BOOKS WE LOVE
This is a selection of books one, many or all of us at VIVA have read and absolutely love. We change this list often as we will read a new book and simply have to have it on our list.
Lessons in Chemistry (TVTI) by Bonnie Garmus
22.99 AUD
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Apple TV + tie-in of the multi-million-copy No. 1 Sunday Times, No. 1 New York Times and No. 1 international bestseller and prizewinner THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES, #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The multi-million copy bestseller As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime Winner of the Goodreads Cho ...Show more
Scrubbed: A heart surgeon's extraordinary memoir of life, death and everything in between by Nikki Stamp
34.99 AUD
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki Stamp.
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness by John Sellars
14.99 AUD
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Epicureanism offers the perfect cure for our anxious age. What can it teach us about the art of happiness?What do we really need in order to live a happy life? Over two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer- pleasure. All we really want is pleasure.Today we ...Show more
Banjawarn by Josh Kemp
32.99 AUD
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Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Heading north through Kalgoorlie, he attempts to score off old friends from his shearing days on Banjawarn Station. His ...Show more
Trust by Hernán Diaz / Hernan Diaz
32.99 AUD
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
Even through the roar of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. But the secrets around their aff ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
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MACEDONIA, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at the centre ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending h ...Show more
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
29.99 AUD
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the c ...Show more
Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
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A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret ...Show more
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine's assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
Demon Copperhead: a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Demon befriends us on this, his journey through the modern perils of foster care, child labor, d ...Show more