Tom Lake (HB) by Ann Patchett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared b ...Show more
Too Much Lip: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award by Melissa Lucashenko
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The darkly funny, unforgettable winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary AwardToo much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise ...Show more
Unbranded (First Nations Classics) by Herb Wharton, Kev Carmody
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Written by the legendary Queensland drover Herb Wharton, this is a striking vision of outback Australia- the friendship story of three stockmen working on mulga country in the far west.Herb Wharton, former drover, now celebrated author, unleashes a strikingly original vision of outback Australia- from t ...Show more
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma (translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them?This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their chi ...Show more
Where I Slept by Libby Angel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A striking, lyrical work of autofiction that follows a struggling artist living on the margins in 1990s Melbourne. When he asks what kind of work I do, I tell him I am a poet.'Poetry will break your heart,' he says.'Or, perhaps it is the only thing that won't,' I say. In this startling work of autofic ...Show more
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The INSTANT Sunday Times Bestseller: 'Emezi is a dream of a writer. My heart soared and shook and panted.' Bolu Babalola Have you fallen for this INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING novelist's sizzling hot entrance into the world of romance? It's the opportunity of a lifetime: Feyi is about to be given the chanc ...Show more
You have a friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND 2022 WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE-SHORTLISTED GREAT CIRCLE'The same chilling brilliance of Daphne du Maurier's most unsettling short fiction' FINANCIAL TIMES'Has an innate charm of its own. Beautifully realised' DAILY MAIL'It's a rare writer who can create ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
A Million Things by Emily Spurr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For as long as Rae can remember, it's been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable, family. They have their walks, their cooking routines, their home. Sometimes Mum disappears for a while to clear her head but Rae is okay with this, because Mum always comes back. So, whe ...Show more
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen a ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?;;Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for ...Show more
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
If monsters are real, so are the women who defeat them. Ava Reid's YA dark academic fantasy is The Hazel Wood meets A Deadly Education.FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMANIf the monsters are real, so are the women who defeat them.Effy has always believed in fairy tales. ...Show more