Max by Avi Duckor-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A beautifully written coming-of-age novel from an exciting new voice in antipodean fiction I want to let her know that choosing something is the entire problem. How do you choose something without feeling the undeniable loss of everything you rejected? Max is about to finish high school. On the surface ...Show more
The Librarian by Salley Vickers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand; she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip Pullman In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town ...Show more
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A lush, thrilling debut about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant. Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge...This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the 22-year-old at the heart of thi ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither. He discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around his adored island of Penang, and in return Endo trains him in t ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The thrilling new novel from the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Luminaries, now in paperback. FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable ...Show more
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Meet the happy couple. Luke and Celine, are in mutual unrequited love with each other, set to marry in a year's time. The best man, Archie, is meant to want to move up the corporate ladder and on from his love for Luke; yet he stands where he is, admiring the view. The bridesmaid, Phoebe, Celine's sis ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to d ...Show more
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Now a major motion picture- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, ...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
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling o ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY, autho ...Show more