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.
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
The Golden Mole, And other living treasure by Katherine Rundell
34.99 AUD
Category: Animals
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals - a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to ...Show more
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An electric, compelling, often painfully funny portrait of family relationships, which shows the damage we can do in the course of a life. From the Women's Prize-Shortlisted author of First Love Helen Grant has always been a mystery to her daughter. Twice-divorced, with few friends, her desire to join i ...Show more
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
34.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
High fantasy, low stakes – with a double-shot of coffee. After decades of raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian is finally hanging up her sword for good. Now, she sets her sights on a new dream – one that involves pulling more shots than punches. Armed with hope and a hard-earned secret, she plans to ope ...Show more
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
19.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
'Utterly unique, thought-provoking, and wonderfully written...a thrilling ride that hooked me from start to finish.' - Gloria Chao, author of American Panda and Rent a Boyfriend In this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and sell ...Show more
Waiting for the Storks by Katrina Nannestad
22.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am. It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in f ...Show more
The Girl Who Talked to Trees by Natasha Farrant
19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Magical interlinked stories about what one girl learns from talking to trees throughout Time and from around the world in a sumptuous gift book presentation. From the team who brought you Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror, Costa Book Award winning Natasha Farrant and Lydia Corry. Olive's best friend ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat: Trilby Moffat: Book 1 by Kate Temple
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Trilby Moffat
This is the dangerous story of Trilby Moffat, who took on one of the most treacherous jobs of all time. Well . . . outside of time, to be precise. For fans of Nevermoor and Lemony Snicket. Before you open it, you should know: this is NOT just any old book. THIS is a legal document. It contains a truthfu ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
The Jammer: CBCA Notable Book 2023 by Nova Weetman
16.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
Fred has moved around her whole life, one small town after another, and never minded starting over. She's always had her mum, her dad, and her love of roller derby. On the track she's Fred or Dead, the star jammer, a gun at smashing through a line of bodies and scoring for her team. But Fred's life has ...Show more
Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds by Rachel Aviv
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
We place a great deal of trust in the medical system. But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it? Is there another way of talking about their experience? And are patients being truly heard? In an attempt to answer t ...Show more