The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed ...On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but ins ...Show more
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: Literary Ficton
The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait is a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in all its beauty and brutality. Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As th ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth Church
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
fA luminous and enthralling story of birds and science, ambition and sacrifice, revolutions - both big and small - and the late-blooming of an unforgettable woman. I first loved him because he taught me the flight of a bird. I was too young to realise that what I really yearned to know was why birds tak ...Show more
The North Water by Ian McGuire
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the ...Show more
The Soldier's Curse: Book One, The Monsarrat Series by Tom Keneally, Meg Keneally
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Category: Literary Ficton | Series: MONSARRAT SERIES
In the Port Macquarie penal settlement for second offenders, at the edge of the known world, gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat hungers for freedom. Originally transported for forging documents passing himself off as a lawyer, he is now the trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant. His position has ce ...Show more
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated" Books of 2018 Evoking the sharp insight of Little Fires Everywhere and the sweep of NW, an incisive portrait of the bliss and torment of domestic love. Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights w ...Show more
First Person by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Literary Ficton
'Flanagan's best work to date.' - Readings MagazineWhat is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect.About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of millions, con man and ...Show more
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
'One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 . . . A glorious novel, meditative and special' Hannah Kent, author of BURIAL RITES Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in the final stages of a terminal illness. She ...Show more
To Paradise: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Hanya Yanagihara
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Category: Literary Ficton
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022 'This magisterial follow-up to A Little Life offers three books in one . . . Yanagihara weighs up damage and privilege - social, emotional, political, colonial in a gripping, immersive ride through alternative Americas.' ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is ...Show more