The Future by Naomi Alderman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future--as the richest people on the planet have discovered--is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the worl ...Show more
The Sisterhood by Katherine Bradley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Vox meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this feminist retelling of 1984. In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one has. Julia is the seemingly perfect example of what women in Oceania should be: dutiful, useful, subservient, meek. But Julia hides a secret ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
Animal People(Prize winner People's Choice 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) by Charlotte Wood
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Why I can't review Animal People. 'I read Charlotte Wood's novel Animal People twice. I think it's one of the best contemporary novels I have read. But I cannot review it. I tried a number of times and failed each time. I only recently realised why this is. I don't want to review Animal People. I want t ...Show more
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What do we know, really, about each other's private lives? Her life is so full, so why is she hungry? For Piglet, getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. And who could blame her, with a childhood nickname like that? Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss - effortless hosts, ...Show more
The End of the Morning by Charmian Clift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time — symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped co ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer th ...Show more
Day by Michael Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabe ...Show more
Medea by Rosie Hewlett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A dark and epic feminist retelling that boldly reclaims the myth of the most formidable and feared witch in Ancient Greece. Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All becau ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Internationally bestselling author Christy Lefteri returns with a dazzling new novel, about one family struggling to recover from trauma, set against the backdrop of the forest fires of Greece. This morning, I met the man who started the fire. You see, he was the one who took it all away, all of life a ...Show more
Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest disco ...Show more