Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
$22.99 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.
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
$32.99 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
Chloe by Katrina Kell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A riveting novel based on the true story of the brave, enigmatic young woman who modelled for one of Australia's most famous paintings. Taking the reader from Victoria's wild shipwreck coast to the artists' studios of revolutionary Paris and the bloody battlefields of Flanders, this sweeping novel reim ...Show more
One Another by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eminent Australian author Gail Jones examines the intersections of art and life via a fictionalised biography of Joseph Conrad in her distinctively immersive and rich prose. At Cambridge University, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis on Joseph Conrad. But she is di ...Show more
Hospital (PB) (Miles Franklin longlist 2024) by Sanya Rushdi
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Melissa Lucashenko
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
The Deed by Susannah Begbie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Now that's the way to bury your old man ... he sank into his Jason recliner, wincing. A burial: a body wrapped in handwoven cloth, women dancing and wailing. Too much, in Tom's opinion, but at least they were mourning. To hell with that, at least they showed up.' Tom Edwards is dying, and cranky. He's ...Show more
The Two Loves of Sophie Strom by Sam Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A timeless, heart-wrenching story about love in the face of indoctrination and tragedy - perfect for fans of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Lovely Bones, and Life After Life. A house fire, Vienna, 1933: thirteen-year-old Max is orphaned, disfigured and adopted by an Aryan family who change his ide ...Show more
The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dark and dazzling debut from a beguiling new voice - for fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry. Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unh ...Show more
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant ca ...Show more
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An unforgettable story of love, faith and science, Enlightenment is Sarah Perry's finest novel to date 'A complete masterwork' SARAH HALL, author of The Electric Michelangelo 'Enlightenment is a gift' SE N HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide Thomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers ...Show more
A Life of Her Own by Ellen Feldman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When life doesn't give you a happily ever after ... New York City, 1945. The war is over, the men are coming home and life can go back to normal for young Fanny Fabricant. But when she loses her rosy future in a single instant, she is forced to reinvent her life and raise her daughter alone by sheer wi ...Show more