Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Category: Modern Fiction
'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, ...Show more
Lost & Found by Brooke Davis
Category: Modern Fiction
At seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. She wasn't to know that after she had recorded twenty-seven assorted creatures in her Book of Dead Things her dad would be a Dead Thing, too. Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and has not left her house since her husband died. She s ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
Category: Science
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Category: Modern Fiction
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Category: Science
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more
Fourth Wing: The Empyrean Bk 1 by Rebecca Yarros
Category: Fantasy | Series: The Empyrean Ser.
Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last... Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general-also known as her toug ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Category: Modern Fiction
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Category: Modern Fiction
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
Category: Science
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Category: Modern Fiction
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Category: Science
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
Category: Modern Fiction
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more