The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Booker Prize Shortlist
Reviewed by Bookoccino owner, Raymond Bonner. Unforgettable characters, from the streets of San Francisco to inside women’s prisons. As realistic as non-fiction; as well written as the most captivating fiction. Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dia ...Show more
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
What price do we pay for freedom? In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they're soon discovered by the land's owner, G ...Show more
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"A compelling and vivid look at the friendships we make as women. Honest, unsettling and, like all good literature, had me asking questions about life and myself." Heather Rose, austhor of The Museum of Modern Love, winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. People went on about death bringing friends together, b ...Show more
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of PAST THE SHALLOWS and WHEN THE NIGHT COMES. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a ma ...Show more
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gifty is the younger child in a family of four who have emigrated from Ghana to the American South. While her gorgeous brother is a sports hero, her father longs to return home and her mother is desperate to hold this family of four together. When Gifty's brother's glorious success on the basketball cou ...Show more
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Winner Costa Novel Award 2021 Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. Inside its walls they make music, in its ...Show more