Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking. A resonant and provocative novel about motherhood from the prize-winning author of The Devil I Know and Tenderwire 'Compelling . . This is a scorching read. I could not put it down.' ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil warSixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path as she watches those around her, including her four bel ...Show more
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Best Book of 2023 in The Times, Sunday Times, i-D, the Guardian When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the ""peasants"" - ordinary people, his reade ...Show more
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. An unforgettable story of artistry and unity under occupation. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with a ...Show more
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY, autho ...Show more
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
* Shortlisted for Fiction - 2023 Nero Book Awards *After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family...'Ambitious and original' DAVID NICHOLLS'Gripping... a triumph' SUNDAY TIMESIt's 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate, the finger o ...Show more
A Trace of Sun by Pam Williams
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Don't go Mammy please.' Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she bent over him; held him to her thumping chest. Tears sliding from her face to his. Raef is left behind in Grenada when his mother, Cilla, follows her husband to England in search of a better life. When t ...Show more
River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A darkly glittering literary debut that traces a mixed family's troubled trajectory through developing China. A mesmerising reversal of the east–west immigrant narrative set against China's economic boom, River East, River West is a deeply moving exploration of race, identity and family, of capitalism' ...Show more