Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The thrilling new novel from the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Luminaries, now in paperback. FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable ...Show more
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had th ...Show more
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie She will breathe a new empire into life - but all worlds can escape their ...Show more
Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls they were more than just cousins- they were an inseparable duo, prepared to do anything to protect one another. There was no such thing as a 'secret' between the two girls, who lived their entire childhoods side by side.Then Selasi begins to change. She becomes wi ...Show more
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, <i>The Magician</i> is a great imaginative achievement - immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized.' - Richard Ford When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, ...Show more
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking. A resonant and provocative novel about motherhood from the prize-winning author of The Devil I Know and Tenderwire 'Compelling . . This is a scorching read. I could not put it down.' ...Show more
Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves," they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom ...Show more
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
As foot and mouth disease spreads across the hills of Cumbria, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke, Steve Elliman and William Herne, two neighbouring farmers, join forces to reverse their fortunes by rustling livestock from the south. With the struggles of the land never far a ...Show more
Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Hernán Diaz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more
Pity by Andrew McMillan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The debut novel from award-winning poet Andrew McMillan exploring community, masculinity and post-industrialisation in Northern England