James by Percival Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhe ...Show more
The Vale Girl by Nelika McDonald
$18.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Fourteen-year-old Sarah Vale has gone missing in the small town of Banville. She's the daughter of the town whore so no one seems particularly concerned. No one cares except Tommy Johns, who loves Sarah Vale with all the unadulterated, tentative passion of a teenage boy. He galvanises the town's policem ...Show more
The Mark by Frida Isberg (translated by Larissa Kyzer)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the near future, in Reykjavik, in a world like our own, society is divided about the controversial Empathy Test, which measures an individual’s capacity for compassion and identifies anti-social behaviour in citizens. Two thirds of the country, including public servants and politicians, have undergon ...Show more
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Alan Murrin writes with the calm, poetic fluency of the best of Irish writers ... A stonkingly good novel. Just read it' SARAH WINMAN, bestselling author of Still Life 'It will no doubt be a bestseller' GILLIAN ANDERSON, GRAZIA It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette ...Show more
Dreaming In French by Vanessa McCausland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A remote French island. A crumbling villa. A reclusive film star. And an inheritance Saskia never expected. The stunning new novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beautiful Words. Saskia Wyle spent one sultry European summer on Île de Re when she was nineteen. The bright salt flats and sun-s ...Show more
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The powerful and moving new novel from international bestselling author Isabel Allende, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...Show more
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column ...Show more
Held by Anne Michaels
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOOD The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces- a soaring and luminous story of chance and change 1917. On a battlefield near the ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
You Are Here by David Nicholls
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone.Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. ...Show more