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Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett ...Show more
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests ...Show more
The Yield by Tara June Winch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2020. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2020. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020. Just tell the truth and someone will hear it eventually. The Yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the langu ...Show more
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What if Hillary hadn't married Bill? The sensational long-awaited new novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of American Wife. WHAT IF HILLARY RODHAM HAD TURNED DOWN BILL CLINTON'S PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE? ‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago subur ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pit ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
#1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "I can't even express how much I love this book I didn't want this story to end " - Reese Witherspoon "Painfully beautiful." - The New York Times Book Review "Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver." - Bustle For years, rumor ...Show more
To Asia, with Love by Hetty McKinnon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Asian/Indian/Thai/Malaysian/Chinese/Japanese | Reading Level: near fine
'To Asia, With Love is my homecoming, a joyous return to the humble, yet deeply nurturing flavours and meals of my childhood as a Chinese girl born in Australia. It is also a celebration of the exciting and delicious possibilities of modern Asian cooking.'Recipes range from the traditional - salt and pe ...Show more
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel from the author of Normal People. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her b ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marian ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale - Vintage Classics by Margaret Atwood
$14.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020. Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segreg ...Show more
Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A brilliantly original debut about a love affair cut short, and how lonely it is to live inside a secret -- for fans of Sally Rooney, Sheila Heti, and Ottessa Moshfegh. Ana Kelly can deal with death. As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of her day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informin ...Show more