After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A literary reimagining of some of history's greatest queer women. What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her-the man she has been forced to m ...Show more
Cutters End by Margaret Hickey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime
A scintillating crime thriller, set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End. A mysterious death on New Year's Eve 1989 leads to a shocking murder investigation 32 years later . . .'Past and the present collide to create a gripping tale of murder and intrigue.' Chris HammerA desert highway. A ...Show more
The Rain Heron (Winner of the Age Book of the Year 2021) by Robbie Arnott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From a 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year and the author of the highly praised novel Flames, comes another beguiling, transformative work of fiction confirming Robbie Arnott as one of Australia's most exciting writers.Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a ...Show more
The Paper Palace: The No.1 New York Times Bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick by Miranda Cowley Heller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a lifeBefore anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious fresh water pond below 'The Paper Palace' - the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod where her family has ...Show more
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The top ten Sunday Times bestselling portrait of a marriage Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-ag ...Show more
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involunta ...Show more
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Looking for a summer read with bite?'BRILLIANT' Stylist'TERRIFICALLY ALIVE' Observer'DELICIOUSLY UNTAMED' FT'COOLLY INCISIVE' Guardian'UNHOLY' Carmen Maria Machado'THE SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR TO ANGELA CARTER' Evening StandardOne day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly somet ...Show more
Things We Bury by Matthew Ryan Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime
Three siblings, reunited in their home town, are struggling to deal with the fallout of a car crash that almost killed their father. This, on top of everything else life is throwing at them. Josh is trying to save his marriage and hard-won TV career in the wake of a painfully public sexual harassment s ...Show more
The Strays by Emily Bitto
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In The Strays, Evan Trentham is the wild child of the Melbourne art world of the 1930s. He and his captivating wife, Helena, attempt to carve out their own small niche, to escape the stifling conservatism they see around them, by gathering together other like-minded artists. They create a utopian circle ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stew ...Show more
Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son Owen for time to w ...Show more
Small Things Like These (HB) by Claire Keegan
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020)It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces i ...Show more