The Story Thief by Kyra Geddes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An elegant blend of fact and fiction, The Story Thief is a stirring drama set against pivotal moments in Australian history, about a young woman who discovers her family's story has been appropriated by Henry Lawson for his famous tale, The Drover's Wife. 'Brimming with evocative, authentic detail, The ...Show more
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
An unforgettable story of love, faith and science, Enlightenment is Sarah Perry's finest novel to date 'A complete masterwork' SARAH HALL, author of The Electric Michelangelo 'Enlightenment is a gift' SE N HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide Thomas Hart and Grace Macauley are fellow worshippers ...Show more
The Revenge Club: the wickedly witty new novel from a million copy bestselling author by Kathy Lette
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A subversive, irreverent revenge romp from the wickedly witty mind of Kathy Lette. Best friends Matilda, Penny, Sofia and Jo are approaching their sixties with flair until, one by one, their bubbles are burst. Matilda, a bestselling novelist, is dropped by her publisher; Penny is cut from her prime-time ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day -- in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up -- she doesn't know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed. On ...Show more
The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The whole world disappears when you enter The Silence factory. Henry dreams of silence. A world without the clattering of carriages through cobbled streets, the distant cries of drunken brawls, the relentless ticking of the clock. Then he meets a fascinating, mysterious gentleman who sells just that. P ...Show more
Mothering Heights: A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood by Rachael Mogan McIntosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A comedy, tragedy and farcical romp all rolled into one, Mothering Heights is a year-in-the-life love story about becoming a mother from the hilarious author of Pardon My French, Rachael Mogan McIntosh. For fans of ABC TV's The Letdown, Nina Stibbe's Love, Nina and Alison Pearson's I Don't Know How She ...Show more
The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Darkly funny family drama about transphobia, political identity and family dynamics. Perfect for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh and The Dinner by Herman Koch. Linda Taylor is livestreaming her glamourous life as an alternative health guru when she trips over in front of her f ...Show more
Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Named a Best Book of Spring 2023 by the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the Chicago Review of Books, Ms. Magazine, BookPage and BookBub A Most Anticipated Title according to Sydney Morning Herald, Salon, NB Magazine and SheReads Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict. But what h ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
Like Fire-Hearted Suns by Melanie Joosten
$34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The cost of freedom is sacrifice London, 1908. It's the dawn of a new century and change is in the air.When 17-year-old Beatrice Taylor stumbles across the offices of the infamous Pankhursts and the Women's Social and Political Union she begins to realise her future may not be the one she wants.Her frie ...Show more
Water Baby by Chioma Okereke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
She's the Pearl of Makoko and the world is her oyster.In Makoko, the floating slum off mainland Lagos, Nigeria, nineteen-year-old Baby yearns for an existence where she can escape the future her father has planned for her. With opportunities scarce, Baby jumps at the chance to join a newly launched dron ...Show more