The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words o ...Show more
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"It's a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after…" Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief, Plain Bad Heroines is a brilliant piece of exuberant storytelling by a terrifically talented author. SARAH WATE ...Show more
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2020. The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of ex ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more
Contacts by Mark Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'This is such a great book, funny and serious and daring and humane' Richard Curtis 'Mark Watson is one of my favourite writers and Contacts is by far his best book yet' Adam Kay James Chiltern boards the 23:50 sleeper train from London to Edinburgh with two pork pies, six beers and a packet of chocol ...Show more
Snow by John Banville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.' Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family - Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin ...Show more
The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernieres
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Daniel Pitt
Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War. Daniel Pitt has seen a lot of action. He was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the co ...Show more
Olga by Bernhard Schlink
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
The life of one woman - Olga - from late 19th century Prussia to modern Germany.A novel of love, passion and history from beloved modern master Bernhard Schlink. 'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York Times Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the tu ...Show more
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shortlisted for Palestine Book Award Nahr has been confined to the Cube- nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The wor ...Show more
Trio by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, with ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...Show more
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together w ...Show more