Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane by Melissa Lucashenko
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
Small Things Like These (HB) by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020)It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces i ...Show more
Hospital (PB) by Sanya Rushdi
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Fiction
The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright. Accompanied by new editions of Wright’s classic novels, Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to be released by Giramondo in May 2023. Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending hi ...Show more
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
'Brilliant wit, real heart and electric humour' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 'A compelling hurricane of a book' Ann Patchett 'A welcome reminder of what fiction can do’ Rumaan Alam A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism, generatio ...Show more
Hydra (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Adriane Howell
$29.99 AUD
Category: 2023 Stella Prize Longlist
'From the treacherous auction houses of Melbourne to the sun-struck islands of Greece, Hydra took me places I never expected to go. Adriane Howell writes with the dreamy precision of Marguerite Duras, the humour-laced disquiet of Patricia Highsmith. A fever dream of a debut - elegant, savage, and deligh ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category
'I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.' Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia-finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to 'exotic' beauty, Luna reinvent ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the H ...Show more