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What We're Reading
We all need stories, good stories.
Here are some that have kept us turning pages deep into the night.
If you've been talking to our booksellers in store, there's a good chance they've mentioned these books more than once.
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
$26.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The woman moves through the city, her city, on her own. She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in a waiting room; pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded s ...Show more
The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be, it's no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she's taken to become the writer that she is. Animated by the spirit of the po t ...Show more
Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. ...Show more
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. Her name was ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, wha ...Show more
Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A couple drive from London to coastal Provence. Anya is preoccupied with what she feels is a relationship on the verge; unequal, precarious. Luke, reserved, stoic, gives away nothing. As the sun sets one evening, he proposes, and they return to London engaged. But planning a wedding does little to se ...Show more
The Midnight Library (PB) by Matt Haig
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Mi ...Show more
Midnight Chicken - & Other Recipes Worth Living For by Ella Risbridger; Elisa Cunningham (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Food & Drink
'A manual for living and a declaration of hope' Nigella Lawson There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken. Because one night, Ella found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up - and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of e ...Show more
Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A riotous novel about sex and money set in the electric world of Soho, featuring a group of sex workers, a billionaire Russian oligarch, a nearly over-the-hill actor, junkie vagabonds, a once far-right extremist and a very glamorous borzoi Pungent, steamy, insatiable Soho; the only part of London tha ...Show more
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Dropbear interrogates the complexities of colonial and personal history with an alte ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a womanWhen I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating.As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three sma ...Show more
Saga Land: The Island of Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler; Kari Gislason
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who se ...Show more
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