Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins thei ...Show more
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Sparkling with wit and vibrancy, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about three women and the strange connection between them. It confirms Helen Oyeyemi's place as one of the most original and dynamic literary voices of her generation.
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
The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Elizabeth Pringle has lived on the beautiful island of Arran for over 90 year; the retired teacher and spinster is a familiar and yet solitary figure tending her garden and riding her bicycle around the island. When she dies she leaves her beloved house 'Holmlea' to a woman she merely saw pushing a pram ...Show more
Losing Kate by Kylie Kaden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
I'm the most authentic version of myself when I'm around Jack. We've known each other since we were kids, and our relationship was always one of mudpies and mocking. Then everything changed. Beautiful Kate, my best friend, disappeared on a moonlit beach after Jack dumped her for me. Jack was a suspect a ...Show more
Nineteen Twenty-One by Adam Thorpe
$12.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage War
It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him ...Show more
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
$12.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage War
The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who, in 1945, guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Al ...Show more
The Lost Child by Suzanne McCourt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the headland, we look across to the lighthouse on Seal Island where Mr Hammett has to take the gas bottle to keep the light flashing at night. Aunt Cele says there is no land between us and the bottom of the world where everything is white ice and there are penguins as big as men, but I know this a ...Show more
The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters by Michelle Lovric
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is the age of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, when Europe burns with a passion for long-flowing locks. And when seven sisters, born into fatherless poverty in Ireland, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognise their potential. It begins w ...Show more
No Book but the World by Leah Hager Cohen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A young boy goes missing. The accused is a loner and outsider. When Ava Manseau learns that the suspect is actually her brother, Fred, she is compelled to piece together what actually happened, convinced that she alone will be able to explain him and his innocence. Fred has always been different: certai ...Show more
Your Fathers, Where are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is Dave Eggers's brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world. In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA ...Show more
The Postcard by Leah Fleming
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to 'Desmond' among her recently deceased father's effects, she is determined to discover this person's identity and his relationship to her father. She soon embarks on a journey that will take her across oceans and into the past⦠1930's, Lon ...Show more