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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
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.' In To Asia, With Love, Hetty McKinnon shows hom ...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
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
#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 year ...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 Marianne ...Show more
The Yield by Tara June Winch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
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 l ...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 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates she will, like all dissenters, be hanged or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men whose future she will change forever ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
Yellow Notebook: Diaries, 1978-1986 (HB) by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Leigh Sales: "An incredible insight into the thinking and writing processes of one of the greatest writers in Australian history." Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked awa ...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 suburb. ...Show more
Sand Talk; How Indigenous Thinking ... by Tyson Yunkaporta
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrodinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect ...Show more