Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to- ...Show more
An Unsuitable Match by Joanna Trollope
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Nobody writes about family tensions better than Joanna Trollope' Good HousekeepingAn Unsuitable Match, by number one bestselling author Joanna Trollope, is an a uplifting story of love, family and second chances.'Why on earth, after all you've been through, all you've survived, all you've achieved, why ...Show more
Solar by Ian McEwan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive wom ...Show more
Pearl in a Cage: A Woody Creek Novel 1 by Joy Dettman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
<b>The first book in the dark and addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman</b> <b> "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" <i>The Age</i></b> Spanning two momentous decades and capturing rural Australia's complex and mysteriou ...Show more
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
With its breakneck pacing, dazzling plot twists and unforgettable characters, The Last Thing He Told Me is bestselling author Laura Dave's finest novel yet, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn. *SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JENNIFER GARNER, FROM THE MAKERS OF BIG LITTLE LIES ...Show more
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae ...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
The Turning by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.Here are turnings of all kinds changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours where people struggle against the terrible weight of t ...Show more
Anam (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by André Dao
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the g ...Show more
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of "the man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism. The long-awaited new novel from one of America's ...Show more
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent ...Show more
The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro: A Novel by Viola Ardone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the internationally bestselling author of The Children’s Train comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries old tradition to win the right to control her own life.As provincial Sicily bursts into life with t ...Show more