Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Edna O'Brien's first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have inspired generation after generation of readers and writers, as we see th ...Show more
Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
When Pearl's grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly, Pearl and her family - mother Diana, sister Lucy - return to Kangaroo Island to mourn and farewell her. Each of them knew Nell intimately but differently, and each woman must reckon with Nell's passing in her own way. But Nell had secrets, too. As Pearl, ...Show more
The Truth About Her by Jacqueline Maley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? An absorbing, moving, ruefully tender, witty and wise novel of marriage, motherhood and the paths we navigate through both, for fans of Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler. Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a pho ...Show more
Ghost River by Tony Birch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Now in B format, this stunning, prize-winning novel, set alongside the Yarra River, is heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure. 'You find yourself down at the bottom of the river, for some it's time to give in to her. But other times, young fellas like you two, you got to fight your way back. Show ...Show more
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Deliciously entertaining, this Australian novel is packed with wit and suspense, and it also delivers sharp insights about family dynamics and love." -- People Magazine A twisty, compelling new audiobook about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the ...Show more
28 Questions by Indyana Schneider
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
They say it takes 28 Questions to fall in love. Then what? 'Reader, imagine yielding to someone with a power so strong she has the ability to slice time. Before. Her. After.' When first-year music student Amalia stumbles into her Oxford college bar, she has no idea that everything is about to change. Se ...Show more
The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD A SUNDAY TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed grandma Jean has never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Picador Collection
<b>The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville.</b> In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing ...Show more
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
COMING IN 2022 - a major film, starring Leslie Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs and Lucas Bravo. Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever see ...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
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised - the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a backwater town, they'd built a private wor ...Show more