The Weekend
Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of their late friend.
Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, fran…
If you like book The Weekend here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
The Season
It’s footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson’s under-16s team. She not only goes to every game (give or take), but to every training session too, shivering on the sidelin…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Burrow
A wise and moving story about a family navigating grief, hope, and healing through a bond with a new pet rabbit.
Buy this book on Amazon
“How rare, this delicacy—this calm, sweet, desolated wisdom.”—Helen Garner
The Burrow fol… -
Held
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault.
Buy this book on Amazon
1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lie… -
The Safekeep
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Our Evenings
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he strug…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world
Buy this book on Amazon
At the en… -
Juice
An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you’ve never read him before.
Buy this book on Amazon
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert… -
-
Orbital
A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space st…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Dusk
In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has been placed on Dusk, t…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Windstärke 17
Ida hat nichts bei sich außer dem alten, verschrammten Hartschalenkoffer ihrer Mutter, ein paar Lieblingsklamotten und ihrem MacBook, als sie ihr Zuhause verlässt. Es ist wahrscheinlich ein Abschied f…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Honeyeater
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year.
Buy this book on Amazon
'Translation is longing. You never get it right.'
Y… -
Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Echoes
A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and London - from the bestselling author of The Bass Rock
Buy this book on Amazon
Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he die… -
Creation Lake
A new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner of glittering insights and dark humor.Creation Lake is a novel about…
Buy this book on Amazon -
22 Bahnen
Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre kleine Schwester Ida kümmern und an schlechten Tagen auch um die Mutter. Zu dritt wohnen sie im traurigste…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure.
Buy this book on Amazon
Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney – populated with residents wi… -
The Valley (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #4)
The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Seven.
Buy this book on Amazon
Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic are back – as Nell is thrown into her most emotionally fraught investigation yet.
A con… -
Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
Buy this book on Amazon
With her remarkable i… -
Edenglassie
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mu…
Buy this book on Amazon