Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
27.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce and fantasy. A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named "Girl of Spring". A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a ...Show more
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Caro Llewellyn's family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her. Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysi ...Show more
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 'Magnificent' Guardian 'A Masterpiece' New York Times ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE 'MAGNIFICENT.' Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE.' New York Times 'MARVELLOUS.' Sara Collins 'EXTRAORDINARY.' Madeleine Thien 'HYPNOTIC.' Daily Tele ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
35.00 AUD
Category: Animals
When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author ...Show more
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim.
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
The Lebs: Miles Franklin Literary Award Finalist by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
27.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad. 'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and over until finally I shout back, 'Shut up, I have something to say!' They all go quiet and wait for me to explain myself, redeem myself, ...Show more
A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Adam's life has been ruined by war . . . A veteran of the Iraq conflict who has suffered such extensive bodily trauma that he can only really survive by means of a mechanical skeleton.Marianna's has been ruined by men . . . A woman who has had to flee the country after her husband lied to the wrong peop ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
14.99 AUD
32.99 (54% off)
Category: Modern Fiction
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling new book from Evie Wyld, winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fat ...Show more