West Side Honey by Claire Christian
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A sexy and empowering rom-com from the beloved author of It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake. Cleo has a few things going on. Two beautiful kids and a less beautiful ex-husband, a share house arrangement with her long-term bestie Jude (complete with a third child, also beautiful) and an underperforming fl ...Show more
Over This Backbone by Ya Reeves
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
I shake my head - it's only day one.That wind is hot. I can feel the salt drying and gluing my eyebrows and lashes and gripping to the fine hairs on my cheeks. Shoulders, already knotted, ache. Blisters bubble their way to the surface, and I know I should have stopped for them but I'm single-minded to t ...Show more
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...Show more
Only Love Can Hurt Like This by Paige Toon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular
'Heartwarming and heartbreaking' Giovanna Fletcher'Deep, emotional, powerful' Milly Johnson'It swept my away 'Beth O'Leary___________________________Neither of them expected to fall in love. But sometimes life has other plans.When Wren realises her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her hea ...Show more
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, there is no place at all for her in a traditional English manor. But from the day that a whale washes up on t ...Show more
The Hero of this Book: 'A sublime gift' Meg Mason by Elizabeth McCracken
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A Book of the Year in the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Washington Post, People Magazine and Oprah DailyA taut, groundbreaking new novel about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writingTen months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Boo ...Show more
The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2024 Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024 Sydney Morning Herald Best R ...Show more
Pretend I'm Dead by Jen Beagin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'THIS BOOK IS ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE ON ACID!' SARA WINGFIELD, GOODREADS Jen Beagin's brilliant, off-beat and deeply moving novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona - almost twenty-four, emotionally adrift and cleaning houses to get by. Volunteering for a needle-exchange programm ...Show more
Utopian Man by Lisa Lang
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
It's the 1880s. Marvellous Melbourne is a lavish and raucous city where anything could happen. Eccentric entrepreneur Edward William Cole is building the sprawling Cole's Book Arcade and filling it with whatever amuses him, or supports his favourite causes: a giant squid, a brass band, monkeys, a black ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves (#4 Scarecrow) by Matthew Reilly
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Scarecrow
The edge-of-your-seat bestseller from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Jack West Jr series and the upcoming novel The Three Secret Cities. "Matthew Reilly is the king of hard-core action." Brad Thor, New York Times bestselling author of Full BlackBOOK 4 IN THE SCARECROW SERIESA former Sovie ...Show more
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