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.
Guardians (#1 Wylah the Koorie Warrior) by Jordan Gould, Richard Pritchard
15.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Wylah the Koorie Warrior
Meet Wylah: warrior, hero and friend. Her adventures have been 40,000 years in the making! Wylah is brave, clever and strong-willed, and all her best friends are giant megafauna animals. But she isn't a warrior. Not yet, anyway. Then comes the day when her family is stolen by the dragon army, ...Show more
The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm (#1 Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters) by Karen Foxlee
15.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters
There are those who hunt monsters to harm them and there are those who hunt monsters to help them. Which one are you? Dressed in sparkly red shoes and carrying her strawberry-scented notebook, Mary-Kate is accompanying her archaeologist mother to the tranquil English countryside to investigate some inte ...Show more
We Run Tomorrow by Nat Amoore
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
You can run from your past, but the future is tomorrow... Tonight, we're gonna kidnap our best friend. And tomorrow? We run. Sticks, Maki, Jed and Tommy live on the same street. But the adults around them are making decisions that could tear the four friends apart. When they discover their favourite com ...Show more
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it — and explains why they have died today.Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What Yo ...Show more
The Most Important Job In The World by Gina Rushton
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Should we become parents? It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most in ourselves, in our relationships, and in the world as it is now and as it will be. When Gina Rushton admitted she had little time left to make the decision for herself, the magnitude of the choice overwh ...Show more
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit. Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was ...Show more
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Surreal and unsettling' OBSERVER CULTURAL HIGHLIGHT'Wise, comical and exceptionally relatable' ZEBA TALKHANI 'Quietly hilarious and deeply attuned to the uncanny rhythms and deadpan absurdity of the daily grind' SHARLENE TEO A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no re ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The bestselling and award-winning novel from the author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vi ...Show more
A Cook's Book - The Essential Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater
55.00 AUD
Category: Cooking
A Cook's Book is the story of Nigel Slater's life in the kitchen . . . . . . from the first jam tart Nigel made with his mum standing on a chair trying to reach the AGA, through to what he is cooking now. He writes about how his cooking has changed from discovering the trick to whipping cream perfectly, ...Show more
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The entrancing story of a reclusive Hollywood starlet as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine - from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about ...Show more
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
'Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.' Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing J ...Show more
This is How You Lose the Time War: The epic time-travelling love story and Twitter sensation by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Co-written by two award-winning writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent ...Show more