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.
Fugitive Pieces: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction by Anne Michaels
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astoundi ...Show more
Glass Houses: A Novel by Anne Coombs
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Beloved author Anne Coombs' final novel - a gentle satire with a rapier edge that captures the joys and hypocrisies of a mid-nineties version of the Australian bourgeouise. Raymond causes a stir in country town Glaston when he buys Glastonbridge, a house of vast, neo-Gothic fantasy abandoned for decade ...Show more
We All Lived in Bondi Then by Georgia Blain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple mistake. A daughter searches for certainty as her mother's memory degrades. An encounter at a house party changes ...Show more
Mrs March by Virginia Feito
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
‘Nastily good fun’ Metro SET TO BECOME A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ELIZABETH MOSS Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia George March’s latest novel is a smash hit. None could be ...Show more
The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Amanda Lohrey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating ...Show more
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them.When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them recon ...Show more
Persuasion (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Austen Ser.
Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, who as a teenager, was engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engage ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged si ...Show more
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lar ...Show more
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non Fiction
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost. Desperate to ig ...Show more
The Yield by Tara June Winch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the w ...Show more