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
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2024 | Reading Level: very good
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, fr ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
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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
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
$22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A sweeping, genre-bending "masterpiece" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity - from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé . ONE OF THE TEN B ...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
Lapvona: The unmissable Sunday Times Bestseller by Ottessa Moshfegh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of TikTok sensation My Year of Rest and Relaxation.NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, The Times, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping & Daily Mail.In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself th ...Show more
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