The First Bad Man by Miranda July
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
This is The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. A Guardian literary highlight for 2015. A Huffington Post 'One to Watch' in 2015. "Astounding." (Lena Dunham, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl). "The First Bad Man brings together all of July's talents - it's a book that must be ...Show more
Lessons by Ian McEwan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Corne ...Show more
Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good-very good
A deeply moving family story of happiness and heartbreak, Behind the Scenes at the Museum is bestselling author Kate Atkinson's award-winning literary debut. National BestsellerWinner of the Whitbread Book of the YearRuby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes ...Show more
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: near fine
The groundbreaking debut novel from Maggie O'Farrell, AFTER YOU'D GONE is a stunning, best-selling story of wrenching love and grief. A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Wa ...Show more
Light Perpetual: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Francis Spufford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, ha ...Show more
Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Giramondo's publication of Gerald Murnane's new work of fiction comes at a time of heightened international interest in this highly regarded author. Border Districts and Murnane's Collected Short Fiction will be released in the United States by distinguished New York publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE " Picoult] offe ...Show more
The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall, 1813-1815 (#10 Poldark) by Winston Graham
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark Ser.
The Loving Cup is the tenth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1813. A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription Amor gignit amorem h ...Show more
A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience' Sunday Times 'Sublime and immersive … If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend' JOJO MOYES'A surefire summer hit ... feels at once like a gift and an escape route' Observer196 ...Show more
All My Mothers by Joanna Glen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'One of those rarest of books: so beautiful I almost couldn't bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears' STACEY HALLS'Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven' MIRANDA HART'A truly glorious life-affirming book, in which love, hope and friendship trump sorrow' DINAH JEFFERIES'Wor ...Show more
Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a new and alien culture, and so attempts to heal the breach by e ...Show more