Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualiti ...Show more
Black and Blue: a memoir of racism and resilience by Veronica Gorrie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non Fiction
The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force. A proud Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply com ...Show more
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity. The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who ...Show more
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. ...Show more
The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham, Vivian Pham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
Growing up can feel like a death sentence Life in a troubled neighbourhood demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn’t really know. Watching the world from her bedroom window, she exists only in second-hand romance novels and falls for any fast-food employee who happens to spare her a glance. Everyth ...Show more
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
$29.95 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 2019! A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she l ...Show more
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two. Jena Lin plays the violin. She was once a child prodigy and now uses sex to fill the void left by fame. She's struggling a little. Her professional life comprises rehearsals, concerts, auditions and r ...Show more
A Burning by Megha MAJUMDAR
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent bec ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: good
A stunning debut novel from the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. 'Hannan's Kokomo is a sharply observed novel of one woman's facade and how it falls; an undoing that is both ordinary and compelling. This debut heralds an exciting new Australian voice with a ...Show more
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