Delphi by Clare Pollard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Delphi is a mesmerising story of our pasts, our presents and our futures, and how we keep on living in a world that is ever-more uncertain and absurd.It is 2020 and in a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the ancient world ...Show more
First Blood by Amelie Nothomb
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A gentle homage to the man who gave her life WINNER: Strega European Prize A best book of 2021 - Le Parisien The Republic of the Congo, 1964. A young man is facing a firing squad, preparing for his last moment on Earth. He reflects on his childhood with a distant mother, and the moments which have le ...Show more
Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the incomparable Meg Rosoff, bestselling author of How I Live Now and The Great Godden, comes an alluring coming-of-age tale about the summer that changes everything. New York City. June, 1982. When eighteen-year-old Beth arrives in Manhattan for a prestigious journalism internship, everything feel ...Show more
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Delightful banter, hot romance and a love story that's worthy of the big screen' Kate Spencer, author of In a New York MinuteTen years later and she still has butterflies. But does he feel the same way?Then. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former classmates are nabbing high-p ...Show more
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love - a sharply funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship, and how to survive both. Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he c ...Show more
House of Longing by Tara Calaby
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An irresistible sapphic historical romance from a dazzling new Australian talent. Charlotte has always known she is different. Where other young women see their destiny in marriage and motherhood, the reclusive Charlotte wants only to work with her father in his stationery business; perhaps even run it ...Show more
Hydra (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Adriane Howell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'From the treacherous auction houses of Melbourne to the sun-struck islands of Greece, Hydra took me places I never expected to go. Adriane Howell writes with the dreamy precision of Marguerite Duras, the humour-laced disquiet of Patricia Highsmith. A fever dream of a debut - elegant, savage, and deligh ...Show more
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
Kala by Colin Walsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They- ...Show more
Killing Darcy by Melissa Lucashenko
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
First published in 1998 and written for young adults, a tale of murder and prejudice from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Too Much Lip.Angry young Koori Darcy Mango is on parole and looking for his mob in Northern New South Wales. Befriending the Menzies family wasn't at all what he had in mi ...Show more
Lessons by Ian McEwan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a res ...Show more
Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernieres
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. An entertaining novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is immine ...Show more