The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: FABER MODERN CLASSICS
"In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cel ...Show more
Car Crash: A Memoir by Lech Blaine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver - who was not drunk or high - made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7 | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a sm ...Show more
All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
**NEW** 'The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true. I don't mind at all if you forget this. The important thing is that I don't.' On a hot still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, ...Show more
The Godmother: La Daronne by Hannelore Cayre
$27.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specialises in telephone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for he ...Show more
Lanny by Max Porter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to families dead for generat ...Show more
Undoctored - The story of a medic who ran out of patients by Adam Kay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century. It has been read by millions, translated into 37 languages, and adapted into a major BBC television series. But that was only part of the story. Now, Adam Kay returns and will onc ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The international bestselling writer Ann Patchett has been described as 'one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives' and 'a master of her art' (Observer). In her new collection, with her trademark blend of wryness, intelligence and wisdo ...Show more
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: An Arthur Less Novel | Reading Level: very good
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on ...Show more
The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After Midlife by Jonathan Rauch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Better Living, Self Help & Personal development
This book will change your life by showing you how life changes. Why does happiness get harder in your 40s' Why do you feel in a slump even when you're successful' Where does this malaise come from' And, most importantly, will it ever end' Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist Jonat ...Show more
Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today by Alison Whittaker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, ...Show more