Forty Nights (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Pirooz Jafari
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This story came to me and entered my soul. It did not need a key or an invite, for it already belonged. It walked in, shook my foundation and set my heart on fire. We danced around the flames and with every twirl, I grabbed a few words until I was burnt to ashes. Tishtar runs a small legal practice in ...Show more
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The breathtaking new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Hamnet. Set at the heart of the treacherous political world of the Italian Renaissance, this is the masterful story of a young woman's battle for her very survival, written with all the drama and verve that made HAMNET an international best ...Show more
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from the award-winning Paul Dalla Rosa. 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark? This is a sharp collection that will grip you with strange force; the people here are despera ...Show more
Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A grizzly bear goes on the run after eating a teenager. A hotel room participates in an unlikely conception. A genetically altered platypus colony puts on an art show. A sabretooth tiger falls for the new addition to his theme park. An airline seat laments its last useful day. A Shakespearean monkey tes ...Show more
Wildflowers by Peggy Frew
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forget, from the award-winning author of Islands. They were still who they always had been, still those sisters, but on this afternoon, in this car, driving with the windows down between cane fields under a de ...Show more
Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A year ago the house had been full of life, of noise, of love. Now there were long stretches of silence that settled between them like a fog so dense it made it hard to see a way out, made it hard for them to see each other . . .He was losing sight of the only thing he'd ever truly been certain about. S ...Show more
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
New novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of MALIBU RISING, DAISY JONES AND THE SIX and of the phenomenal TikTok sensation THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO 'Thank you Taylor Jenkins Reid for the escapism we all need' PANDORA SYKES Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost ...Show more
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: very good
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deepl ...Show more
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the inimitable bestselling author, Kate Atkinson, a mesmerising novel set in Soho in the 1920s, when gangsters and politicians, peers and dancing girls, rubbed shoulders in a dazzling new world. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious ...Show more
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
One of the most hopeful, honest and wildly imaginative novels you will ever read, for fans of Joanna Cannon, Patrick Ness and Matt Haig. 'Truly one of the most beautiful stories you'll ever read' JOANNA CANNON'I laughed, I cried, I sat quietly and thought about what I'd read... a future classic' CLARE M ...Show more
Joan by Katherine J. Chen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc - perfect for fans of Cecily, Ariadne and Matrix 'It is as if the author has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time' Hilary Mantel, twice Booker Prize-winning author of The Mirror & ...Show more
All The Broken Places (#2 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) by John Boyne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas | Reading Level: very good
All the Broken Places is John Boyne's masterful sequel to his classic bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, taking a character from that novel on a journey to a place she never goes - the past. Through her story, Boyne explores the aftermath of the war and the effects of a lifetime of guilt. 1946. ...Show more