Staff Picks
Check out what our Booksellers have been enjoying, click on the title to read a staff review!
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba--the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people--and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Ne ...Show more
Clear by Carys Davies
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A wondrous tale of bonds forged when two men are pitted against each other on a remote island during the Highland Clearances, from the prize-winning author of West. 1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on th ...Show more
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exhilarating, fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art, and of daring to dream of something bigger than ourselves. 'Bold and totally unexpected, I loved this book' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain ... 'A very special, very clever, very entertaining novel' Roddy Doyle, author of Padd ...Show more
Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A warm, witty and wise novel for anyone who has ever worried that they might be a terrible person, from the author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead. Enid is many things: lesbian, serial dater, deaf in one ear, space obsessive, true crime fanatic. When she's not listening to grizzly murder ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her mome ...Show more
Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Following Grudova's critically acclaimed collection The Doll's Alphabet, this surreal, discomforting debut novel charts the fates of a ragtag group of cinema workers who are spat out by corporate takeover. Longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - o ...Show more
Foster by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her fat ...Show more
Madwoman by Louisa Treger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
**A HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES**___________________________'A moving story' SUNDAY TIMES, Best historical fiction books of 2022'A must read!' GILL PAUL'Intriguing ... A fascinating read' HAZEL GAYNOR'Remarkable' ESSIE FOX'An astonishing tour de force' REBECCA M ...Show more
Shame by Annie Ernaux
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. Wi ...Show more
The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The charming international bestseller about books and the power of reading. There's a book written for every one of us... Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, care ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Athena Liu is a literary darling. Juniper Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name June Song. But as evidence threatens Juniper's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she ...Show more