The Bell of the World (shortlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Award) by Gregory Day
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything they do on the farm, Sarah and her uncle form an inspi ...Show more
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things. Shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now . . . Despite the three women knowing ea ...Show more
Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from ...Show more
Where the Dead Go by Sarah Bailey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Every bit as addictive and suspenseful as The Dark Lake ... Sarah Bailey's writing is both keenly insightful and wholly engrossing, weaving intriguing and multi-layered plots combined with complicated and compelling characters.' The BooktopianA fifteen-year-old girl has gone missing after a party in t ...Show more
The Housemate by Sarah Bailey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A standalone thriller from the award-winning writer of the bestselling Gemma Woodstock trilogy: The Dark Lake, Into the Night and Where the Dead Go. 'Each new twist in the story skilfully balances bombshell revelations and believability, in a crime that feels achingly familiar, yet shocking at the same ...Show more
The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Amanda Lohrey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
North Woods by Daniel Mason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and inhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote him ...Show more
The Talented Mrs Greenway by Tea Cooper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really shaped Sydney? Who is the talented Mrs Greenway? 1814 Sydney Town When Mary Greenway, freshly arrived fro ...Show more
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever h ...Show more
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.'The thing about books,' she said 'is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.'On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found. ...Show more
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more