The Dangers of Female Provocation by Zoe Coyle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Vengeance is coming. Odessa Odin has it all – a successful career, an adoring husband and a close circle of friends to whom she is fiercely loyal. On the surface they’re living a glittering London life of wealth and cosseted privilege, but underneath this veneer lies painful truths of betrayal, neglec ...Show more
The Heart Is A Star by Megan Rogers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling from a talented new writer. A novel for fans of Holly Ringland, Jacqueline Maley, Hannah Richell. Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, ...Show more
Joan by Katherine J. Chen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
A stunning feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc - perfect for fans of Cecily, Ariadne and Matrix 'It is as if the author has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time' Hilary Mantel, twice Booker Prize-winning author of The Mirror & ...Show more
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: good-very good
The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller 'A novel of breathtaking scope' Guardian 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration c ...Show more
Weyward by Emilia Hart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
KATE, 2019 Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt. There, a secret lurks in the bones of the house, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. VIOLET, 1942 Violet is more interested in collecting insects and climbing tree ...Show more
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona - the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way - to take his place in Mona's heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished for. Alone, he and Mona search desperately for the ...Show more
Shogun: NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES by James Clavell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Asian Saga Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES - A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power. Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that ...Show more
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
$34.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, ...Show more
The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2024 Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024 Sydney Morning Herald Best R ...Show more
Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It's a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. We choose to breathe, don't we?Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her p ...Show more
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fasci ...Show more
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more