Leesa's #QuarantineRead Recommendations

Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng

$29.99 AUD

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

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The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay

$29.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guid ...Show more

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Lanny by Max Porter

$24.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

From the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Longlisted for the Booker Prize 'Startling, moving and overwhelming . . . Wonderful.' Daily Telegraph 'A devastating, disquieting and exhilarating book.' Psychologies 'Books this good don't come along very often.' ...Show more

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The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha

$32.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

The Wandering's jumping-off point is the story of Dorothy and her ruby slippers, which readers are invited to slip on, allowing them to roam on a path of their own choosing between New York, Berlin, Jakarta, Lima and beyond. Sydney-based Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha has been heralded as one of a ...Show more

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Braised Pork by An Yu

$29.99 AUD

Category: Food

One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband - with whom she had been breakfasting barely an hour before - dead in the bathtub. Next to him a piece of paper unfolds like the wings of a butterfly, and on it is an image that Jia Jia can't forget. Pro ...Show more

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Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle

$29.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It's a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. We choose to breathe, don't we?Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her p ...Show more

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Grand Union by Zadie Smith

$32.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more

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Big Sky (#5 Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson

$19.99 AUD

Category: Fiction | Series: Jackson Brodie Ser.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- THE RETURN OF JACKSON BRODIE, 'LIKE ALL GOOD DETECTIVES, A HERO FOR MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE' (The Times) 'Big Sky is laced with Atkinson's sharp, dry humour, and one of the joys of the Brodie novels has always been that they are so funny' (Observer) Jackson Brodie ha ...Show more

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Bruny by Heather Rose

$32.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcomin ...Show more

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Outline (Outline Trilogy #1) PB by Rachel Cusk

$19.99 AUD

Category: Fiction

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

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The Secret Commonwealth (#2 Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman

$32.99 AUD

Category: Fiction | Series: The Book of Dust

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage- The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end ...Show more

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Figuring by Maria Popova

$27.99 AUD

Category: Cultural Studies

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and ...Show more

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