Everything is Perfect by Maxine Fawcett
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
Cassandra seems to have it all - but behind her perfect fa ade she's barely hanging on. A captivating, honest and wry novel about a forty-something woman on the brink. Is it Peri? A midlife crisis? Or simply a cry for help? Cassie Prince lives in a beautiful beach suburb with her successful husband Jon ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional ( Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
The Glass House: A Novel of Mental Health by Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
A compelling, addictive novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine told with heart, humour and insight by Anne Buist and The Rosie Project's Graeme Simsion. Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. ...Show more
Tilda Is Visible: A novel about women, life and being seen by Jane Tara
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
A gorgeous, witty and wise novel celebrating older women and what it takes to embrace ourselves as we age, from Better Reading's Jane Tara. 'Pitch-perfect'. Kathy Lette 'There aren't many original story ideas, but Jane Tara has pulled off the almost impossible feat of writing one. Tilda Is Visible is fr ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Prize WINNER (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
No Church in the Wild by Murray Middleton
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
It's been five long years since violence erupted between young migrants and local police in Melbourne's inner west. A police-led trip to hike the Kokoda Trail hopes to rebuild relationships in the community, but as training gets underway, fresh allegations of racial profiling have everyone on a knife-ed ...Show more
The Players by Deborah Pike
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
An emotional journey through the lives of a group of university students as they fall in and out of friendship and love. In this dramatic coming-of-age story, bonds formed during an intense summer of rehearsals will be tested across decades. One hot summer, a group of university students gathers in an o ...Show more
Gunflower (Short Stories) by Laura Jean McKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of The Animals in That Country. A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship plows through the patriarchy. A support group finds sola ...Show more
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless ci ...Show more