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The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity. The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who ...Show more
The Performance by Claire Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The breakout literary sensation of 2021, THE PERFORMANCE is a tightly woven examination of women's inner lives that is enthralling, profound and deeply human. The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the ne ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, wha ...Show more
O by Steven Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales...' Occupied France, 1943. France's most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a m ...Show more
The Frenchman by Jack Beaumont
$29.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
A gripping debut thriller based on the real-life experiences of a former French intelligence operative. Alec de Payns is an operative in the secretive Y Division of the DGSE, France's famed foreign intelligence service. He's the agent at the sharp end of clandestine missions, responsible for eliminatin ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marian ...Show more
Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan. In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn't have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coinc ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Wandering's jumping-off point is the story of Dorothy and her ruby slippers, which readers are invited to slip on, allowing them to roam on a path of their own choosing between New York, Berlin, Jakarta, Lima and beyond. Sydney-based Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha has been heralded as one of a ...Show more
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue finds a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying finds w ...Show more
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. A girl comes of age against the knife.' So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white m ...Show more
