Staff Picks
Check out what our Booksellers have been enjoying, click on the title to read a staff review!
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Prize WINNER (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Fourth Wing: The Empyrean Bk 1 by Rebecca Yarros
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: The\Empyrean Ser.
An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book "Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy." --Booklist, starred review "Fourth Wing will have your heart poundin ...Show more
The Widow of Walcha: A true story of love, lies and murder in a small country town by Emma Partridge
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Walcha. Shortlisted, 2023 Danger Awards, Nonfiction category All farmer Mathew Dunbar ever wanted was to find love and have a family of his own. That’s why, just months after meeting Natasha Darcy, the much- ...Show more
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
"If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this" (The Sunday Times, London): An award-winning debut novel from a rising star in Australia--a hauntingly beautiful story about the bond of brotherhood and the fragility of youth. Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coas ...Show more
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...Show more
The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook by Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cooking
The Mediterranean Diet is the diet to end them all. Scientifically backed by decades of rigorously peer-reviewed research, the results of the Mediterranean Diet speak for themselves. Dr Catherine Itsiopoulos has devoted her life to studying this World Heritage diet and now brings you more recipes, tips ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing (FTI) by Delia Owens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Staff Picks
OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Painfully beautiful' New York Times 'Unforgettable . . . as engrossing as it is moving' Daily Mail 'A rare achievement' The Times 'I can't even express how much I love this book!' Reese WitherspoonFor ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The sultry, sensual novel of obsession and desire that inspired the Oscar-winning film, now available in a gorgeous collectable hardback edition.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: The Locked Tomb Trilogy
The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlif ...Show more
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Trent Dalton goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest. A wid ...Show more