Trilogy by Jon Fosse
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cul ...Show more
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
And Then She Fell is an unflinching and fiercely witty debut novel of Indigenous life, womanhood and mental health, heralding the arrival of an important and urgent new voice in genre-bending fiction. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful ba ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Stella Prize Shortlist 2024
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
Every Version of You by Grace Chan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside crampe ...Show more
Hospital (PB) by Sanya Rushdi
$26.95 AUD
Category: Stella Prize Shortlist 2024
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med ...Show more
Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Who is Iris Webber? A thief, a fighter, a wife, a lover. A scammer, a schemer, a friend. A musician, a worker, a big-hearted fool. A woman who has prevailed against the toughest gangsters of the day, defying police time and again, yet is now trapped in a prison cell. Guilty or innocent? Rollicking throu ...Show more
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-Yong (translated by by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story - an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on a family of rail workers, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of workers and common folk, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing throu ...Show more
Runt by Craig Silvey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Older Readers
A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones and Honeybee. 'You don't have to carry the weight of the world in your tool belt.' Annie Shearer lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called R ...Show more
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful, compressed masterwork that explores questions of complicity, power and devotion. 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 - fr ...Show more
The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This near-future sci-fi novel from an award-winning Barbadian author imagines a post-climate disaster Earth suffused by VR tech.On a post-apocalyptic Earth devastated by climate change, the Global Government Project has begun to train a group of young diplomatic representatives in a simulation for First ...Show more
The Bookseller's Apprentice (Grandest Bookshop #2) (PB) by Amelia Mellor
$17.99 AUD
Category: Older Readers
Return to Amelia Mellor's magical Melbourne in the prequel to best-seller The Grandest Bookshop in the World, now in paperback. See a whole new side to Amelia Mellor's magical Melbourne in this action-packed prequel to The Grandest Bookshop in the World. Twelve-year-old Billy Pyke has a talent for sorti ...Show more