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.
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 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
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Vicarious
THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE This is a book about abandoned places: ghost to ...Show more
The Book of Wondrous Possibilities by Deborah Abela
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
A middle grade adventure for 8-12-year-old heroes (even if they don't know it yet).Arlo Goodman lives with his Uncle Avery in a run-down flat above their bookshop. He has no friends, except for his pet mouse, Herbert.But when a girl called Lisette bursts into the shop and begs him to hide her from a mur ...Show more
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius —his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only ...Show more
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