Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
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Category: Fiction
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes ...Show more
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
31.50 AUD
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Category: Fiction
A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were. Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there ar ...Show more
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
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29.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction
'Brilliant wit, real heart and electric humour' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 'A compelling hurricane of a book' Ann Patchett 'A welcome reminder of what fiction can do’ Rumaan Alam A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism, generatio ...Show more
West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
31.50 AUD
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Category: Fiction
'I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.' Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia-finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to 'exotic' beauty, Luna reinvent ...Show more
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
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Category: Fiction
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking. A resonant and provocative novel about motherhood from the prize-winning author of The Devil I Know and Tenderwire 'Compelling . . This is a scorching read. I could not put it down.' ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder (H/B) by Kate Grenville
36.99 AUD
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Category: Fiction
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: Fiction
A Best Book of 2023 in The Times, Sunday Times, i-D, the Guardian When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the ""peasants"" - ordinary people, his reade ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending hi ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been runn ...Show more
Feast by Emily O'Grady
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction
A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yellow House. Three women. Three secrets. One weekend. Alison is an actress who no longer acts, Patrick a musician past his prime. The eccentric couple live an isolated, debauched existence in an old manor ho ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
29.99 AUD
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Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The third novel from the Booker-shortlisted author exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang. It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an ...Show more