Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
<i>My father always said with a name like Kitty Hawke I'd surely fly away. He said my mother should have thought of that before she named me. It was the way on the island, time out of mind . . . Times have changed. </i> Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind ...Show more
The Wayward Sisters by Kate Hodges
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
1782. Nancy Lockaby is trying to salvage her reputation as an astronomer - left in tatters after a discredited discovery - when she receives a mysterious letter, inviting her to join Shakespeare scholar Caelan Malles at his crumbling house in Inverness.But at Blackthistle House, Nancy notices that Caela ...Show more
Golden Days by Caroline Barron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My NameBecky thought she'd left Zoe Golden and that summer far behind. Until now.Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Be ...Show more
Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A biting collection of stories from a bold new voice A young girl sees ghosts from her third eye, located where her belly button should be. A one-dimensional yellow man steps out of a cinema screen, hoping to lead a three-dimensional life. A journalist goes on assignment to report the latest food tre ...Show more
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The ...Show more
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who f ...Show more
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deepl ...Show more
The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Inspired by a real-life female spy, a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost. 1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operati ...Show more
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more
Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment, in very different ways, but each of them seems desti ...Show more
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. Dus ...Show more
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Hachette Essentials
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I ...Show more