Readings Recommends: Mother's Day Books
Reunion
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
Old friendships are expected to maintain their shape despite distance‚ lovers‚ careers‚ new friends. But twenty years is a long time.
Ava is an internationally acclaimed novelist who carries with her a lifetime of ... Buy or find out more →
In The Kitchen
$32.95$14.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday
The new novel from the author of Brick Lane, In The Kitchen is a stunning novel set in the kitchen of a London hotel. The novel opens with a mysterious death in the cellars of a smart cosmopolitan hotel and over the cour... Buy or find out more →
The Women In Black
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. The women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush a... Buy or find out more →
About Face
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
The wonderful new Commissario Brunetti novel, from Sunday Times Bestselling author Donna Leon.
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Comissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian b... Buy or find out more →
Meet Me At Mike's
$45.00 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
From Melbourne’s best loved crafty store comes Meet Me at Mike’s, a cornucopia of crafty fun and inspiration. Queen of Crafters Pip Lincolne has gathered 25 of the best projects from the country’s most creative cleverbod... Buy or find out more →
Butterfly
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
Here is Plum Coyle, on the threshold of adolescence, striving to be new. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching: her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, at ease. The strength... Buy or find out more →
The Little Stranger
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Virago
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its mas... Buy or find out more →
The Weight Of Silence
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
The Weight Of Silence is the gravity of all the unsaids, the unseens, and how they shape our lives. A father's drinking, a mother's shame, a daughter's longing to hold onto a trouser leg to hear someone speak of what nev... Buy or find out more →
Mother: Portraits By 40 Great Artists
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Frances Lincoln
From Durer to Hockney, Kahlo to Cassatt, forty portraits make up this collection of artists' mothers. A delicious combination of biographical anecdote and art history, it is also an elegant celebration of the powerful re... Buy or find out more →
Gardens Of Eden: Among The Worlds Most Beautiful Gardens
$60.00$0.00 – Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press
Gardens of Eden is not simply a stroll through the world s most beautiful gardens; it is a romp through history and an armchair ride around the world. Buy or find out more →
Snowflakes And Schnapps
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
Join Jane Lawson as she takes you on a culinary journey through the magnificent cold-climate cuisines of the snow-cloaked regions of northern, central and eastern Europe. From the seaside towns of Scandinavia, to the alp... Buy or find out more →
Wetlands
$30.00 – Hardcover book / Fourth Estate
In a sexually and anatomically explicit novel, Roche exposes the double bind of female sexuality, delivering a compulsively readable and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the repercussions of family trau... Buy or find out more →
Velvet Pears: Gardening by the Seasons at Foxglove Spires
$69.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
A lavishly illustrated and deeply personal story of the creation of an idiosyncratic Australian country garden, Velvet Pears is an inspirational book that is also full of practical ideas. Author Susan Southam created the... Buy or find out more →
Foxeys Hangout
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Hardie Grant
We were not obvious candidates for a sea change. When we talked of moving to the country, friends pointed out that Tony and I were hardly back-to-nature types. ‘Do you own a single pair of shoes without heels?’ asked a f... Buy or find out more →
Nocturnes
$29.99$29.95 – Trade paperback / Faber
New from the Booker-Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day, When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go.
'It was our third time playing The Godfather theme since lunch ...' In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro e... Buy or find out more →
Breath
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and ... Buy or find out more →
The Winter Vault
$32.99$14.95 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be rescued from the rising waters of the Aswan dam. Block by block it is to be dismantled and resurrected sixty metres higher. This most delicate and daunting of tasks is ... Buy or find out more →
Waiting Room
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
'It all started with her bare feet. I'd never seen them like that before, from that angle, looking so vulnerable.'
When Gabrielle Carey's mother, who is usually pedantically punctual and organised, begins to ... Buy or find out more →
My Cousin Rosa: Rosi Mitchell's Sicilian Kitchen
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
When a young girl and her family move from Sicily to country Australia, it is a surprisingly small step in kitchen miles. The tablecloth and stockpot are the same, cardoons and fennel still grow wild on the roadside and ... Buy or find out more →
Dog Boy
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
In a deserted Moscow apartment building four-year-old Romochka waits for Uncle to come home. Outside the snow is falling, but after a few days hunger drives Romochka outside, his mother's voice ringing in his ears. Don't... Buy or find out more →