The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult
'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at the core Haydar gives us truths about love. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.' Bri Lee'I am from a family of strong women.'Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mo ...Show more
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition. A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and sma ...Show more
Me in Search of You: I promise there's more to it. by Jenna Langbaum
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A wildly entertaining collection of micro fiction stories that delve into the hope, dismissal, frustration, angst, revival, and mediocrity of dating as a millennial and seeking real connection. Wistful and reminiscent, written for all the mes searching for yous and all the ones who have already found ea ...Show more
Roots: Home is Who We Are: Voices from the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition by SBS Emerging Writers' Competition
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Roots brings us thirty of the best short memoirs chosen from more than 2000 entries in the inaugural SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition. Offering a snapshot of contemporary Australia, this diverse collection of stories explores love, family, loss, culture, sexual awakening and the abiding connections to ...Show more
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You ...Show more
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR'Impressive' The Times'Funny and pitch perfect' Sunday Express'I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration' Stephen Fry'These stories are a hit' Financial Times A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II vetera ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pit ...Show more
Mammoth by Chris Flynn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a pterodactyl, a preh ...Show more
The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
$32.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
In the first year of the doomed German invasion of Russia in WWII, a German military doctor, Paul Bauer, is assigned to establish a field hospital at Yasnaya Polyana - the former grand estate of Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of the classic War and Peace. There he encounters a hostile aristocratic Russia ...Show more
The Last Bookshop by Emma Young
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cait is a bookshop owner and book nerd whose social life revolves around her mobile bookselling service hand-picking titles for elderly clients, particularly the grandmotherly June. After a tough decade for retail, Book Fiend is the last bookshop in the CBD, and the last independent retailer on a street ...Show more
Friends and Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A group of housemates in Sydney's inner city contend with gentrification, divisive politics, loss, grief, their own complicated privilege as second-generation Australians, the evolving world of dating and work in this wry debut. Losing a father isn't easy. Neither is the split existence you live afterwa ...Show more