The Death of Dora Black: A Petticoat Police Mystery by Lainie Anderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime
A charming, uplifting cosy murder mystery inspired by the true story of Australia's pioneering policewoman Kate Cocks. Summer, Adelaide, 1917. The impeccably dressed Miss Kate Cocks might look more like a schoolmistress than a policewoman, but don't let that fool you. She's a household name, wrangling ...Show more
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years.For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody ...Show more
Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize - a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sleuth and his sidekick - except that the sleuth is Jackson Brodie, and the 'sidekick' is DC Reggie Chase. ...Show more
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein 'A stunning exploration of sisterhood and grief, addiction and recovery, pain and pleasure. Captivating' TESS GUNTY 'In Blue Sisters, grief is rendered with gorgeous particularity' RAVEN LEILANI The Blue sisters have always been exce ...Show more
All Fours by Miranda July
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely d ...Show more
James by Percival Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in N ...Show more
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France. A thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty is ...Show more
Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, exploring who holds the power in a modern underworld.Camp counsellor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no lo ...Show more
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes Long Island Compromise, a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy. In 1980, ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author . On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from ...Show more
Frankie by Graham Norton
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
London, 2024. Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York artists on the brink of fame, aspiring w ...Show more