Bookclub Picks
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We've selected some of our favourite books and recommended new releases that are sure to inspire conversation!
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. There is nothing special abo ...Show more
Girl in a Pink Dress by Kylie Needham
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Can one relationship survive two ambitious artists? Frances is an artist in her forties living a quiet life in a remote mountain town in NSW, far away from the glittering lights and famous personalities of the Sydney art world she once knew. When an invitation arrives from a former lover to attend his ...Show more
The Night Travelers by Armando Lucas Correa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler’s deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Anam by André Dao
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the g ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
There were things that I wanted to say. Things I knew I couldn't say but needed to tell someone. And then the things I knew I should say. What they wanted to hear. There is never only one version. Novelist JB Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. He ...Show more
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are. At the centre of the group are three dancers - Ivan, tall and stoic, ...Show more
Go as a River by Shelley Read
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For fans of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, GREAT CIRCLE and THE PAPER PALACE- lush, immersive, soaring tale of a young woman's journey to becoming, of love and loss, home and resilience, and finding those where least expected, and a breathtaking exploration of our connection to nature. On a cool autumn mornin ...Show more
Little Plum by Laura McPhee-Browne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On the cusp of thirty, Coral learns that a thing is growing inside her body. It is not necessarily a complete disaster, she tells herself. I’m okay, she tells herself. Soon the thing inside her is the size of a plum. ‘Little Plum,’ she says, ‘Little Plum, I love you.’ And she wants to love it, the l ...Show more
