We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understand her teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting ...Show more
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two. Jena Lin plays the violin. She was once a child prodigy and now uses sex to fill the void left by fame. She's struggling a little. Her professional life comprises rehearsals, concerts, auditions and r ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
A Treacherous Country (Winner 2020 Australian Vogel's Literary Award) by K. M. Kruimink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL'S LITERARY AWARD There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's de ...Show more
A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People' MEG MASON, author of SORROW AND BLISS A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about love, sex, power and desire, by a major new British talent Anna is struggling to afford life in London as she trains to be a singer. During the ...Show more
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The New York Times bestseller 'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls Coming of age isn't just for kids. Astrid Strick has always tried to do her best for her three children. Now, they're finally grown up - but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Elliot d ...Show more
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
At thirty-six, Joan knows more than most of the price of pleasure, the quotidian horror of being a woman at the mercy of a man. She knows men, too - their penchant for cruelty, the violence she has absorbed over decades that now threatens to burst from her own hands. Reeling from the public suicide of ...Show more
Animals (FTI) by Emma Jane Unsworth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'There's no ceremony for friendship, is there?''Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.'Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change when Laura gets engaged to the man of Tyler's nightmares. Can their friendship survive? Or will growing up mean growin ...Show more
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Lucy Barton #2
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Winner of The Story Prize - A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book - One of USA Today's top 10 ...Show more
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
NATIONAL BESTSELLER *** A TIME TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "Asymmetry is extraordinary...Halliday has written, somehow all at once, a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas and a politically engaged work of metafiction." --Alice Gregory, The New ...Show more
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition- a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American s ...Show more
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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