Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A multi-award-winning story collection from bestselling Indigenous writer Tony Birch.Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because ...Show more
Bodies of Light: Winner of the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Jennifer Down
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2022 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD Shortlisted, Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2022Shortlisted, Stella Prize, 2022Shortlisted, Fiction, The Age Book of the Year Award, 2022Shortlisted, Barbara Jefferis Award, 2022Shortlisted, Adult crime novels, Sisters in Crime Davitt Awar ...Show more
Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Introducing an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Molly Schmidt, winner of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Salt River Road is a compelling coming-of-age novel about grief and healing set in a small town in the 1970s. In the aftermath of their mother's death, the Tetley siblings' li ...Show more
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (#1 Old World Police) by Garth Nix
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & fantasy | Series: Old World Police
This ABIA award-winning fantasy adventure set in 1980s London follows one girl's quest to find her father, leading her to a secret society of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World when it disastrously intrudes into the modern world. Eighteen-year-old art student Susan Arkshaw ar ...Show more
Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2016 QUEENSLAND PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZE Outside, the rain continues unceasing; silver sheets sluicing down ...Show more
Too Much Lip: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award by Melissa Lucashenko
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The darkly funny, unforgettable winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary AwardToo much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise ...Show more
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cele ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Robert Runs by Mariah Sweetman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young adult
**Winner of the Daisy Utemorrah Award 2022** Compulsory reading for early teens and young adults. Based on true events, this gripping thriller sheds light on the brutalities of the past whilst championing the heroes who survived. Robert Runs is a fast-paced thriller based on the author’s great-great gra ...Show more
My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & memoir
Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer living in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but 'not to worry - it wasn't like that scene in Fargo or anything'. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, h ...Show more