Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
Category: Fiction
'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles together. We took up Christianity together. We entered into new citizenships together. We became wage workers together. We lived with generations upon generations stacked in fibro houses ...Show more
The Radio Hour by Victoria Purman
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who wrote the radio plays that held a nation captive. For readers of Lessons in Chemistry. Martha Berry is f ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Category: Fiction
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
Table For Two by Amor Towles
Category: Fiction
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encou ...Show more
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
Category: Fiction
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopa ...Show more
Milking Time (PB) by Rachael Treasure
Category: Fiction
Connie Mulligan, daughter of a fourth-generation Tasmanian dairy farmer, feels like she doesn't belong. She's out of sorts, and out of step - with her family, her community and her time, and it feels like nothing she does is right. But the story of how Connie Mulligan takes back control of her story and ...Show more
Small Hours by Bobby Palmer
Category: Fiction
The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg. If you stood before sunrise in this wild old place, looking through the trees into the garden...You'd see a father and son, a fox standing between them. You wouldn't know that Jack has returned ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
Category: Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
Category: Fiction
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...Show more
The Cryptic Clue: A Tea Ladies Mystery by Amanda Hampson
Category: Fiction
Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, have their work cut out. Solving a murder, kidnapping and arson case, and outwitting an arch criminal, earned them the respect of a local police officer. Now he needs their a ...Show more
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
Category: Fiction
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column ...Show more