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
Bone Season (#1 Bone Season) by Samantha Shannon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Bone Season
A dreamer who can start a revolution For the past two hundred years the Scion government has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in London. Clairvoyance in all its forms has been decreed a criminal offence, and those who practise it viciously punished. Forced underground, a clairvoyant unde ...Show more
A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A Dog's Purpose - the #1 New York Times bestseller-is heading to the big screen Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose, from director Lasse Hallstr m (The Cider House Rules, Dear John, The 100-Foot Journey), shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog ...Show more
The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
A Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Best Book of the Year Growing up as brothers in a small town in Pakistan, Jeo and Mikal were inseparable; however as adults their paths have diverged sharply. Jeo is newly married and a dedicated medical student, while Mikal, in love with a woman he can't have, has ado ...Show more
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration. Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Fa ...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
Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'In the same vein as Rosalie Ham, Brinsden weaves a compelling story of country Australia with all its stigmas, controversy and beauty.' Fleur McDonald Elise, a beautiful and artistic, if slightly brittle, city girl is rudely transplanted to the undulating, unforgiving plains of the Mallee when her husb ...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
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
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