An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb by Louise Wolhuter
$22.95 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
Jessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a certain quiet time and the start of a more complicated living. Winifred is a small town full of prejudices a ...Show more
Anam: Winner PM's Literary Award 2024. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin by André Dao
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miles Franklin Longlist 2024
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the g ...Show more
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern 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
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: very good
An instant number 1 New York Times bestseller and touching new comedy from the author of multi-million copy bestseller A Man Called Ove In a small town in Sweden it appears to be an ordinary day. But look more closely, and you'll see a masked figure approaching a bank...Two hours later, chaos has descen ...Show more
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. Now that Joy and Stan have sold the family business they have all the time in the world to learn how to 'relax'. Their four adult children are busy living their own lives, and while it could be argued they never quite achieved the ...Show more
Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel by Sophie Green
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
Sophie Green, Top Ten bestselling author of The Bellbird River Country Choir and Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society, returns with a warm-hearted new novel about friendships, fresh starts and finding yourself. Mornington Peninsula, 1999. Wife and now grandmother Joan has checked into the grand ...Show more
As Swallows Fly by L.P. McMahon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
When Malika, a young orphan in rural Pakistan, is savagely attacked, her face is left disfigured and her self-esteem destroyed. A few years later, her intellectual brilliance is discovered and she leaves conflict-stricken Pakistan for a better education in Melbourne where she finds herself placed with K ...Show more
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
He asked the water to lift him, to carry him, to avenge him. He made his muscles shape his fury, made every stroke declare his hate. And the water obeyed; the water would give him his revenge. No one could beat him, no one came close... His whole life, Danny Kelly's only wanted one thing: to win Olympic ...Show more
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but l ...Show more
Becky by Sarah May
$34.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
Becky Sharp is determined. Determined to get away from the dead-end town where she grew up, determined to make a place for herself in high society, and determined to reach the top of the career ladder. And she doesn’t care how many lives she ruins in the process. Set in 90s tabloid-era London, Becky cha ...Show more
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Series: Tales from the Café #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more