The Visitors by Jane Harrison
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imaging of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. On a steamy, hot day in January 1788, seven Aboriginal men, Elder statesmen representing the nearby clans, gather at Warrane. Several newly arrived ...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
The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro: A Novel by Viola Ardone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the internationally bestselling author of The Children’s Train comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries old tradition to win the right to control her own life.As provincial Sicily bursts into life with t ...Show more
Twelve Steps to a Long and Fulfilling Death by Sarah Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead. Stacey was trying to live her best life, but now she’s dead. But why hasn't she passed on? Could it be her fatal car accident is actually murder? Detectives Ed Beaufontaine and Rose Garafino have a long list of suspects, chief amon ...Show more
The Librarian of Burned Books: A Novel by Brianna Labuskes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American wr ...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
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Reese Witherspoon's March Book Club Pick! 'Big-hearted, earthy and funny... A rattlingly good story' Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold HotelEvery woman has a secret life... When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of emancipating the women of the community she le ...Show more
The Dangers of Female Provocation by Zoe Coyle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Vengeance is coming. Odessa Odin has it all – a successful career, an adoring husband and a close circle of friends to whom she is fiercely loyal. On the surface they’re living a glittering London life of wealth and cosseted privilege, but underneath this veneer lies painful truths of betrayal, neglec ...Show more
The Heart Is A Star by Megan Rogers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling from a talented new writer. A novel for fans of Holly Ringland, Jacqueline Maley, Hannah Richell. Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, ...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
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: good-very good
The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller 'A novel of breathtaking scope' Guardian 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration c ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian author
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more