The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
$22.99 AUD
Category: Award winners
The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling new book from Evie Wyld, winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fat ...Show more
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER 2022 Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman's turbulent life So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or- he'd found Maggie.I had no wa ...Show more
Killernova (PB) by Omar Musa
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of poetry and wood carvings that burns blindingly bright.The island of Borneo was once the most heavily wooded in the world, and its people have always carved wood beautifully. In KILLERNOVA, grappling with his heritage, Omar Musa remixes this ancient art form with fiery poetry forged in th ...Show more
Bring Up the Bodies (#2 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Award winners | Series: Wolf Hall Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. With this historic win for 'Bring Up the Bodies', Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes (her first was for 'Wolf H ...Show more
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & fantasy | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL - Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale. HUGO AWARD FINALIST - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$19.99 AUD
Category: Award winners | Reading Level: near fine
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & thrillers
Winner Indie Awards 2022 for FictionFrom the author of the international bestseller Migrations comes a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish HighlandsInti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team tasked with reintroducing fourteen grey wolves into the remote High ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Award winners
Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown ...Show more
Terciel and Elinor (Old Kingdom Prequel) by Garth Nix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Young adult | Series: Old Kingdom
Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, and the charter magic that brought them together - and threatened to tear them apart. A long-awaited prequel to a classic fantasy series. In the Old Kingdom, a land o ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The bestselling and award-winning novel from the author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vi ...Show more