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If you enjoy literary fiction with a gothic and/or humorous sensibility - and a bit of a feminist consciouness - take heed of Mel M's suggestions!
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 'A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.' Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond A woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision may penetrate the mystery at the cent ...Show more
We Spread by Iain Reid
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a ...Show more
Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Following Grudova's critically acclaimed collection The Doll's Alphabet, this surreal, discomforting debut novel charts the fates of a ragtag group of cinema workers who are spat out by corporate takeover. When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into th ...Show more
Delphi by Clare Pollard
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An electrifying, darkly funny and heartbreaking novel about the way we live now; the way we lived before and the stories, connections and consolations that help us keep on living in a world where everyone is watching and yet none of us feels seen. This is a story about now. It's a story about a woman, a ...Show more
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION "Claire Oshetsky's novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying." --Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis Tiny is pregnant. Her hus ...Show more
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic. Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murder ...Show more
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The TimesWhile on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her ...Show more
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
18 boyfriends. 23 jobs. One ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice. Welcome to the world of the Temporary. 'There is nothing more personal than doing your job'. So goes the motto of the Temporary, as she takes job after job, in search of steadiness, belonging, and something to call her own. Aided ...Show more
The Twisted Tree (#1) by Rachel Burge
16.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers | Series: The Twisted Tree
Part ghost story, part Nordic thriller - this is a twisty, tense and spooky YA debut, perfect for fans of CORALINE and Michelle Paver. Martha can tell things about a person just by touching their clothes, as if their emotions and memories have been absorbed into the material. It started the day she fel ...Show more
Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People by Julia Boyd
22.99 AUD
Category: History
Secondhand. "Compelling" - Daily Telegraph "Fascinating" - The Spectator The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt - of hope. How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of Natio ...Show more