Staff Favourites > Bronwyn's Picks
Bronwyn enjoys reading widely and often! Her favourite genres are historical fiction, Australian literary, memoir & biography, the classics and award winning books.
Deep Water: The world in the ocean by James Bradley
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Technology
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Her decision changed history. Now her family must survive it. Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the power of familial love in the face of the horrors of war, for fans of Pachinko and All the Light We Cannot See. 'I'll never forget this book' JESSAMINE CH ...Show more
Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animalsis a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers. 'The most original, surprising and inspired book I read this year.' Stephen Romei, Weekend Australian Perhaps only the animals can tell ...Show more
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH `A masterpiece' Zadie Smith `Extraordinary' Daily Mail `Breathtaking' Observer `A tour de force' The Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about ...Show more
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This recently rediscovered novel from the author of The Second Sex is the compulsive story of two close friends growing up and falling apart.The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age, but walks with the co ...Show more
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for- telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts. Inextr ...Show more
Square Haunting - Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE * LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal People An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London's Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in t ...Show more
Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years. Gillian Mears appeared to many to be a shy woman from Grafton, but her lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive pass ...Show more
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An explosive debut novel about dub reggae, love, loss and freedom set in late '70s and early '80s London, Bristol and Jamaica by a phenomenal new voice in fictionThis is our dancing time.Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the indust ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei YU
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a campus novel set off campus, and a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwo ...Show more