The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a dazzling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI. Johnny von Neumann was an enigma. As a young man, he stunned those around him with his monomaniacal pursuit of the unshakeable foundations of ...Show more
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Jackie: A Novel by Dawn Tripp
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Take the incisive brilliance of Curtis Sittenfeld and add to it exquisite prose in the vein of Maggie O'Farrell and you have the novel Jackie. A truly astonishing achievement: to breathe new life into a woman everyone thinks they already know' NATASHA LESTER The intimate life story of Jacqueline Bouvie ...Show more
Hagstone by Sinead Gleeson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The haunting debut novel from beloved, Irish no. 1 bestselling author, Sinéad Gleeson. The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? On a wild and rugged island cut off and isolated to some, artist Nell feels the island is her home. It is the source o ...Show more
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.'ALI SMITH'Entirely original.'STYLIST'Oyeyemi has mastered the art of bold, expansive storytelling.'IRENOSEN OKOJIE'A writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary.'INDEPENDENTThe new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oye ...Show more
A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It's the kind of power that could implode a family, a friendship, a life. On a quiet summer night in Newcastle, 1972, a choice must be made: to act upon these desires, or su ...Show more
Things I Need You to Know by Mark Lamprell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A brilliantly observed novel about families and secrets, from acclaimed writer and film director Mark Lamprell. You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Birdie McBride seems to have it all- a fulfilling and lucrative job, five healthy daughters and a doting husband, Ned, at home keeping the family ...Show more
Edenhope by Louise Le Nay
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The warm, heroic story of a grandmother's determination to save her family from themselves. Marnie is sixty-three and downwardly mobile. Her middle-class marriage is long gone, her only child more or less estranged. She's living in a granny flat behind a stranger's house. Still, things could be worse. S ...Show more
The Desert Knows Her Name by Lia Hills
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In this stunning, lyrical novel of nature and history, a girl walks out of the desert and shakes a community to its core. Listen deeply now, if you remember how and why. On a hot October afternoon, a girl walks barefoot out of the Wimmera desert, near the small town of Gatyekarr. She finds sanctuary wi ...Show more
And Now the Light Is Everywhere by L. A. MacRae
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A vivid, involving and beautifully written story.' JOSEPH O'CONNOR'A book that draws you in and holds you till the very end' ANNE GRIFFIN'Sensitive and accurate . . . A page turner' JAMES ROBERTSON'An eloquent novel . . . I was captivated' MARGOT LIVESEYFor fans of Ann Patchett, Maggie O'Farrell and Lo ...Show more
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Rollicking, melodic, tender and true. And oh so very wise' Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has be ...Show more
Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful and important novel with a crucial and timely feminist message, from the Stella Prize-shortlisted author of Little Gods. She tells me to sit down, says that she has something I need to hear and it's that they don't cut hair or set curls. Well they do sometimes, but not always, she says. She ...Show more