The Women by Kristin Hannah
$35.00 AUD
Category: General and literary
From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane (a Number One series on Netflix), The Women is a story of devastating loss and epic love. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation divided by war.It would ...Show more
Politica by Yumna Kassab
$35.00 AUD
Category: General and literary
A captivating literary journey that delves into the intertwined lives of a town, its people, and a region shaped by revolution and war. The war broke out and she decided to call her dad. Weeks and weeks we do not speak, and the weeks become months and then they are so many years. She imagines herself ...Show more
West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$33.00 AUD
Category: General and literary
'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
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: General and literary
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
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$33.00 AUD
Category: General and literary | Reading Level: very good
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, fr ...Show more
Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Prize WINNER by Alexis Wright
$40.00 AUD
Category: General and literary
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Lead Us Not by Abbey Lay
$35.00 AUD
Category: General and literary
An emotionally charged novel of female friendship, for readers of Elena Ferrante and Diana Reid. 'When we spoke, I never knew what Olive would reveal to me. There were nights where she would lie next to me and pour herself out into the darkness, and others where it seemed she was hardly there at all.' ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$27.00 AUD
Category: General and literary
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
$20.00 AUD
Category: General and literary | Reading Level: near fine
Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookshop he inherited from his beloved grandfather. Then, a talking cat named Tiger appears with an unusual request. The cat needs Rintaro’s help to save books that have been imprisoned, destroyed and unloved. Their mission sen ...Show more
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
$32.99 AUD
Category: General and literary
Solve the murder to save what's left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing - the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island - it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and ...Show more
Tilda Is Visible: A novel about women, life and being seen by Jane Tara
$34.99 AUD
Category: General and literary
A gorgeous, witty and wise novel celebrating older women and what it takes to embrace ourselves as we age, from Better Reading's Jane Tara. 'Pitch-perfect'. Kathy Lette 'There aren't many original story ideas, but Jane Tara has pulled off the almost impossible feat of writing one. Tilda Is Visible is fr ...Show more
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
$35.00 AUD
Category: General and literary
From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a mother–daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control. One hundred days. It’s no time at all, she tells me. But she’s not the one waiting. In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls preg ...Show more