Staff Picks
Check out what our Booksellers have been enjoying, click on the title to read a staff review!
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
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
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
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$26.95 AUD
Category: 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-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...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
Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Romance
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 c ...Show more
Shame by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. Wi ...Show more
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can solve Stephen's problems is dancing. Dancing at Church, with his parents and brother, the shimmer of Black hands ...Show more
The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The charming international bestseller about books and the power of reading. There's a book written for every one of us... Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, care ...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