A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more
Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural practice for over forty years but now they've decided to hang up their stethoscopes and retire. Joy! Celebration! Or not . . . Heather dreams of exploring the Greek Islands, of escaping the shackles of he ...Show more
Cavendon Hall by Barbara Taylor Bradford
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
BTB at her superb best. A sweeping saga set around the aristocratic Ingham family of Cavendon Hall and the Swanns who serve them, set on the eve of World War 1. Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them One stately home: Cavendon Hall, a grand imposing house nestled i ...Show more
The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. 1868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid sce ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner. George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world The 'best sh ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
$24.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974 ...My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license ... recor ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Burning Chambers
Bringing sixteenth-century Languedoc vividly to life, Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets; of war and adventure, conspiracies and divided loyalties . . . Carcassonne 1562. Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her fa ...Show more
Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Hernán Diaz
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But, as the evening unfolds, news hits of a landslide at a coal mine. It has buried a school: Aberfan.William decides he must act, so he stands and volunteers to attend. It will be his first job as an embalm ...Show more