The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the y ...Show more
The Signature Of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Sir Joseph Banks's Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Captain Cook's HMS R ...Show more
Bridget Jones : Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th? Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant? Is technology ...Show more
Pig's Foot: A Novel by Carlos Acosta
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet of wooden shacks and red earth deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales - some taller than others - of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love and identity, spanning four generations. One day Oscar Mandinga wakes to ...Show more
The Last Shaman by William Whitecloud
$21.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE LAST SHAMAN is a captivating ride through the jungles of war-torn Africa. Mark Vale, who represents any of us struggling to take consistent ownership of our personal power, takes an unwanted journey to find the last shaman who is responsible for ending the war and saving thousands of lives. All thro ...Show more
Tongue in Chic
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Following in the stiletto heels of her bestselling The Vogue Factor, Kirstie Clements' Tongue in Chic is a witty and salacious expos of the world of glossy fashion magazines - a tell-all by the ultimate insider. True events revolve around the fictitious Chic magazine, where an average day involves count ...Show more
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse?s much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate. Bertie Wooster, recently returned from a very pleasurable soujourn in Cannes, finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. Bert ...Show more
Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From Lauren Graham, the star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel and New York Times bestseller about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead, and keep it together, in New York City. It's January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months ...Show more
Season to Taste or How To Eat Your Husband by Natalie Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving...Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita. Likes cooking, avoids the neighbours. Runs a little business making cakes. No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, fo ...Show more
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This is a heart-wrenching thriller that explores the nature of love, and the evil that threatens it. Easter Quillby: Wade disappeared on us when I was six, and I never saw him again until I turned twelve, after Mom was buried. She always said he was a loser, even if he was our dad, but it turns out he w ...Show more
Fallen Land by Patrick Flanery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives and societies taking place all over America. Architect of ...Show more