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.
August Blue by Deborah Levy
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home 'If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitte ...Show more
The Anthropocene Reviewed: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by John Green
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Mind-expanding essays on modern life and the human experience in the first non-fiction work by #1 internationally bestselling author John Green - one of the world's most beloved novelists.A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 inter ...Show more
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox
19.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
A powerful, lyrical novel about friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma, love and our hopeless, hopeful world from the award-winning author of How It Feels to Float. George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says ...Show more
The Manifestor Prophecy (#1 Nic Blake and the Remarkables) by Angie Thomas
17.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the launch of a new contemporary fantasy trilogy inspired by African American history and folklore.It’s not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool — like getting a pet hellhound f ...Show more
The Hotel Witch by Jessica Miller
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
A charming and spellbinding tale, The Hotel Witch is beloved children's author Jessica Miller's new novel for a wide range of middle-grade readers Sometimes the simplest spells are the most powerful.Sibyl is the apprentice hotel witch at the splendid Grand Mirror Hotel. She is busy each day, under the ...Show more
The School for Thieves (#1 Crookhaven) by J.J. Arcanjo
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Crookhaven
"So this is really a school for criminals." "We are so much more than that. We are a home for the forgotten, a sanctuary for the lost and ... yes, a training ground for the greatest crooks of the future." An irresistible new series about chosen family, high stakes thievery, and what it really means to d ...Show more
Table for Two: Recipes for the Ones You Love by Bre Graham
42.99 AUD
Category: Cooking
Recipes, menus, and tablescapes to delight your lover, best friend, sister, mother, or brother - this book will become a reference cookbook for a generation that loves to entertain at home Whether it's your Mum, your best friend, or your significant other, sweep the person you love off their feet with ...Show more
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
19.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
A #1 New York Times and National Bestseller! A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray. Romania, 1989. Communist ...Show more
The Book of Stolen Dreams (#1) (PB) by David Farr
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The\Stolen Dreams Adventures Ser.
An exhilarating, awe-inspiring debut from a master storyteller writing for children for the first time, perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Katherine Rundell and Eva Ibbotson. An exhilarating, awe-inspiring debut from a master storyteller writing for children for the first time, perfect for fans of Kath ...Show more
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The final work of one of the greatest non-fiction writers of the last century is a stunningly original memoir and a moving exploration of family history For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographica ...Show more
The Stolen Heir: A Novel of Elfhame, from the author of The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black
22.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers | Series: The Stolen Heir
A reluctant prince. A runaway queen. And a quest that may destroy them both. #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black returns to the opulent world of Elfhame in the first book in a thrilling new duology, following Jude's brother Oak, and the changeling queen, Suren.
Lolly Willowes (Little Clothbound Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and m ...Show more