Entitlement: The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind - 'the book of an era' (Independent) These characters, their money, and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap (KILEY REID, bestselling author of Come and Get It). Money talks, but what if it lies? An ...Show more
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
A big-hearted, compassionate novel about three generations of women preparing for a living wake - from award-winning poet and author Elizabeth Acevedo Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. When she decides she wants a living wake - a party to bring her family and communit ...Show more
Fire Along the Sky (#4 Wilderness) by Sara Donati
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Series: Into the Wilderness Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic frontier tale of love and adventure that began with the bestselling Into the Wilderness continues with an indomitable woman's journey across a young nation threatened by the flames of war. The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has come home to the mountain cabin in Paradise where she grew up with ...Show more
First Year ( 2024 Vogel Award Winner) by Kristina Ross
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
At seventeen, Maeve is naively single-minded about pursuing a life in the theatre. After a rigorous audition process, she secures a position at one of the most competitive drama schools in the country. Leaving behind the security of her childhood home in Queensland, Maeve moves to Melbourne and devotes ...Show more
Flames by Robbie Arnott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
"A strange and joyous marvel" Richard FlanaganFor readers of Jennifer Egan, Evie Wyld, Sara Baume and David Szalay.Robbie Arnott's mad, wild debut novel is rough-hewn from the Tasmanian landscape and imbued with the folkloric magic of the oldest fireside storytellers.A young man named Levi McAllister de ...Show more
Floodtide by Judy Nunn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
Four men. One unbreakable friendship. Forged in the mighty Iron Ore State. Floodtide is the story of Mike, Spud, Pembo and Murray, and the friendship that binds them over four memorable decades in Western Australia. The prosperous 1950s when childhood is idyllic in the small city of Perth... The turbule ...Show more
Forgotten on Sunday by Valerie Perrin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: very good
At once melancholic and humorous, a story of past, present and undeclared love, and friendship across the generations. From the million copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers. An unforgettable story of an unlikely friendship and the scars of a broken past. "An endearing and original heroine, ...Show more
Foster by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her fat ...Show more
Frankie by Graham Norton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
London, 2024. Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York artists on the brink of fame, aspiring w ...Show more
From the Ashes by Deborah Challinor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Series: The\Restless Years Ser.
In 1950s Auckland things are changing - and fast. Women are joining the workforce in numbers, white goods are readily available and the age of rock 'n' roll has arrived.Allie Manaia works the Elizabeth Arden counter at Smith and Caugheys. It's been two years since the Dunbar and Jones fire, where some o ...Show more
Funny Ethnics by Shirley Le
$29.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share house in the inner west, and cackled. Funny Ethnics catapults readers into the sprawling city-within-a-city that is Western Sydney ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 by Bernardine Evaristo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more