Staff Favourites
Below is an ever-evolving list of our staff favourites for your perusal and inspiration! Each staff member has a brief profile to the left to help guide you in your selections. Click through to each title for our reviews and further information.
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An electric, compelling, often painfully funny portrait of family relationships, which shows the damage we can do in the course of a life. From the Women's Prize-Shortlisted author of First Love Helen Grant has always been a mystery to her daughter. Twice-divorced, with few friends, her desire to join i ...Show more
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
34.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
High fantasy, low stakes – with a double-shot of coffee. After decades of raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian is finally hanging up her sword for good. Now, she sets her sights on a new dream – one that involves pulling more shots than punches. Armed with hope and a hard-earned secret, she plans to ope ...Show more
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
19.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
'Utterly unique, thought-provoking, and wonderfully written...a thrilling ride that hooked me from start to finish.' - Gloria Chao, author of American Panda and Rent a Boyfriend In this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and sell ...Show more
The Girl Who Talked to Trees by Natasha Farrant
19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Magical interlinked stories about what one girl learns from talking to trees throughout Time and from around the world in a sumptuous gift book presentation. From the team who brought you Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror, Costa Book Award winning Natasha Farrant and Lydia Corry. Olive's best friend ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat: Trilby Moffat: Book 1 by Kate Temple
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Trilby Moffat
This is the dangerous story of Trilby Moffat, who took on one of the most treacherous jobs of all time. Well . . . outside of time, to be precise. For fans of Nevermoor and Lemony Snicket. Before you open it, you should know: this is NOT just any old book. THIS is a legal document. It contains a truthfu ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
The Jammer: CBCA Notable Book 2023 by Nova Weetman
16.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
Fred has moved around her whole life, one small town after another, and never minded starting over. She's always had her mum, her dad, and her love of roller derby. On the track she's Fred or Dead, the star jammer, a gun at smashing through a line of bodies and scoring for her team. But Fred's life has ...Show more
Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds by Rachel Aviv
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
We place a great deal of trust in the medical system. But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it? Is there another way of talking about their experience? And are patients being truly heard? In an attempt to answer t ...Show more
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deepl ...Show more
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities by Deborah Abela
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
A middle grade adventure for 8-12-year-old heroes (even if they don't know it yet).Arlo Goodman lives with his Uncle Avery in a run-down flat above their bookshop. He has no friends, except for his pet mouse, Herbert.But when a girl called Lisette bursts into the shop and begs him to hide her from a mur ...Show more
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius —his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only ...Show more