The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightne ...Show more
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
If you let it - if you listen - a book could change your life. After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can hear objects talking- teapots, marbles and sharpened pencils, babbling in anger or distress. His mother, struggling to support their household alone, starts collecting things to give her comfort. ...Show more
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octoge ...Show more
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Practical Magic Ser.
Filled with secrets and splendour and light and dark - it casts a spell' Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library The Owens family finally confronts the curse that has marked their family for centuries in the thrilling and unforgettable conclusion to the beloved Practical Magic series The Owens famil ...Show more
Permafrost: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by SJ Norman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
This brilliant collection of short fiction explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing. Inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations - from small-to ...Show more
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Bursting with life, charm and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from a master storyteller. Emmett returns home to pick-up his little brother Billy, tie-up his late father’s estate and get out of town for good. Since leaving the Kansas youth f ...Show more
A Dream Life by Claire Messud
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family finds their life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must fin ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard's gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours, ex-wives who just won't leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered cha ...Show more
Pure Gold by John Patrick McHugh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
‘One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' Sally Rooney ‘Dark, funny, honest and engrossing' Roddy Doyle ‘Refreshing and ambitious' Lisa McInerny ‘Full of stylish brio' Colin Barrett Pure Gold heralds the arrival of a vibrant new literary voice Love. You had to scrap for love. In th ...Show more
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: A Key To All Mythologies 1 | Reading Level: very good
Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads – the first instalment of the trilogy A Key to All Mythologies – is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years A Daily M ...Show more
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is 2019 in America, All Souls Day, when the borderline that separates the living from the dead is most porous. Recently released from a decades-long prison sentence, Tookie - a headstrong and deeply wronged Ojibwe woman with a chequered past - must make a life for herself in a changed, charged world. ...Show more
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
‘Harrowing and heartening in equal measure, this book is a breathtaking tale of racial fissures, fury and friendship' David Lammy, MP and author of Tribes ‘A powerful story about friendship, race, love, forgiveness, and justice – and the stunning ways they intersect…Empathetic, riveting, and authentic' ...Show more