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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 bet ...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
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
Yield, The 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 ...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
Bruny by Heather Rose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 2 Crime
How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcomi ...Show more
Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 3 Biography
ARIA Award-winning singer and actress Clare Bowditch confronts her inner critic in this no-holds-barred memoir. This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and well enough - to write. Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very 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 Weekend by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
RICHARD GLOVER REVIEWS: ''I love writers who break their own mould with each book. Charlotte’s last book, The Natural Way of Things, was darkly compelling; this has more sunshine plus wonderfully flawed characters in whom you may find reflections of yourself.'' People went on about death bringing frien ...Show more
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a security guard of kidnapping the Chamberlains' toddler at the supermarket one night. A small crowd gathers, a ...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. He ...Show more
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest wh ...Show more