The Song of Achilles: The 10th Anniversary edition of the Women's Prize-winning bestseller by Madeline Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into so ...Show more
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe?'Brooks' mischievous retelling [of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath] dials up the feminist themes - and the fun - to 1 ...Show more
Naked Ambition by Robert Gott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'You're a politician, a public figure. What on earth were you thinking?' Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White - a painting she intends to enter in this year's Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of ...Show more
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more
Prize Women by Caroline Lea
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On his deathbed in 1920s Toronto, a wealthy man decides to make some trouble . . . An astonishing new novel based on one of history's most shocking untold stories, from the author of The Metal Heart Lily di Marco and Mae Thebault were once friends. They lived under the same roof and cared for each other ...Show more
The Traitor's Wife by Sarah Steele
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
HER HUSBAND BETRAYED HER COUNTRY. ONLY SHE CAN SAVE IT. -----The spellbinding new book from the USA Today bestselling author of The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale and The Paris LibraryInspired by the stories of the heroines of the Italian Resistance, this is a heart- ...Show more
Septology by Jon Fosse
$44.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-fa ...Show more
This Tender Land: A Novel by William Kent Krueger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, "a gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical overtones" (Bob Drury, New York Times bestselling author) that follows four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the New York Times bestselling a ...Show more
I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother--and of both women's strength and resiliency--recounts Annie's attempt to first help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease and, then, when that proves futile, bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own e ...Show more
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Alice Love surfaces from a strange dream to find she's been injured in a gym, her first concern is for her unborn baby. She's desperate to see her husband, Nick, who she knows will be worried about her. But Alice isn't pregnant. And Nick isn't exactly rushing to her bedside. She is a mother of thre ...Show more
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material ...Show more