The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A dazzling debut novel weaving together Caribbean myth and the contemporary story of multiple generations of one immigrant family A Today Show Most Anticipated Book of 2023 An Electric Literature Recommendation for 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Debut of 2023 'A brilliant, compelling exploration of familial ...Show more
The Last White Man: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR "Perhaps Hamid's most remarkable work yet ... an extraordinary vision of human possibility." -Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies"Searing, exhilarating ... reimagines Kafka ...Show more
The Man Who Died Twice: (The Thursday Murder Club 2) by Richard Osman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The Thursday Murder Club
The second novel in the record-breaking number one bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, featuring the old (but far from past-it) team as they pursue a brand new mysteryIt's the following Thursday.Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He is bei ...Show more
The Middle Daughter by Chika Unigwe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The story of seventeen year-old Nani who discovers womanhood through hardship before finding her freedom and independence Udodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we thought that the worst had already happened, and that life would treat us with more kindness.When Nani is o ...Show more
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
$21.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed ...On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but ins ...Show more
The New Life by Tom Crewe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A very fine new writer' Kate Atkinson 'Electrifying' Anne Enright Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer. Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife ...Show more
The Opposite of Success by Eleanor Elliott Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Wickedly sharp and absurdly funny, The Opposite of Success introduces a sensational new voice to remind us that failure is always an option. All Lorrie wants is to get promoted, accept her body and end global warming. By Friday. Is that really too much to ask? Council employee Lorrie Hope has a great ...Show more
The Postcard by Anne Berest
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society. January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opera Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
The Sitter (Miles Franklin 2024 longlist) by Angela O'Keeffe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggling to finish a novel about Hortense Cezanne, wife and sometime muse of the famous painter. Dead for more than a century, Hortense has been reawakened by this creative endeavour, and now shadows the writer ...Show more
The Tea Ladies (PB) by Amanda Hampson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A wickedly witty cosy crime novel set in Sydney in the swinging sixties, ideal for fans of Richard Osman and Bonnie Garmus. They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965- After a chance encounter with a stranger, tea ladies Hazel, Betty and Irene become accidental sleuths, stumb ...Show more
Those Who Perish (#4 Caleb Zelic) by Emma Viskic
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An addictive new thriller from multi-award-winning author Emma Viskic.