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
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is our dancing time. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born and raised. A young woman unsure of her future, the sound is her guide - a chance to discover who she re ...Show more
big beautiful female theory (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Eloise Grills
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
big beautiful female theory is an anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before. Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, it is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. With breathtaking honesty an ...Show more
Forty Nights (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Pirooz Jafari
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This story came to me and entered my soul. It did not need a key or an invite, for it already belonged. It walked in, shook my foundation and set my heart on fire. We danced around the flames and with every twirl, I grabbed a few words until I was burnt to ashes. Tishtar runs a small legal practice in ...Show more
The Furies: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Mandy Beaumont
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure tha ...Show more
A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson, Nichola Smalley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control? A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected. In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it is this moment their father chooses to reveal his affair. Pandemonium ensue ...Show more
Pod: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION by Laline Paull
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Laline Paull succeeds splendidly in rising to the most important literary challenge of our time - restoring voice and agency to other-than-human beings' Amitav Ghosh'A pacy, provocative tale of survival in a fast-changing marine landscape' Daily MailBestselling author Laline Paull returns with an immer ...Show more
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1996 - Cabramatta, Sydney. 'Just let him go.' Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. T ...Show more
Is Mother Dead? by Vigdis Hjorth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Verso Fiction Ser.
To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial pain ...Show more
The Lovers (Miles Franklin Award Shortlist 2023) by Yumna Kassab
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other's moods like the seasons cycled in a day? What happens when you are tired of me and I tire of you?Every couple has a story. How they met, how they fell in love - their ups, their downs. What made them wan ...Show more
Waypoints by Adam Ouston
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1910 the famed escapologist Harry Houdini made an ill-fated attempt to become the first person to fly an aircraft over Australian soil—yet while Houdini is remembered today for his failure, the true record-holder has been forgotten. This quirk of history becomes the focus for the obsessions of Berna ...Show more
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'WOW. Western Lane is glorious. You'll want to read it over and over again.' - Aravind Adiga, author of The White TigerA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hol ...Show more