Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
$33.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
Thanks for Having Me by Emma Darragh
$30.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
The first fiction title from JOAN, consisting of interwoven stories about three generations of women in one family as they navigate girlhood, motherhood and selfhood, perfect for fans of Jennifer Egan, Meg Mason and Paige Clark. 'Emma has captured something rare and true with this book. A truly origi ...Show more
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
$25.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba--the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people--and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Ne ...Show more
North Woods by Daniel Mason
$33.00 AUD
Category: Modern 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 Angry Women's Choir by Meg Bignell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
'...this is a mighty fun read' - Jessie Tu Freycinet Barnes has built herself the perfect existence. With beautiful children, a successful husband and a well-ordered schedule, it's a life so full she simply doesn't fit. When she steps outside her calendar and is accidentally thrown into the generous b ...Show more
Tom Lake (HB) by Ann Patchett
$40.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
'Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature' Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared b ...Show more
Before Your Memory Fades (Before The Coffee Gets Cold #3) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$22.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee ...Show more
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
$33.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...Show more
Beatrix & Fred by Emily Spurr
$33.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A bizarre and beautiful tale of an unlikely friendship; Beatrix and Fred will be the warmest and weirdest book you'll read all year. Beatrix is a loner. She has a love-hate relationship with her one friend, Ray, a hate-hate relationship with everyone else in her office and a genuine attachment to a stu ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: HB Gift Edition by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi's moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? In a s ...Show more
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
'This sly, exhilarating novel takes on slut-shaming . . . and manages to be hilarious in the process' People'It's brilliant and hilarious . . . It has a heart. And a spine. It's exactly what we need more of right now.' Chicago Tribune'A smart, intersectional feminist tour de force' Washington TimesThis ...Show more
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
$23.00 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless ci ...Show more