Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (#3 Neapolitan Quartet) by Elena Ferrante
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet
Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times-bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanh ...Show more
Losing Face: An unforgettable novel about family and Western Sydney (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by George Haddad
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Joey is young, indifferent. He's drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And then one day he is involved in a violent crime, one that threatens to upend his life entirely.Elaine, his grandmother, is a proud Lebanese woman with problems of her own. When Joey is ar ...Show more
Like Water For Chocolate: No.1 international bestseller by Laura Esquivel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
The bestselling phenomenon and inspiration for the award-winning film. Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance and bittersweet wit. This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama ...Show more
A Jewish Girl in Paris by Melanie Levensohn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Paris, 1940: The City of Lights under German occupation. Christian, son of a bank director, falls in love with Jewish girl Judith. The young couple secretly plan to flee, but suddenly Judith disappears. Christian begins a frantic search. Montreal, 1982: Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg confesses ...Show more
The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A thirst for learning and a passion for astronomy draw an extraordinary young woman deep into the intellectual maelstrom, political complexities and religious extremism of Renaissance Florence. This beautifully crafted novel will appeal to readers of Karen Brooks' The Good Wife of Bath and Pip Williams' ...Show more
The Whispering by Veronica Lando
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The whispering wild will take your child if you dare to look away ...The stunning Aussie crime debut from the winner of the 2021 Banjo Prize for Fiction. Callum Haffenden swore he'd never return to Granite Creek. But, thirty years after a life-shattering accident, he's thrust back into the clutches of F ...Show more
Lucy by the Sea (HB) by Elizabeth Strout
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past ...Show more
Next in Line (HB) by Jeffrey Archer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: William Warwick Novels
International bestseller Jeffrey Archer returns The unputdownable new novel from master storyteller Jeffrey Archer. William Warwick and Ross Hogan return in a gripping adventure which will take them to the very heart of power...
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of All My Puny Sorrows, soon to be a major film starring Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw. 'Don't miss this one! This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale ...Show more
Septology by Jon Fosse
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-fa ...Show more
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.' This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself compl ...Show more
A Month In The Country: Penguin Essentials by J.L. Carr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of ren ...Show more