The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, f ...Show more
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ... 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam ca ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking. A resonant and provocative novel about motherhood from the prize-winning author of The Devil I Know and Tenderwire 'Compelling . . This is a scorching read. I could not put it down.' ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
$37.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every gener ...Show more
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Guardian and New Statesman book of the year, now in paperback - the fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness. When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. F ...Show more
Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Climate
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more
Traffic - Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral by Ben Smith
$60.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
"Engrossing and suspenseful." -The New York Times"Expertly pulls readers in." -The Guardian "Smith sharply chronicles the revolutionary moment." - Financial TimesThe origin story of the Age of Disinformation- the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed and N ...Show more
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cous ...Show more
Hospital (PB) by Sanya Rushdi
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the H ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more