The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hire ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the world accessed through a screen. It's about where we go when existential threats loom and high-stakes reality claims us back. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof tha ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dia ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: good
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is wasting away, ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped, overpopulated metropolis they call home. Bea knows she cannot stay in the city, but there is only one alternative- The Wilderness State. This vast expanse of unwelcoming, untamed land is untouch ...Show more
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