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Cultural Heritage

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  • The Promise

    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021

    by Damon Galgut ...
    **WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021****'**A tour de force... A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh' Booker Judges 2021Discover the powerful prizewinning story of a family in crisis.The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Cloud Cuckoo Land

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    ‘Serious novels are rarely this fun’ The Times‘A gift’ Guardian‘Buoyant with humanity’ Daily Mail‘Worth the seven year wait’ StylistWhen everything is lost, it’s our stories that surviveHow do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future ... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • All My Mothers

    by Joanna Glen ...
    ‘One of those rarest of books: so beautiful I almost couldn’t bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears’ STACEY HALLS‘Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven’ MIRANDA HART‘A truly glorious life-affirming book, in which love, hope and friendship trump sorrow’ DINAH JEFFERIES‘Worth every tear’ WOMAN & HOME‘Both exquisitely tender and powerfully compell... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Reading List

    by Sara Nisha Adams ...
    A new chapter is just beginning…‘The story is an absolute joy . . . A captivating and exquisitely crafted debut’ Sunday Times bestseller, Heidi Swain‘Absolutely captures the magic of reading and libraries’ Louise HareWhen Aleisha discovers a crumpled reading list tucked into a tattered library book, it sparks an extraordinary journey.From timeless stories of love and friendship to an epic journey ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD $3.99 AUD

  • The Henna Artist

    A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK

    by Alka Joshi ...
    series The Jaipur Trilogy #1
    A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK'This vivid story is so rich and complex...reading about Lakshmi's journey from escaping an abusive marriage to becoming one of the most sought-after henna artists in Jaipur captivated me from the first chapter to the final page.' Reese WitherspoonEscaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Miss Benson's Beetle

    An uplifting story of female friendship against the odds

    by Rachel Joyce ...
    WINNER OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE | BEST PUBLISHED NOVELWOMAN & HOME BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The perfect escape novel for our troubled times.' PATRICK GALE**It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • Snowblind

    by Ragnar Jónasson ...
    Translated by Quentin Bates ...
    series Dark Iceland #1
    **FIRST IN THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIESOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDA murder takes place in the isolated Icelandic town of Siglufjörður, where an avalanche has cut off all communication and the unrelenting snow threatens rookie police officer Ari Thór Arason first investigation…‘A modern Icelandic take on an Agatha Christie-style mystery, as twisty as any slalom…’** Ian Rankin ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD

  • Too Much Lip

    by Melissa Lucashenko ...
    A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby.Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger.Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things – her ... Read more

    $15.72 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • His Highland Queen

    by Dahlia Rose ...
    A palace couldn’t hold her or her fierce personality. Even the most favored of Queen Adelaide could cross a line. When she did so, Bridget Yearwood was sent back to the island from where she was taken long ago. With the sands beneath her feet, she built her fortune answering to no one and became a queen in her own right. The men of industry wanted to control or destroy her and Bridget thought she ... Read more

    $4.48 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shadows of Men

    ‘An unmissable series' The Times

    by Abir Mukherjee ...
    series Wyndham and Banerjee series #5
    *Sunday TimesCrime Book of the Month*'Abir Mukherjee is doing something uniquely different in the crime genre...breathtaking' Peter May, Sunday Times bestseller, on The Shadows of MenCalcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Su... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD $9.99 AUD

  • Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

    River of Dreams

    by Anita Heiss ...
    ‘There are books you encounter as an adult that you wish you could press into the hands of your younger self. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray is one of those books – a novel that turns Australia’s long-mythologised settler history into a raw and resilient heartsong.' – Guardian_______________________________________________Gundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Assistant

    by Kjell Ola Dahl ...
    Translated by Don Bartlett ...
    A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riveting, cunningly plotted historical thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway.‘An expertly crafted unravelling of mixed loyalties, love, lust, lies and trust, set against the background of a world increasingly on the edge of all-out war’ John ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD

  • A Town Like Alice

    (Vintage Classics Shute Series)

    by Nevil Shute Norway ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERIC LOMAXJean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous spirit and ability to speak Malay, Jean takes on the role of ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Ridley Road

    Now a Major BBC Drama

    by Jo Bloom ...
    'Vivid, cinematic and exciting' Red'Conjures a great picture of Soho's early-Sixties jazz-and-caffeine buzz' Emerald Street'Thought-provoking' Independent on SundayA TALE OF LOVE AND MORALITY SET IN THE DARK SIDE OF THE SWINGING SIXTIESSUMMER, 1962.Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives ... ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Raven 3: Odin's Wolves

    (Raven: 3): A thrilling, blood-stirring and blood-soaked Viking adventure from bestselling author Giles Kristian

    by Giles Kristian ...
    series Raven #3
    We lusted for an even greater prize: one that can never be lost or stolen or burnt...Raven and his fellow Vikings have suffered. Good men have died. Hard-won treasure has been lost. But for these Norsemen, there is something more precious than gold or silver, and that is fame - for this is what a warrior leaves behind when he has breathed his last.And so the brotherhood sail for Constantinople, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD $12.99 AUD

  • Tears of the Buffalo

    by Paul Bedford ...
    series Black Horse Western
    The days of slaughtering buffalo were supposedly over, mainly because there were so pitifully few of them remaining. But with top dollar on offer for their severed heads as trophies, some hunters just can't resist. In Yellowstone Park, where such poaching is illegal, Captain Moses Harris and his company of US Cavalry are assigned the job of stopping them. Yet in the depths of winter, following an ... Read more

    $3.84 AUD

  • The Inseparables

    The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir

    by Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir ...
    Translated by Lauren Elkin ...
    'Life without her would be death'The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex published in English for the first time.The compulsive story of two friends growing up and falling apart.INTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVYWhen Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. Under her red coat, she hides terrible burn scars. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Fugitive Colors

    A Novel

    by Lisa Barr ...
    Debut Historical Suspense Novel Wins IPPY Award for Best Literary Fiction 2014”Stolen art, love, lust, deception, and revenge paint the pages of veteran journalist Lisa Barr’s debut novel, Fugitive Colors, an un-put-down-able page-turner. Booklist calls the WWII era novel, "Masterfully conceived and crafted, Barr’s dazzling debut novel has it all: passion and jealousy, intrigue and danger." ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD $1.99 AUD

  • Three Souls

    A Novel

    by Janie Chang ...
    An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying loveWe have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this....So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin, who watches her own funeral from above and wonders why she is being denied entry to the afterlife. Beside her are ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • The Night Watchman

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction 2021

    by Louise Erdrich ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION 2021NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Fortune Men

    Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Of The Year Award

    by Nadifa Mohamed ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021'Chilling and utterly compelling, The Fortune Men shines an essential light on a much-neglected period of our national life' Sathnam Sanghera, author of EmpirelandMahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, ... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • Raven: Blood Eye (Raven 1)

    (Raven: Book 1): A gripping, bloody and unputdownable Viking adventure from bestselling author Giles Kristian

    by Giles Kristian ...
    series Raven #1
    The first book in a thrilling Viking trilogy that launched the career of acclaimed historical novelist Giles Kristian - who's now confronting the tumult and devastation of the English Civil War in The Bleeding Land...For two years Osric has lived a simple life, though he is feared and shunned for his mysterious past and blood-red eye. When raiders from across the sea ransack his village, Osric ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Daisy Jones and The Six

    The must-read bestselling novel

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun' DOLLY ALDERTONTaylor Jenkins Reid's new novel MALIBU RISING is out now!____________________________________Everybody knows Daisy Jones and the Six.From the moment Daisy walked barefoot on to the stage at the Whisky, she... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Raven 2: Sons of Thunder

    (Raven: Book 2): A riveting, rip-roaring Viking saga from bestselling author Giles Kristian

    by Giles Kristian ...
    series Raven #2
    If you betray a Fellowship you are a dead man...Raven and the Wolfpack plough the sea-road in pursuit of the Saxon traitor, Ealdred, who has left the Fellowship for dead and fled to the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne and the promise of untold riches. Sailing in search of revenge, the pagan Norsemen venture into the heart of a Christian empire that would wipe their kind from the face of the earth, a ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD $12.99 AUD