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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Marilyn French
The classic feminist novel, reissued for its 30th anniversary.
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Doris Lessing
Widely regarded as Doris Lessing’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, The Golden Notebook is wry and perceptive, bold and indispensable.
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Maya Angelou
Superbly told, with the poet’s gift for language and observation, Angelou’s autobiography of her childhood in racially charged Arkansas in the 1930s brings to vivid life a world which most…
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George Eliot
George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search…
Audrey Niffenegger
This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was…
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Lionel Shriver
Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian’s son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only 15 at the time…
Toni Morrison
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is…
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Sylvia Plath
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in…
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Dodie Smith
Cassandra’s father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty. Her sister Rose is bored and beautiful, and desperate…
Donna Tartt
The original American campus novel.
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Louisa May Alcott
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Baronet Books, c1989.
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Daphne Du Maurier
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…
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Emily Bronte
Here’s looking at you… Cathy. Childhood sweethearts turned star-crossed lovers, fuelled by bitter jealousy and dark revenge. She’s pretty and posh, he’s a moody brooding bastard. Heartbreak, alcoholism and plenty…
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Charlotte Bronte
As an orphan, Jane’s childhood is not an easy one but her independence and strength of character keep her going. However, her biggest challenge is yet to come. Taking a…
Margaret Atwood
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of…
Harper Lee
‘Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a write with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable’…
