The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther ...Show more
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia a ...Show more
The Lebs: Miles Franklin Literary Award Finalist by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad. 'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and over until finally I shout back, 'Shut up, I have something to say!' They all go quiet and wait for me to explain myself, redeem myself, ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and ...Show more
Winter by Ali Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 The dazzling second novel in Ali Smith's essential Seasonal Quartet -- from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both A Book of the Year according to: the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Evening Standard, The Times. 'Daz ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.
First Person by Richard Flanagan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined. Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, is rung in the midd ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize "For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her eve ...Show more
The Dry by Jane Harper
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Aaron Falk | Reading Level: very good
WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY? It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six- ...Show more
Autumn by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Autumn 2016 - Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. And the UK is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation ...Show more
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: trans Jennifer Croft | Reading Level: very good
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." --Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." --Washington Post From the incompa ...Show more