West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'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
Wall (Miles Franklin 2024 longlist) by Jen Craig
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"Every new novel by Jen Craig is cause for celebration. They are a reminder that literature is still being written in the English language. In Wall, her brilliant third novel, Jen Craig deepens her proliferative style of self-examination as her narrator tries to contend with that most heart wrenching of ...Show more
Vanity Fierce by Aitken Graeme
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Graeme Aitken's last novel was fabulous...in fifty ways. This novel is fabulous in fifty different ways...bitchy, funny, camp, tender, vain, glamorous, capricious, seductive...like Sydney itself where this tale of the city is set. The ultimate comic novel of gay Sydney - Armistead Maupin meets Melrose ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
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 Weekend by Charlotte Wood
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things. Shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now . . . Despite the three women knowing ea ...Show more
Depth of Field by Kirsty Iltners
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In photography, you don’t get to have it all. You are always making choices, always making sacrifices.To capture the light.Tom’s longest-standing commitment is his run-down house Mayfield, which hasn’t been the same since Adeline. He’s stuck in the past drowning his sorrows in too many bottles of wine a ...Show more
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Eventful, atmospheric, deliciously complex' New York Times 'Elegant and highly accomplished . . . dangerously readable . . . If only all novels were this engaging and this perceptive about human nature' The Guardian'A literary potboiler about love, obsession, professional rivalry between intimates and ...Show more
Host City by David Owen Kelly
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Darlinghurst, Sydney: these are the days of strange rumours. Talk you can catch the gay plague from kissing, or from a mosquito bite. Talk of the government building a wall around ‘Darlo' to keep the plague contained. Talk of old quarantine stations around Australia being reopened, of the army being use ...Show more
Compassion: The sequel to Benevolence by Julie Janson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
‘You can’t enslave us all, Captain!’ I yelled into his face. ‘We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...’From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA) and the Barbara Jefferis Award shortlisted Benevolence, Compassion contin ...Show more
The Glass House: A Novel of Mental Health by Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A compelling, addictive novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine told with heart, humour and insight by Anne Buist and The Rosie Project's Graeme Simsion. Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. ...Show more
Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not by Imbi Neeme
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A charming, nostalgic, quirky, uplifting novel of people young and old finding their tribe, gaining courage to be themselves and perhaps falling in love, too. Librarian Phoebe Cotton lives with misophonia. The sound of other people crunching an apple, slurping their tea or snapping chewing gum fills he ...Show more
Late: A Novel by Michael Fitzgerald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'So, was it hard to pretend I was "dead"? Well, my motivation was abundant; it was splendiferous, endless, you might say.'An American actress, renowned for being late, is living with her two cats in a modernist clifftop apartment in Sydney in the late 1980s. The recounting of her story is prompted by th ...Show more