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Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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.
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost. Desperate to ig ...Show more
Kindred: The ground-breaking masterpiece by Octavia E. Butler
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction
Octavia E. Butler's 1979 masterpiece and ground-breaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of The Handmaid's Tale, The Power and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing. With an original foreword by Ayòbámi Adébáyò. In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged si ...Show more
Giovanni's Room (Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a c ...Show more
Matrix by Lauren Groff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSAN OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR'Gorgeous, sensual, addictive' SARA COLLINS'Brightly lit' NAOMI ALDERMANBorn from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court an ...Show more
The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022The Times Historical Fiction Book of the MonthThe truth must come out.In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive- the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of w ...Show more
Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish
$45.00 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for direction in life, just moved back in with her parents and dabbles as a sex worker. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that, as it veers towards something more, becomes a deeply resonant exploration ...Show more
She and her Cat by MAKOTO SHINKAI
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Japanese bestseller, now in gifty gold-foiled paperback with flaps, including irresistible inside illustrationsTHE PERFECT CURL-UP READ FOR CAT-LOVERS IN A SPECIAL CHRISTMASSY PACKAGE'Compassionate and touching' DAILY MAIL'Goes to show how cats will save us all' Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and t ...Show more
The Red Arrow by William Brewer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'It was a strange time. He felt like he was happy.It was strange because it wasn't so long ago that he was convinced the only way out of the depression that had crippled him since he was a child, was death.'But now, he is on a high-speed train travelling from Rome to Modena, a failed novelist on the tai ...Show more
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The moving new novel from the bestselling author of The Night Guest. In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets and enormous dust storms. One of its own has gone missing - six-year-old Denny Wallace - and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they s ...Show more
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