Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more
Nightingale by Fiona McIntosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
A breathtaking novel of heartbreak and heroism, love and longing by a powerhouse Australian storyteller.'Love comes out of nowhere for most of us, when we least expect it.'Amidst the carnage of Gallipoli, British nurse Claire Nightingale falls in love with Australian Light Horseman Jamie Wren. Their fla ...Show more
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
The health and wellness retreat promises total transformation, and nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, while enjoying their hot stone massages in complete serenity. Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired bo ...Show more
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: very good
The health and wellness retreat at Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, while enjoying their hot stone massages in complete serenity. Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigora ...Show more
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
$16.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Incredibly thought-provoking Sun After years of cruel bullying from his classmates, Peter Houghton snaps one morning, and in nineteen minutes, ten residents of the town of Sterling are dead. When the case goes to trial, the reeling town is determined to seek justice for the ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: very 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 Marianne ...Show more
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: very good
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the world Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love Naoko sinks deeper into mental despair, h ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: very good
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's hi ...Show more
One Another by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
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 dis ...Show more
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Booker Prize Longlist 2024
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below. A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, cir ...Show more
Other Women by Cathy Kelly
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
'A burst of warmth and wit, twists and turns' MARIAN KEYES'This is Cathy Kelly on top form writing about warm, believable women with real, messy lives' RACHEL HORE'Other Women captures the stories of three modern women... A real feel-good read' HEAT'The brilliant storyteller is back with another perfect ...Show more
Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller by Min Jin Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: near fine
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity a ...Show more