Staff Picks
Check out what our Booksellers have been enjoying, click on the title to read a staff review!
Tidelines by Sarah Sasson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tender coming-of-age novel about the stories we subconsciously write for ourselves, and what remains later, when we have the courage to tear them apart - from an extraordinarily talented debut writer, Sarah Sasson. For fans of Jennifer Down, Tim Winton's Breath and Favel Parrett's Past the Shallows. I ...Show more
But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei YU
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a campus novel set off campus, and a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwo ...Show more
Foster by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her fat ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infeste ...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
Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A warm, witty and wise novel for anyone who has ever worried that they might be a terrible person, from the author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead. Enid is many things: lesbian, serial dater, deaf in one ear, space obsessive, true crime fanatic. When she's not listening to grizzly murder ...Show more
Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Costa-shortlisted author of Montpelier Parade, a heart-breaking novel about finding - and losing - the person who understands you like nobody else. Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she fought the playground bullies for him. That day they ...Show more
Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Athena Liu is a literary darling. Juniper Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name June Song. But as evidence threatens Juniper's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she ...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
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
Just For The Summer (Part of Your World #3) by Abby Jimenez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Romance | Series: Part of Your World Ser.
To find their soulmates, all they need is four dates, a kiss and a breakup . . . Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they ...Show more