The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Coney Island, 1911: Coralie Sardie is the daughter of a self-proclaimed scientist and professor who acts as the impresario of The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a boardwalk freak show offering amazement and entertainment to the masses. An extraordinary swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid alongside ...Show more
White Princess: Cousins' War 5 by Philippa Gregory
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Cousins' War Ser.
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe newest novel from "the queen of royal fiction" (USA Today) tells the story of Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, who is caught in the middle of a battle for the crown of England.The White Princess opens as the news of the Battle of Bosworth is brought ...Show more
Slade House by David Mitchell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night. Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking ...Show more
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
SUM shows us forty wonderfully imagined possibilities of life beyond death. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us to figure out what they could not. In a different ver ...Show more
Heritage by Judy Nunn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
They came to change the course of a river. And changed the course of their lives . . .In a time when desperate people were seizing with both hands the chance for freedom, refugees from more than seventy nations gathered beneath the Southern Cross to forge a new national identity. They came from all over ...Show more
Behind Iraqi Lines by Shaun Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: SAS Operation
Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS survive the inferno of Operation Desert Storm? August 1990, and Iraqi tanks are rolling into Kuwait, putting one quarter of the world's oil reserves at risk. So begins Operation Desert Storm. As specialists in desert warfare, the legendary SAS are plu ...Show more
The First Phone Call From Heaven by Mitch Albom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"What if the end is not the end?" From the beloved author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most thrilling and magical novel yet—a page-turning mystery and a meditation on the power of human connection. One morning in the small t ...Show more
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour's son. Dusty Ravich, the deceased boy, was best friends with Landreaux's five-year ...Show more
The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
How can hope exist when the past is so easily forgotten?Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev's repressive rule over the Soviet Union. As a small child, Pasha sat at the kitchen table night after night as his parents and their friends gathered to preserve the memory of te ...Show more
Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The 2005 novel The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes, the bestselling author of Me Before You and two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. Australia, 1946. 650 brides are departing for England to meet the men they married in wartime. But instead of the luxury liner they were expecting, they find t ...Show more
The Ties That Bind by Lexi Landsman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Ties That Bind is an emotionally riveting debut novel about the power of a mother's love and the bonds among family that, though severed, can never be fully broken. On opposite sides of the world, two lives are changed forever. One by the smallest bruise. The other by a devastating bushfire. And bot ...Show more
The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Roisin and Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes. While Roisin grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze with a passion for science and the skies and for all there is to discover about the world, Francois was raised by his beautiful young mother, who dre ...Show more