To Paradise: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Hanya Yanagihara
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the author of the modern classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where ...Show more
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son -- by the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. 'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... T ...Show more
Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by TIME, The National, Nylon, Electric Literature, and Library Journal
Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A dark uncanny jolt of literary perfection. Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says her name (Marina), her doll's name (also Marina) and her age (seven). Her parents were killed in a car crash and now she lives in t ...Show more
Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Mourning a Breast was heralded as the first Chinese-language book to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagno ...Show more
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Horror & Ghost stories | Series: The Passage Trilogy | Reading Level: good-very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The end of the world was only the beginning. In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity de ...Show more
The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide ...Show more
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with ...Show more
Rebel by Rebecca Yarros
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Renegades Ser.
<h3> No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, sends readers on a nine-month cruise where everyone has to keep their head - and hearts - above water.</h3> __________________________________________ She's the only woman he wants, And the only one he can never touch ...Show more
Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here, iconoclast ...Show more
Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A stunning, deeply moving autobiographical novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in the Tiananmen Square protests. It is Beijing in the 1970s, and Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and younger brother in a small flat in a working-class area. Her grandmother is a fo ...Show more
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are in a state of unrest. Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mo ...Show more