WellRead

The Hype Bundle

$95.00

Our book bundles are here to make gifting to your loved ones easier! Whether you’re Christmas shopping, looking for the perfect birthday gift for that book-loving friend of yours or just want to show someone you love them, our book bundles are here to save the day. We’ve handpicked two titles that have some things in common so that you can find the right books to give the reader in your life. 

Bundles will ship immediately (same or next business day) and are wrapped in our signature brown paper bags. So, if you want to buy yourself a bookish treat, who are we to stop you?

Want to switch out the tote colour? No problems! Just shoot us an email at hello@wellread.com.au and we’ll sort it out.  

In this bundle: Two of the most talked about literary fiction titles from 2024, plus a signature yellow WellRead tote bag. 

Perfect for gifting to: The reader in your life who loves to visit the bookshelf and wistfully stroke the books, without ever buying them. They’ve probably mentioned these titles to you in recent months. Make their day. 

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

James by Percival Everett 

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, toward the elusive promise of free states and beyond. As James and Huck begin to navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. With rumours of a brewing war, James must face the burden he carries: the family he is desperate to protect and the constant lie he must live. And together, the unlikely pair must face the most dangerous odyssey of them all . . . From the shadows of Huck Finn's mischievous spirit, Jim emerges to reclaim his voice, defying the conventions that have consigned him to the margins.