Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who f ...Show more
To Italy, with Love by Nicky Pellegrino
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'An uplifting and delicious taste of Italy' ERICA JAMES Love happens when you least expect it...Assunta has given up on love. She might run her little trattoria in the most romantic mountain town in Italy, but love just seems to have passed her by.Sarah-Jane is finished with love. She's hiring an old c ...Show more
Hovering by Rhett Davis
$33.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The city was in the same place. But was it the same city? Alice stands outside her family's 1950s red brick veneer, unsure if she should approach. It has been sixteen years, but it's clear she is out of options. Lydia opens the door to a familiar stranger - thirty-nine, tall, bony, pale. She knows her ...Show more
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Within a deca ...Show more
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A hilarious Japanese debut novel, where a young woman, thoroughly fed up with gendered expectations at work, announces she's pregnant. She's not. Thirty-four-year-old Ms Shibata works for a company manufacturing cardboard tubes and paper cores in Tokyo. Her job is relatively secure- she's a full-time em ...Show more
A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller. 'More than one ghost haunts this tender novel about love in its many guises, condoned and illicit. In his deceptively simple, lucid prose, Alex Miller examines the emotional contradictions inhe ...Show more
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating joyride. It is the story of an uprising, told by a bold, vivid chorus of animal voices that helps us see our human world more clearly A long time ago, in a bountiful land not so far away, the animal denizens lived quite happily. Then the colonisers arrived. Aft ...Show more
Magnolia Parks: TikTok made me buy it! The addictive romance sensation Book 1 by Jessa Hastings
$33.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Magnolia Parks Universe Ser.
HOW MANY LOVES DO YOU GET IN A LIFETIME?She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain's most photographed bad-boy who broke her heart.Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it.She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sl ...Show more
The Engagement by Chloe Hooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the author of the highly acclaimed A Child's Book of True Crime, "a brilliant, seductive, and unnerving first novel of sexual betrayal" (O, The Oprah Magazine), comes a dazzling, intense, and erotic second novel set in an isolated mansion in the country. Liese Campbell has an engagement for the ...Show more
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A witty, profound and painfully relatable debut novel exploring solitude, desire, and the allure of chasing something that promises nothing. Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditioned newsroom by day and kicking around Sydney ...Show more
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers. Despite their alluring ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
"Winner of the Queensland Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Prize.It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry, who joined the League i ...Show more