Bro by Helen Chebatte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What happens when you mix teenage boys, a fight club and ethnic rivalries? You get war. Romeo Makhlouf knows the rules. Stick with your own kind. Don't dob on your mates or even on your enemies. Respect the family. But even unwritten rules are made for breaking.
Begone the Raggedy Witches (#1 Wild Magic Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Wild Magic Trilogy
"Ireland's answer to JK Rowling." Sunday Independent A middle-grade fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Frances Hardinge and Katherine Rundell. When witches kidnap Mup's dad, she must journey to their home to save him, and so begins a fantastical adventure of rhyming crows, talking cats and outlawed m ...Show more
The Binding by Bridget Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice ...Show more
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Lexie Sinclair yearns for more than her parents' genteel country life. She makes her way to the city, where she meets a magazine editor, Innes, a man unlike any she has ever imagined. He introduces her to the thrilling world of bohemian postwar London, and Lexie learns to become a reporter, to know art ...Show more
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the best-selling author of Lost in Translation and A Cup of Light to one of the great Chinese subjects: food. As in her previous novels, Mones’s captivating story also brings into focus a changing China -- this time the hidden world of high cul ...Show more
Ridley Road by Jo Bloom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Summer, 1962. Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. Alone in the world, she is looking for Jack Fox, a man she had a brief but intense love affair with some months before. But the only address she has for him leads to a ...Show more
Twice Magic (The Wizards of Once #2) Trade PB by Cressida Cowell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Wizards of Once | Reading Level: very good
No.1 Bestselling Series from the Blue Peter Award winning author of How To Train Your Dragon. Enter a land of wizards, warriors, mythical creatures and powerful magic in an exciting new fantasy adventure. Witches are creating havoc in the Wildwoods and danger lurks behind every tree trunk. Wish is in po ...Show more
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans a popular bestseller and a critically acclaimed history of China that opened up the country to the world. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family-the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother, and the d ...Show more
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything. A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threa ...Show more
I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good-very good
The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door. After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship with ...Show more
The Book of Pearl by Timothee de Fombelle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Magical Realism | Reading Level: 12+
A compelling story of a first love that defines a lifetime; perfect for fans of David Levithan, told with the intricate and beautiful writing style of bestselling author Timothee de Fombelle. Joshua Pearl is from a world that our own no longer believes in. He knows that his great love is waiting for him ...Show more
Bruny by Heather Rose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcomin ...Show more