West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
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Category: Fiction
'I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.' Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia-finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to 'exotic' beauty, Luna reinvent ...Show more
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
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Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
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Category: Fiction
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel about motherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking. A resonant and provocative novel about motherhood from the prize-winning author of The Devil I Know and Tenderwire 'Compelling . . This is a scorching read. I could not put it down.' ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
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Category: Fiction
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
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Category: Fiction
A Best Book of 2023 in The Times, Sunday Times, i-D, the Guardian When we look beyond the headlines, everyone has a story to tell It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the ""peasants"" - ordinary people, his reade ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending hi ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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 runn ...Show more
Feast by Emily O'Grady
31.50 AUD
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Category: Fiction
A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yellow House. Three women. Three secrets. One weekend. Alison is an actress who no longer acts, Patrick a musician past his prime. The eccentric couple live an isolated, debauched existence in an old manor ho ...Show more
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
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Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The third novel from the Booker-shortlisted author exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang. It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an ...Show more
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
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Category: Fiction
Slave. Escape-Artist. Murderer. Terrorist. Spy. Lover. Mother. Trickster. Ms Mook made you want to listen to her, but I wasn't sure what to believe. She said she would turn 'one hundred the day after tomorrow', yet she looked at most eighty-seven. She said she'd been a slave, a spy, a murderer and mor ...Show more