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If it's written by a woman, narrated by a woman, and explores themes intrinsic to womanhood with a healthy measure of humour and heart, then you can pretty much guarantee I'll be into it. These stories are audacious, exciting, emotional, and often hilarious, and they span genres and age groups—sass for all!
Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mary Miller combines hard-edged prose and savage Southern charm. Claustrophobic and lonesome, acerbic and magnetic, the women in Always Happy Hour seek understanding in the most unlikely places--a dilapidated foster home where love is a liability and the empty corners of a dream home bought after a bitt ...Show more
American Housewife by Helen Ellis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Meet the women of American Housewife... They smoke their eyes and paint their lips. They channel Beyoncé while doing household chores. They drown their sorrows with Chanel No. 5 and host book clubs where chardonnay trumps Charles Dickens. They redecorate. And they are quietly capable of kidnapping, bre ...Show more
Animals (FTI) by Emma Jane Unsworth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'There's no ceremony for friendship, is there?''Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.'Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change when Laura gets engaged to the man of Tyler's nightmares. Can their friendship survive? Or will growing up mean growin ...Show more
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Lucy Barton #2
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout. Winner of The Story Prize - A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book - One of USA Today's top 10 ...Show more
Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Even serial killers want a happily-ever-after . . . The darkly funny, ingenious and outrageous thriller debut from Julie Mae Cohen.
Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty, and brutal humour. Jenny discusses the frustration of dealing with her insurance company in 'An Open Letter to M ...Show more
Dear Girls - Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mum comics on stage but ...Show more
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Vogue.com, Electric Literature, Buzzfeed In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and ...Show more
Fed Up - Navigating and Redefining Emotional Labour for Good by Gemma Hartley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
Gemma Hartley wrote an article in Harper's Bazaar in September 2017 called 'Women Aren't Nags - We're Just Fed Up', which instantly went viral. The piece, and this book, are about 'emotional labour', i.e. the unpaid, often unnoticed effort and work that goes into keeping everyone around you comfortable ...Show more
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened...In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. In her new book, ...Show more
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Indie Next PickOne of Entertainment Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of 2017Featured on Summer Read Lists by PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Coastal Living, Elle, Goop and BustleFreshly disengaged, with her life at a crossroads., thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job and goes home to her parents. But their situation is ...Show more
Happy Hour by Jacquie Byron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Strout meets Marian Keyes in this wonderful, joyful, funny debut novel from Australian author Jacquie Byron. Gin in one hand, paintbrush in the other, Franny Calderwood has turned her back on the world, or at least the world she used to love. Having lost her husband, Frank, in tragic circumsta ...Show more