The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
How do you build up a sense of robust pride when your body has taught itself to be fearful? Fiona Murphy's memoir about being deaf is a revelation. Secrets are heavy, burdensome things. Imagine carrying a secret that if exposed could jeopardise your chances of securing a job and make you a social outca ...Show more
The Lotus Eaters by Emily Clements
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
Since childhood, Emily Clements' sense of self had always been shaped by the opinions of others and her need to be liked. When a stand-off with her best friend sees nineteen-year-old Emily stranded in Vietnam, she is alone for the first time and adrift in a new environment. With seemingly nothing to l ...Show more
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
They were the new icons of rock and roll, fated to burn bright and not fade away. But on 12 July 1979, it all came crashing down. There was Daisy, rock and roll force of nature, brilliant songwriter and unapologetic drug addict, the half-feral child who rose to superstardom. There was Camila, the frontm ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Tales from the Café #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more
The Wych Elm by Tana French
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully written mystery' SOPHIE HANNAH 'Dark and twisty' SUNDAY TIMES 'Mesmerising' GILLIAN FLYNN 'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN________________________ ...Show more
French Exit by Patrick deWitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers Frances Price is in dire straits. Scandals swirl around the recently widowed New York socialite, and her adult-aged, toddler-brained son Malcolm is no help. Cutting their losses, they grab their cat, Small Frank, and hea ...Show more
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
$22.99 AUD
Category: SciFi/Fantasy/Horror
Terra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man's land "Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was ...Show more
Ponti by Sharlene Teo
$18.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Remarkable' - Ian McEwan.2003, Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued Circe, an unlikely encounter ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, ...Show more
Circe by Madeline Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the ...Show more
The Ruin (Cormac Reilly #1) by Dervla McTiernan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical resident, she throws herself into study and work, trying to forget -- until Jack's sister Maude shows up. Maude suspects foul play, and she is determined to prov ...Show more
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has le ...Show more