The Night Travelers by Armando Lucas Correa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler’s deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes ...Show more
At Certain Points We Touch by Lauren John Joseph
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From an electrifying new voice, a "stone-cold masterpiece" (Olivia Laing) of queer friendship, first love, and unbridled youth. It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realize the date is February 29th -- the birthday of the man who was something like their fir ...Show more
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband orCelal, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celal, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he fin ...Show more
The Book of Longings (PB) by Sue Monk Kidd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE New York Times BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY-SELLING The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings 'Superlative . . . From a writer at the top of her game . . . A practically perfect historical novel' New York Journal of Books 'A bold, imaginative reworking' Sunday Times ...Show more
Gathering Evidence by Martin MacInnes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Following up from his award-winning and critically acclaimed debut, Infinite Ground, Scottish novelist Martin MacInnes has written a deeply intelligent and thrilling novel on a family stalked by fear and uncertainty, and of a world both beautiful and terrible.
The Wayward Sisters by Kate Hodges
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
1782. Nancy Lockaby is trying to salvage her reputation as an astronomer - left in tatters after a discredited discovery - when she receives a mysterious letter, inviting her to join Shakespeare scholar Caelan Malles at his crumbling house in Inverness.But at Blackthistle House, Nancy notices that Caela ...Show more
Golden Days by Caroline Barron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My NameBecky thought she'd left Zoe Golden and that summer far behind. Until now.Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Be ...Show more
Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A biting collection of stories from a bold new voice A young girl sees ghosts from her third eye, located where her belly button should be. A one-dimensional yellow man steps out of a cinema screen, hoping to lead a three-dimensional life. A journalist goes on assignment to report the latest food tre ...Show more
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The ...Show more
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who f ...Show more
The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Inspired by a real-life female spy, a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost. 1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operati ...Show more
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlised Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sist ...Show more