Julia 1984 by Sandra Newman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
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
My Friends by Hisham Matar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
By the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Return comes an astonishing new novel about friendship, set between London and Libya in the 1980s and the present Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh- two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of re ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Literature
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Athena Liu is a literary darling. Juniper Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name June Song. But as evidence threatens Juniper's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she ...Show more
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant ca ...Show more
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
The Great Undoing by Sharlene Allsopp
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on? In a near future all identity information is encoded in digital language. Nations know where everyone is, all the time. Not everyone agrees with this constant surveillance, and when the system is hijacked and shut down, all gl ...Show more
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
And Then She Fell is an unflinching and fiercely witty debut novel of Indigenous life, womanhood and mental health, heralding the arrival of an important and urgent new voice in genre-bending fiction. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful ba ...Show more
The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, grief, and what makes a home. The conversion was Nick's idea. Nick- so persuasive, ever the optimist, still boyishly handsome. Always on a quest to design the perfect environment, convinced it could heal ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown...The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his ...Show more