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.
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKTOP TEN BOOKS OF 2020, NEW YORK TIMES'A hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy set in the Brooklyn projects of the late 1960s. This alone may qualify it as one of the year's best novels.' The Washington PostFrom the winner of a National Book Award and aut ...Show more
A Single Thread (PB) by Tracy Chevalier
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 'Bittersweet ... dazzling' Guardian 'Deeply pleasurable ... the ending made me cry' The Times 'Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity' Penelope Lively Violet is 39. She lost her fiancé in the Great War. She is consider ...Show more
The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein
17.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
Facing a seemingly endless war, 15-year-old Louisa Adair wants to fight back, make a difference, do something - anything to escape the Blitz and the ghosts of her parents, who were killed by enemy actions. But when she accepts a position caring for an elderly German woman in the small village of Windyed ...Show more
The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta, Melina Marchetta
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'You look the type to break your father's heart.''Yeah, but he broke mine first.' When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years lat ...Show more
The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
Olga loves the stories of the old cartographers and pores over their ancient books and maps, trying to unlock their secrets. Sometimes, she thinks she can even feel through the maps- almost see into them-as if by magic. But magic is banned in Tsaretsvo, ever since the war with the birds that divided the ...Show more
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of PAST THE SHALLOWS and WHEN THE NIGHT COMES. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a ma ...Show more
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in hi ...Show more
Enchantée (#1) (Enchantee) by Gita Trelease
16.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers | Series: Enchantée
Paris is a labryinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Camille Durbonne is one of them. She wishes she weren't... When smallpox kills her parents, Camille must find a way to provide for her younger sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on m ...Show more
The Twisted Tree (#1) by Rachel Burge
16.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers | Series: The Twisted Tree
Part ghost story, part Nordic thriller - this is a twisty, tense and spooky YA debut, perfect for fans of CORALINE and Michelle Paver. Martha can tell things about a person just by touching their clothes, as if their emotions and memories have been absorbed into the material. It started the day she fel ...Show more
Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People by Julia Boyd
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. "Compelling" - Daily Telegraph "Fascinating" - The Spectator The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt - of hope. How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of Natio ...Show more
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
17.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but ...Show more
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN A notice in The Timesaddressed to 'Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small medieval Italian Castle to be let for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer- Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, both fleeing unappreciative husb ...Show more