The Island of Mists and Miracles by Victoria Mas
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of the international bestseller, The Mad Women's Ball, a hugely atmospheric novel for fans of Elizabeth Strout and Annie E Proulx. Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see. In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Laboure was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 ...Show more
My Friends by Hisham Matar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Return comes an astonishing new novel about friendship, set between London and Libya in the 1980s and the present Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh- two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of re ...Show more
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lost…and then what happens? The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgo ...Show more
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
COLLINS BOOKSELLERS - FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles together. We took up Christianity together. We entered into new citizenships together. We became wage workers together. We lived with gen ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* Winner of New Zealand's Fiction Book of the Year 2023 A dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humour. Everywhere, the birds, but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree, and we're staying, and you need to leave and ...Show more
Thanks for Having Me by Emma Darragh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first fiction title from JOAN, consisting of interwoven stories about three generations of women in one family as they navigate girlhood, motherhood and selfhood, perfect for fans of Jennifer Egan, Meg Mason and Paige Clark. 'Emma has captured something rare and true with this book. A truly origi ...Show more
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making. I ...Show more
Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubled past in this taut and compelling novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of An Island. In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the police. The remains of ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been run ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
The Morningside by Tea Obreht
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
There's the world you can see. And then there's the one you can't. Welcome to The Morningside. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place she was born and spent her early years; nor doe ...Show more
The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Darkly funny family drama about transphobia, political identity and family dynamics. Perfect for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh and The Dinner by Herman Koch. Linda Taylor is livestreaming her glamourous life as an alternative health guru when she trips over in front of her f ...Show more