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.
Thirst for Salt: A novel by Madelaine Lucas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compelling and unforgettable debut novel by an acclaimed young Australian writer - a mesmerising story of desire and its complexities and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss and longing. 'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' -Leslie Ja ...Show more
Cheri by Jo Ann Beard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This heart wrenching novella honours all the wonders of life through the lens of one woman's journey towards death Cheri has been living with cancer for many years. Now, she is dying. As she navigates the final weeks of her life, and takes charge of the manner of her death, she is flooded with childhood ...Show more
Lucy by the Sea (HB) by Elizabeth Strout
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens: WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD by Shankari Chandran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The moving new novel from the bestselling author of The Night Guest. In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets and enormous dust storms. One of its own has gone missing - six-year-old Denny Wallace - and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they s ...Show more
The Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O'Flynn
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Ava Langdon is often not herself. Having fled her early life in New Zealand and endured the loss of her children, she now lives as a recluse in the Blue Mountains. Regarded by locals as a colourful eccentric, she dresses in men's clothes and fearlessly pursues her artistic path. All that matters to Ava ...Show more
Mistletoe Malice by Kathleen Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs: 'literary comfort and joy' (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss) for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Somewhere between Green Gables and Avonlea there is a Blue Castle.... Lucy Maud Montgomery, internationally best-selling Canadian author, wrote about girls who escaped into the wild when the world stopped making sense. Her girl-protagonists straddle the line between 'civilized' towns of the 1900s, a ...Show more
Matrix by Lauren Groff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSAN OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR'Gorgeous, sensual, addictive' SARA COLLINS'Brightly lit' NAOMI ALDERMANBorn from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court an ...Show more
This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S AWARD FOR FICTION 2023 'This is a great novel of enduring significance and enormous beauty.’ – Sydney Morning Herald Sometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writin ...Show more
To Paradise: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022 'This magisterial follow-up to A Little Life offers three books in one . . . Yanagihara weighs up damage and privilege - social, emotional, political, colonial in a gripping, immersive ride through alternative Americas.' ...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