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.
The House of Serendipity Book 1: Sequins & Secrets by Lucy Ivison
14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Welcome to The House of Serendipity, where friendships are fashioned and destinies designed amongst the ballgowns, tiaras and trifles! Introducing a gorgeously glamorous new series filled with 1920s period detail, perfect for fans of Katherine Woodfine and Robin Stevens. Meet Myrtle Mathers and Sylvia ...Show more
Assembly by Natasha Brown
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer." (Bernardine Evaristo) "Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway meets Claudia Rankine's Citizen...as breathtakingly graceful as it is mercilessly true."--Olivia Su ...Show more
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. That girl didn't want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that dec ...Show more
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The TimesWhile on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her ...Show more
The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award, this tour-de-force explores loneliness and desire, the peril and beauty of solitude - and our need for connection. 'A compelling story about isolation, duty, desire, fear and escape. As each character in The Shut-Ins feels increasingly trapped by ...Show more
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe? England, The Year of Our Lord, 1364 When married off aged 12 to an elderly farmer, Eleanor Cornfed, who's const ...Show more
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, ...Show more
The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world.
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static. Francesca is Caro's stepmother, and Pauly's mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high house was once her holiday home; now looked after by locals Grandy and Sally, she has turned it into an ...Show more
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: The international bestseller by Cho Nam-Joo
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her broth ...Show more
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
19.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark ha ...Show more
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
18 boyfriends. 23 jobs. One ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice. Welcome to the world of the Temporary. 'There is nothing more personal than doing your job'. So goes the motto of the Temporary, as she takes job after job, in search of steadiness, belonging, and something to call her own. Aided ...Show more