The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
Salt and Skin by Eliza Henry-Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
LONGLISTED for the INDIE AWARD for BEST FICTION Grief-stricken over the loss of her husband, Luda Managan and her two teenaged children try to make a home for themselves on a collection of harsh and haunted Scottish islands. Luda, a photographer, is mesmerised by the extraordinary magic of the island ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer th ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: good-very good
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funi ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
* Winner of New Zealand's Fiction Book of the Year 2023 A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour. Everywhere, the birds, but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree, and we're staying, and you need to leave and ...Show more
Love Interest by Clare Gilmore
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Love Interest is Clare Gilmore's sparkling debut, a co-worker enemies-to-lovers rom-com that proves falling in love is the risk and the reward. Casey Maitland has always preferred the reliability of numbers. Now a twenty-four-year-old finance expert working in Manhattan, she wonders if the open project ...Show more
Love by Roddy Doyle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A masterful novel about coming-of-age and finding love in Dublin's pubs, from the Booker-winning Roddy Doyle'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, ...Show more
Lady Tan's Circle Of Women by Lisa See
$35.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In 15th century China two women are born under the same sign, the Metal Snake. But life will take the friends on very different paths. According to Confucius, 'an educated woman is a worthless woman', but Tan Yunxian - born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separation and loneliness - is bein ...Show more
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. F ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been run ...Show more
North Woods by Daniel Mason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and inhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote him ...Show more
Willowman by Inga Simpson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Allan Reader, one of the last traditional batmakers in the country, keeps his family business alive in a small workshop in Melbourne. When Todd Harrow, a gifted young batter, catches Allan's eye, a spark is lit and Allan decides to make a Reader bat for him, selecting the best piece of willow he's harve ...Show more