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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!
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A wildly original novel that pulses with heart and truth . . . That this powerful exploration of friendship, desire, ambition, and secrets manages to be ebullient, gripping, heartbreaking, and deeply deeply funny is a testament to Kayla Rae Whitaker's formidable gifts. I was so sorry to reach the final ...Show more
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
$19.99 AUD
Category: YA Fiction
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club.Her father's "bunny rabbit." A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school. Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15: A knockout figure. A sharp tongue.A chip on her shoulder.And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed M ...Show more
The Gaps by Leanne Hall
$19.99 AUD
Category: YA Fiction
What does it mean to be the one left behind? When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller. Police suspect the abd ...Show more
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
An edge-of-your-seat debut thriller with identical twins, a crazy inheritance and a boat full of secrets. Who can you trust? Absolutely nobody! Identical twins only look the same… Beautiful twin sisters Iris and Summer are startlingly alike, but beyond what the eye can see lies a darkness that sets them ...Show more
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Buckling under the weight of being a single parent--her Tu ...Show more
The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'The Hungover Games deftly explores expectations of modern womanhood through a beautiful, wild, painfully honest, hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking story. Full of adventure and awe, Sophie Heawood has written a soulful, truthful homage to a life lived with appetite, intensity and wonder.' Dolly Alde ...Show more
The Lightness by Emily Temple
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'With dark, stylish prose and a group of teenage girls up to no good, The Lightness could be the love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French, but its savage, glittering magic is all Emily Temple's own' Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, he ...Show more
The Nancys by R W R McDonald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Tippy Chan is eleven and lives in a small town in a very quiet part of the world - the place her Uncle Pike escaped from the first chance he got as a teenager. Now Pike is back with his new boyfriend Devon to look after Tippy while her mum's on a cruise. Tippy is in love with her uncle's old Nancy Drew ...Show more
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
$21.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
"Lutz develops riveting suspense by slowly revealing the events that first sent Tanya/Amelia on the run, while pouring threats on her gritty heroine's increasingly tenuous bids at survival. Binge-worthy fare, especially for those drawn to strong female protagonists" (Booklist, starred review). From the ...Show more
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - A Novel by Grady Hendrix
$25.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this horror novel set in 1990s suburban Charleston Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to kiss her good-bye in the morning, her kids are wrapped up in their own lives, and she's always a step behi ...Show more
The Witches Are Coming: Essays by Lindy West
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
From the very moment powerful men on top started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations have been raging from every corner: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now criti ...Show more
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more