Saha by Cho Nam-Joo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 In a country called 'Town', Su is found dead in an abandoned car. The suspected killer is presumed to come from the Saha Estates. Town is a privatised country, controlled by a secretive organisation known as the Seven Premiers. It is a ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: David Unaipon Award Winners Ser.
When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity.Her journey ...Show more
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Meanwhile, Mussolini's hundred ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's hi ...Show more
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Absolutely stunning . . . Assured, bold, and electrifying, If I Had Your Face marks the entrance of a bright new voice in fiction' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX 'Engrossing... Each voice in this quartet cuts through the pages so cleanly and clearly t ...Show more
The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham, Vivian Pham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Growing up can feel like a death sentence Life in a troubled neighbourhood demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn’t really know. Watching the world from her bedroom window, she exists only in second-hand romance novels and falls for any fast-food employee who happens to spare her a glance. Everyth ...Show more
The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: Fiction The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around themes of isolation, family and community, and nostalgia for ...Show more
The Yield by Tara June Winch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2020. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2020. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020. Just tell the truth and someone will hear it eventually. The Yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the langu ...Show more
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of PAST THE SHALLOWS and WHEN THE NIGHT COMES. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a ma ...Show more
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A compelling and vivid look at the friendships we make as women. Honest, unsettling and, like all good literature, had me asking questions about life and myself." Heather Rose, austhor of The Museum of Modern Love, winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. People went on about death bringing friends together, b ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1922 and New York is electric. A hotbed of jazz, glamour and scandal. The playground of the super-rich. And the new home of Nick Carraway, a Mid-Western man chasing his American dream. For eighty dollars a month, Carraway finds himself the unlikely neighbour of his beautiful cousin Daisy Buchannan ...Show more