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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
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Category: Literature
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marian ...Show more
The Belvedere Woman by Ian Callinan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Thirty years had passed since the 1950s and Sandra Rentle knows she is trapped in a fast-fading world of old money and snobbery. Her youthful attempt to evade the expectations of her parents had been nipped in the bud. She had since clung to the memory that she had been offered an escape by an ambitious ...Show more
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
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Category: Literature
For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel wh ...Show more
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
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Category: Literature
One of The Washington Post's 50 Most Notable Books of 2018. One of NPR's Best Books of 2018. One of Vanity Fair's Best Fall Books of 2018. "An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling stories about the past and the prese ...Show more
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
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Category: Literature
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s ...Show more
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
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Category: Literature
The debut novel from the author of Normal People. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her b ...Show more
Pure by Andrew Miller
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Category: Literature
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very bre ...Show more
How to be Both by Ali Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALISTWINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SALTIRE LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Financial TimesPassionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulo ...Show more
Home by Marilynne Robinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Gilead
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearHailed as "incandescent," "magnificent, ...Show more
The Secret Commonwealth (#2 The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman
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Category: Literature | Series: Book of Dust
From the author of the phenomenal His Dark Materials trilogy comes the next chapter in the story of Lyra Silvertongue . . . Lyra Silvertongue is now studying at St Sophia's College, Oxford, with her daemon Pantalaimon. They are not getting on. Lyra is questioning everything she once held dear. Pan misse ...Show more