The Sellout by Paul Beatty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
WINNER THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by his single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believ ...Show more
You Don't Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk, he runs into an old friend who offers him an extraordinary way out. Robert James, wealthy and in ...Show more
High Time: High Stakes and High Jinx in the World of Art and Finance by Hannah Rothschild
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
She wants revenge... she just doesn't know it yet Ayesha has been married to the ruthless, aspirational Thomlinson Sleet for nearly 10 years: the longest any wife of his has lasted. He bought her family home, the beautiful house in Cornwall that was about to be lost to them, and she's forever been in h ...Show more
Weyward by Emilia Hart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
KATE, 2019 Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt. There, a secret lurks in the bones of the house, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. VIOLET, 1942 Violet is more interested in collecting insects and climbing tree ...Show more
Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It's a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. We choose to breathe, don't we?Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her p ...Show more
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fasci ...Show more
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A powerful novel about the shared grief of a Palestinan and an Israeli. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i ...Show more
Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is the 1960s. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth's, a Roman Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky. Rose is a young woman who has decided, to be 'a liar for the rest of my life'. She is pregnant but also married (athough at St Elizabeth's she claims to be unwed), fleeing her dull but ...Show more
The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Michael Cunningham's luminous, compassionate new novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard hi ...Show more
The Windy Season by Sam Carmody
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the mid-west town of Geraldton on the central coast of Western Australia. He is also a previous recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards and his short fiction and non-fic ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualiti ...Show more