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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Barbara Kingsolver
Inspired by the unflinching truth-telling of David Copperfield, Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story.
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Ruth Ozeki
If you let it-if you listen-a book could change your life.
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Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
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Maggie O'Farrell
Two extraordinary people. A love that draws them together. A loss that threatens to tear them apart.
Tayari Jones
A masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward - with hope and pain - into the future.
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Kamila Shamsie
A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles’ Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master…
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Naomi Alderman
The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality while exposing our own world.
Lisa McInerney
A big, bold debut from a true new Irish talent.
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Ali Smith
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique…
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Eimear McBride
Tells in brutal detail the story of a young woman’s relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. In this title, the author touches…
A.M. Homes
May We Be Forgiven is an unnerving, funny tale of unexpected intimacies and of how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together.
Madeline Miller
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list
Tea Obreht
The award-winning, awe-inspiring debut novel by Tea Obreht.
Dive into the most moving and beautiful novel of the year, from the bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible.
Marilynne Robinson
Following on from the magnificent Gilead, HOmetakes up the story of the wayward son Jack who, after decades away, edgily and uneasily, but finally, returns home. He is the prodigal…
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Rose Tremain
London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging… ‘A novel of urgent humanity’ Sunday…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece
Zadie Smith
Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Smith’s third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and the political, and an…
Lionel Shriver
When he was 15, Kevin murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher. Here, our narrator, Kevin’s mother, Eva, tells the story of his upbringing…
Andrea Levy
The multi-award-winning, million copy bestseller… ‘the literary equivalent of a switch-back ride’ - Sunday Times
Ann Patchett
The poignant - and at times very funny - new novel from the author of “The Magician’s Assistant’, shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
Kate Grenville
Harley Savage is a large, rawboned, plain person with a ragged haircut and a white t-shirt coming unstitched along the shoulder. Douglas Cheeseman is a big-eared man who avoids his…
Linda Grant
Stylish reissue of the Orange Prize Winning Novel.
Carol Shields
Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction. In the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court’s maze, Larry Weller discovers the passion of his life. Larry’s Party presents an ironic odyssey through…
Anne Michaels
The prize-winning, bestselling debut novel from Anne Michaels, reissued with a striking new cover
Helen Dunmore
Catherine and her brother, Rob, don’t know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - ‘the man from nowhere’ -…
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