Time Out 'Excellent' The Times When Lawrence Frost wakes up on ...Show more
Violeta by Isabel Allende
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From Isabel Allende, the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea, this is the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth centuryOne extraordinary woman.One hundred years of history.One unforg ...Show more
The Furies: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Mandy Beaumont
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure tha ...Show more
Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The international No.1 bestselling author writes her first sequel starring her most beloved character - form an orderly line! Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a g ...Show more
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A celebration of the power of community, love forged in pain and the redemption that comes from deep kindness in the face of terrible loss. Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It's the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers Ladies' Night Dinne ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the world accessed through a screen. It's about where we go when existential threats loom and high-stakes reality claims us back. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof tha ...Show more
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Surreal and unsettling' OBSERVER CULTURAL HIGHLIGHT'Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable' ZEBA TALKHANI 'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind' SHARLENE TEO A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no re ...Show more
Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'An extraordinary debut' (ANN PATCHETT) A coming-of-age story and an immersive love story. Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their ...Show more
New Animal by Ella Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Ella Baxter's debut novel is drenched in sex and death . . . there's also much love . . . An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness to violence in an equal scale.' - Sydney Morning Herald. Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family's funeral parlour, doi ...Show more