Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2013 STEELE RUDD AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 KIBBLE AWARD From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again ...Show more
Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane by Melissa Lucashenko
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
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
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Leap comes an unforgettable new novel about fathers and sons, and the damage that can ripple through generations. 'Frank feared a reckoning, but what he feared more was that all the men in his family were cursed. And that however hard he tried to be good, h ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged si ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary 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 Revenge Club: the wickedly witty new novel from a million copy bestselling author by Kathy Lette
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A subversive, irreverent revenge romp from the wickedly witty mind of Kathy Lette. Best friends Matilda, Penny, Sofia and Jo are approaching their sixties with flair until, one by one, their bubbles are burst. Matilda, a bestselling novelist, is dropped by her publisher; Penny is cut from her prime-time ...Show more
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
Day by Michael Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabe ...Show more
Go Lightly: The funny, sharp and heartfelt bisexual love story by Brydie Lee-Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Sharp and funny and humane ... Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth and wit.' Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually WHO IS ADA? With Sadie she's an Aussie girl in London, a performer, a ball of creativity and a lover of food. With Stuart she's funny and quirky, capa ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
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