Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary 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
Maame by Jessica George
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi, but in my case, it means woman. Meet Maddie. To her mostly-absent mum, she's Maame, the woman of the family. To her dad, she's his carer - even if he hardly recognises her. To her friends, she's the one who still lives at home, who never puts herself first. It' ...Show more
Me, Her, Us by Yen-Rong Wong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Memoir-essays from an award-winning writer, exploring race, sex, familial expectations, and identity. Raised by strict, religious, Malaysian Chinese parents in Brisbane's southern suburbs, Yen-Rong Wong internalised an idealised image of a Chinese-presenting girl at a young age. As she grew into young ...Show more
Midnight's Children (Vintage Classics) by Salman Rushdie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of a modern classic and winner of 'The Best of the Booker' - the best novel from Booker Prize history.Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is ...Show more
Notes on Her Colour by Jennifer Neal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A coming-of-age story from an American-Australian, with a speculative premise, but very much grounded in the reality of being a person of colour living in North America. 'It wasn't long before my wet and sticky fascination with life beyond the walls of our home could be read all over my face like soot' ...Show more
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary 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
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize. A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly 'red wind' blows through the city, forcing ever ...Show more
Prophet by Helen Macdonald, Sin Blache
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. THIS IS PROPHET. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has cre ...Show more
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
Riambel by Priya Hein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that is starkly different from her own – yet one which would have been all too familiar to her ancestors. Bewi ...Show more
Ruth & Pen: The brilliant debut novel from the internationally bestselling author of Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller Notes to Self Dublin, 7 October 2019 One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world won't make space for you, t ...Show more
Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Introducing an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Molly Schmidt, winner of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Salt River Road is a compelling coming-of-age novel about grief and healing set in a small town in the 1970s. In the aftermath of their mother's death, the Tetley siblings' li ...Show more