Mania by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
The Future by Naomi Alderman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future--as the richest people on the planet have discovered--is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the worl ...Show more
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary l ...Show more
Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Hernán Diaz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What do we know, really, about each other's private lives? Her life is so full, so why is she hungry? For Piglet, getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. And who could blame her, with a childhood nickname like that? Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss - effortless hosts, ...Show more
Day by Michael Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabe ...Show more
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love - a sharply funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship, and how to survive both. Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he c ...Show more
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. An unforgettable story of artistry and unity under occupation. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with a ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Internationally bestselling author Christy Lefteri returns with a dazzling new novel, about one family struggling to recover from trauma, set against the backdrop of the forest fires of Greece. This morning, I met the man who started the fire. You see, he was the one who took it all away, all of life a ...Show more
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK* 'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun Li June ...Show more
Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest disco ...Show more