Staff Picks
Check out what our Booksellers have been enjoying, click on the title to read a staff review!
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
Clear (HB) 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
DallerGut Dream Department Store: The Joyfully Magical Korean Bestseller by Miye Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dallergut Dream Department Store Ser.
|| THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD|| In a mysterious town that lies hidden in our collective subconscious, there's a quaint little store where all kinds of dreams are sold . . . Day and night, visitors both human and animal from all over the world shuffle in sleepily in their ...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
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Enter the players. There were seven of us then, seven bright young things with wide precious futures ahead of us. Until that year, we saw no further than the books in front of our faces.' On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborn ...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
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
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"***The hilarious and heartbreaking new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN and SCENES OF A GRAPHIC NATURE*** 'If you've ever built your life and your personality around a friend; if you've ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time... In sho ...Show more
August Blue by Deborah Levy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home 'If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitte ...Show more
On Animals by Susan Orlean
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." --The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." --San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." --The Boston Globe Susan Orlean--the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national tre ...Show more
Rose and the Burma Sky by Rosanna Amaka
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For readers of Yaa Gyasi, Esi Edugyan, Toni Morrison, Pat Barker and Madeline Miller - a gripping and intimate historical novel of a black soldier's experience in the Second World War - a rare, moving and authentic tale of love and sacrifice by the acclaimed author of THE BOOK OF ECHOES. One war, one s ...Show more
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient mysteries, and one woman's quest to seize a final chance at glory... A pirate of infamy and one of the most storied and sc ...Show more