Staff Picks > Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
Leesa loves books and people. So running a bookshop that brings her two favourite things together is literally a dream come true! Connecting readers with new books and holding space for the community to assemble (virtually or IRL) brings her unending joy.
** Leesa's Little Bookroom Favourites **
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2 by Deborah Levy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction From the twice-Booker-shortlisted author comes a witty and audacious examination of writing and womanhood "Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it toge ...Show more
The Furies: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Mandy Beaumont
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure tha ...Show more
The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award by Tara June Winch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the w ...Show more
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "Smile Mart" for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in ...Show more
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Must a girl always be a part?How can she become a whole?In the late 1970s, in the forgotten outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. A sinister new man has joined the family. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block.The family is unde ...Show more
Lanny by Max Porter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to families dead for generat ...Show more
May We Be Forgiven by A M Homes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction--A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always "compelling, devastating, and furiously good" (Zadie Smith) Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful ...Show more
Milkman by Anna Burns
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes "interesting," the ...Show more
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
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
Outline: A Novel (Outline trilogy #1) by Rachel Cusk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from ...Show more
People from My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
$24.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction. Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it w ...Show more
Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng
$22.99 AUD
Category: Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
By the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might b ...Show more