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.
Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky by Rebecca Lim
17.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
After their family encounters terrible hardship in rural China, siblings Fu and Pei must draw on all their resilience and courage as they embark on a dangerous journey towards a better life. A compelling and poignant children's novel from the CBCA award-winning author of Tiger Daughter. What if you wer ...Show more
The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between on ...Show more
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lar ...Show more
Lady Tan's Circle Of Women by Lisa See
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 15th century China two women are born under the same sign, the Metal Snake. But life will take the friends on very different paths. According to Confucius, 'an educated woman is a worthless woman', but Tan Yunxian - born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separation and loneliness - is bein ...Show more
Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure - an eerie and erotic historical mystery about desire, memory and madness. In 1951, still reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest war the world had ever seen, the small French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit succumbed to a mass poisoning. The poison induce ...Show more
One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattacharya
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerfully moving debut novel of modern India- of violence and prejudice, friendship, family and loyalty, and of a young man coming of age in a country on fire.It is 1992, and India is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence- an act in which his ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were ...Show more
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
16.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
An epic, emotional, breathtaking story of love and loss set amid the Syrian revolution. Burning with the fires of hope and possibility, AS LONG AS THE LEMON TREES GROW will sweep you up and never let you go. This brand new paperback edition contains exclusive bonus short story Joy. Set in the world of L ...Show more
Ordinary Monsters: (The Talents Series - Book 1) by J M Miro
24.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
* THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *'An enthralling read' GUARDIAN'A thrilling blend of fantasy and horror, richly imagined and masterfully executed' SFX'Terrific . . . A book that creeps up on you, wearing brass knuckles' CONN IGGULDEN--------------The first in a captivating new historical fantasy s ...Show more
Trust by Hernán Diaz / Hernan Diaz
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more
Meet Me at the Moon Tree by Shivaun Plozza
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
A tender Australian story about searching for the impossible in the places where magic and science meet.For Carina Sugden, there is nothing more special than a moon tree - a tree grown from the seeds taken on the 1971 Apollo mission into space. Her father taught her everything she knows about them. But ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more