Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. Dus ...Show more
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Hachette Essentials
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I ...Show more
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might ...Show more
Milkman by Anna Burns
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes "interesting," the ...Show more
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
'You'll recognise every character in Whisper Network. Furious and relevant writing: the ultimate #metoo book. I loved it so much.' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'If only you had listened to us, none of this would have happened.' Sloane, Ardie, Grace and Rosalita have worked in the same legal office for years. The su ...Show more
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V E Schwab
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
When Addie LaRue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price — the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone. Addie flees her tiny hometown in 18th Century France, beginning a journey that takes her across the world, ...Show more
Grace Under Pressure by Tori Haschka
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'These days you have to build your own village' Grace Harkness looks like she has it all #blessed #mumlife #cleaneating. She has a ravenous tribe of Instagram followers, four cookbooks under her belt and an idyllic patch of Sydney's Northern Beaches to call home. But add two children under five (and ano ...Show more
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living--and guaranteed to please." --Vogue A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM: The New York Times Book Review * Vogue * TIME * Marie Claire * El ...Show more
The Pavilion in the Clouds by Alexander McCall Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, live the Ferguson family: Bella, a precocious eight-year-old; her father Henry - owner of Pitlochry, a tea plantation - and her mother Virginia. The story cent ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the world accessed through a screen. It's about where we go when existential threats loom and high-stakes reality claims us back. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof tha ...Show more
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Devastatingly humorous and humorously devastating...an unbelievably brilliant and funny book about friendship, family, food, sex, and death. Catherine Newman serves up a masterclass in narrative - you'll stay up late devouring every word.' KATHERINE HEINY, author of Early Morning Riser and Standard Dev ...Show more