Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer - now an instant Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Women''s Prize. ''Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extre ...Show more
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles together. We took up Christianity together. We entered into new citizenships together. We became wage workers together. We lived with generations upon generations stacked in fibro houses ...Show more
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Sometimes finding your place in the world is the greatest puzzle of all... Clayton Stumper is an enigma.He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your grandad and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by the sharpest m ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A generational saga and contemporary meditation on daughterhood and motherhood, fr ...Show more
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.'ALI SMITH'Entirely original.'STYLIST'Oyeyemi has mastered the art of bold, expansive storytelling.'IRENOSEN OKOJIE'A writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary.'INDEPENDENTThe new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oye ...Show more
Salt and Skin by Eliza Henry-Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
LONGLISTED for the INDIE AWARD for BEST FICTION Grief-stricken over the loss of her husband, Luda Managan and her two teenaged children try to make a home for themselves on a collection of harsh and haunted Scottish islands. Luda, a photographer, is mesmerised by the extraordinary magic of the island ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: good-very good
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funic ...Show more
Verity by Colleen Hoover
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A thriller guaranteed to keep you up all night, with a twist you'll never forget . . . The TikTok sensation that you'll recommend to everyone you know. Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselli ...Show more
Milking Time (PB) by Rachael Treasure
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Connie Mulligan, daughter of a fourth-generation Tasmanian dairy farmer, feels like she doesn't belong. She's out of sorts, and out of step - with her family, her community and her time, and it feels like nothing she does is right. But the story of how Connie Mulligan takes back control of her story and ...Show more
Love by Roddy Doyle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A masterful novel about coming-of-age and finding love in Dublin's pubs, from the Booker-winning Roddy Doyle'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, ...Show more
Love Interest by Clare Gilmore
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Love Interest is Clare Gilmore's sparkling debut, a co-worker enemies-to-lovers rom-com that proves falling in love is the risk and the reward. Casey Maitland has always preferred the reliability of numbers. Now a twenty-four-year-old finance expert working in Manhattan, she wonders if the open project ...Show more
Ugly Love: A Novel by Colleen Hoover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with a new heart-wrenching love story. When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in commo ...Show more