In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
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Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, ...Show more
The Melody by Jim Crace
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend a ceremony at the town's avenue of fame, Busi is attac ...Show more
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 HonoreeNBCC John Leonard First Book Prize FinalistAspen Words Literary Prize FinalistCalifornia Book Award First Fiction FinalistLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Buzzfeed, S ...Show more
On The Bright Side by Hendrik Groen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The new diary from one of literature's most beloved octogenarians.On The Bright Side picks up where The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen left off, at the care home of the anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club where Hendrik and his friends are determined to enjoy their autumn years full of optimism. Written with h ...Show more
Whole Bright Year by Debra Oswald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the summer of 1976 it's picking season on an Australian stone-fruit orchard run by Celia, a hard-working woman in her early forties. Years ago, when her husband was killed as a bystander in an armed robbery, Celia left the city and brought her newborn daughter Zoe to this farm for a secure life. Now ...Show more
The Last of the Greenwoods by Clare Morrall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In a field outside Bromsgrove, two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages. No one visits and they never speak to each other. Until the day Zohra Dasgupta, a young postwoman, delivers an extraordinary letter - from a woman claiming to be the sister they thought had been murdered fifty years ...Show more
The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
New from the author of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: it's a match made in hell. Sweeping from Wimbledon to the Caribbean, from LA to mega yachts in the Med, The Singles Game is a brilliantly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high - and no-one plays by the rules. When Charlotte 'Charlie' Si ...Show more
A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the novelist "The New Yorker" called "a writer of extraordinary power, " "A Feast of Snakes" is a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South and the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia.
The Earth Does Not Get Fat by Julia Prendergast
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"A tale of dark family secrets, yet also a tale imbued with awe and wonder at life's mysteries. Prendergast vests her traumatised characters with dignity, and writes them with deep affection and understanding. Poetic, yet earthed, driven by a raw intensity, this impressive debut novel burns with love."- ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient. The past never remains in the past... London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war.14-year-o ...Show more
Bohemia Beach by Justine Ettler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Catherine Bell, a famous concert pianist, is struggling to hold on to her career in a competitive international arena that spans the classical music capitals of the world. After a disastrous show in Copenhagen, Cathy is about to attempt her first concert performance without alcohol in Prague when her ma ...Show more