For Everything a Time by Mark McAvaney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
For everything there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens. After thirteen years it’s time for Mac to return home to face a past he’s been running from. A past his best friend Dave has been unable to escape. It was 1990, their final year of school and with an INXS ...Show more
Madukka the River Serpent (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Julie Janson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services.It took her thirty hours to complete online.Now, she has set up her own private investigation service: Yanakirri Investigative Services – Confidentiality Guaranteed.When environmental activist, Thommo, suddenly goes missin ...Show more
Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In this hilarious and horrific take on motherhood and womanhood, a young mother becomes embroiled in drama and danger when a local sex worker goes missing. New mother Dani has a lot going on. She's worried that her seemingly healthy husband, Clark, might drop dead, leaving her and her baby, Lotte, desti ...Show more
One Another by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Eminent Australian author Gail Jones examines the intersections of art and life via a fictionalised biography of Joseph Conrad in her distinctively immersive and rich prose. At Cambridge University, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis on Joseph Conrad. But she is di ...Show more
Ordinary Human Love by Melissa Goode
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The end of the affair is just the beginning. Mardi McKee, prodigal daughter, arrives at her father's home in Lithgow, Australia, after drifting overseas for eighteen months. Her previous life is a memory. Her mother has died, she is divorced and is estranged from her former lover, Ian. Mardi had left I ...Show more
Red Side Story (Shades of Grey #2) by Jasper Fforde
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find o ...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 River We Remember (PB) by William Kent Krueger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff ...Show more
Why Do Horses Run? by Cameron Stewart
$27.99 AUD
$32.99 (15% off)
Category: Literary Fiction
COLLINS BOOKSELLERS - FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pain who recognise that in others. He walked not feeling he was connected to the earth, but on the edge of something he couldn't reach. He pushed on through ...Show more
Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son Owen for time to w ...Show more
Bird Life: a novel by Anna Smaill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more