Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son Owen for time to w ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more
Promising Young Women by Caroline O'Donoghue
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'So brilliant . . . It couldn't really be more timely . . . I highly recommend it' Dolly Alderton'I loved it. The writing is whipsmart and so witty' Marian KeyesJane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far, Jane dissolves ...Show more
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Literature | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
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Category: Literature | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
The Good People by Hannah Kent
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The acclaimed second novel from award-winning author Hannah Kent, now with a stunning new cover. Shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017. Shortlisted for ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2017. Shortlisted for Indie Book Awards 2017.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She ...Show more
On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for an escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother's stories. Together they disappear into their imagination and forge a world where a patch of grass reveals an archaeologist's dig, t ...Show more
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are stil ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
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Category: Literature
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
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Category: Literature
Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary l ...Show more