| Author: | Trent Dalton |
| Category: |
Popular Fiction |
| Awards: | Longlisted Miles Franklin 2019 Winner ABIA Book of the Year 2019 Winner ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2019 Winner Matt Richell New Writer of the Year 2019 Winner Audio Book of the Year 2019 Winner UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing - NSW Premier's Awards 2019 Winner Debut Fiction Australian Indie Awards 2019 Winner Book of the Year Australian Indie Awards 2019 |
An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, ... read more
| Author: | Margaret Atwood |
| Category: |
Literary Ficton |
| Series: | The Handmaid's Tale |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 |
The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her - freedom, prison or death. With The Testame... read more
| Author: | Alice Bishop |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
Before the bushfires--before the front of flames comes roaring over the hills--the ridges are thick with gums. After the fires, the birds have gone. There is only grey ash and melted metal, the blackened husks of cars. And the lost people: in temporary accommodation on the outskirts... read more
| Author: | Ocean Vuong |
| Category: |
Literary Ficton |
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.
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| Author: | Adrian McKinty |
| Category: |
Crime and Thriller |
| Reading Level: | 2 Crime |
You just dropped off your child at the bus stop. A panicked stranger calls your phone. Your child has been kidnapped.The stranger then explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger. The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another... read more
| Author: | Colson Whitehead |
| Category: |
Literary Ficton |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
THE NICKEL BOYS is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, in which he dramatizes another strand of ... read more
| Author: | Lucy Treloar |
| Category: |
Literary Ficton |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation...
Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty ha... read more
| Author: | Joe Abercrombie |
| Category: |
Science and Fantasy |
Introducing a cast of unforgettable new characters, A LITTLE HATRED is the start of a brand new trilogy set in the world of the First Law which will have you gripped from the very start . . .
War. Politics. Revolution. The Age of Madness has arrived .... read more
| Author: | Alix E. Harrow |
| Category: |
Science and Fantasy |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
In the early 1900s, a young woman searches for her place in the world after finding a mysterious book in this captivating, lyrical debut.
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the war... read more
| Author: | Markus Zusak |
| Category: |
Popular Fiction |
| Reading Level: | very good |
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father h... read more
| Author: | Deborah Levy |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
| Awards: | Longlisted Booker Prize 2019 |
In 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Rd crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where he will have more sex (with several members of the same family), harvest mushrooms in th... read more
| Author: | J. D. Robb |
| Category: |
Crime and Thriller |
| Series: | In Death Ser. |
'If you're a crime fiction fan and haven't discovered them yet, welcome to the very best day of your life' Heat
When a family man is tortured, killed and left in front of his family home for all the world to see, Eve Dallas knows she is on the hunt for... read more
