The Island of Missing Trees: Reese's Pick by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
Illuminations by Alan Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality'NEIL GAIMAN'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONEIn his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years ...Show more
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Contemporary | Series: The MaddAddam Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some r ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and brutish Yahoos ...Show more
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
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Category: Contemporary
"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae ...Show more
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The Booker-longlisted novel, drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence, old magic and the mysteries of love, from the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Goldsmiths Prize
Sex and Vanity: from the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE FABULOUS NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CRAZY RICH ASIANS When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish Capri wedding, she can’t stand him: He’s a mama’s boy. A self-righteous eco-warrior. A brooding weirdo that takes himself much too seriously. And no-one should look that good in ...Show more
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
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Category: Contemporary
"Mrs. Parks was often paid in gold dust, but she paid her girls in dollars ..."From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girlsMonterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was kill ...Show more
Selling The Dream by Hugh Mackay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"If someone asked me who should write a satirical novel about the advertising business - someone with inside knowledge who could write well and was extremely clever and amusing - I'd say, 'See if Hugh Mackay is available.'" John ClarkeLincoln The Hunter is living the dream. Universally admired and terri ...Show more
Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories by Lauren Groff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed "The Monsters of Templeton" was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In "Delicate Edible Birds", she fulfils that promise. "Delicate Edible Birds" includes nine stories of ...Show more
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A riveting novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She's Not There.Olivia McAfee and Ava Campanello have each had a change of life forced upon them. Olivia never d ...Show more
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. An unforgettable story of artistry and unity under occupation. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with a ...Show more