Dear Mr M by Herman Koch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A hair-raising new tour de force from Herman Koch, New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool. Once a celebrated writer, M's greatest success came with a suspense novel based on a real-life, unsolved disappearance. It told the story of a history teacher who went ...Show more
This is How it Always is by Laurie Frankel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Rosie and Penn always wanted a daughter. Four sons later, they decide to try one last time - and their beautiful little boy Claude is born. Life continues happily for this big, loving family until the day when Claude says that, when he grows up, he wants to be a girl. As far as Rosie and Penn are concer ...Show more
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia a ...Show more
Silent Music by Jane Hawking
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Immortal Souls Ser.
Growing up in London in the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth is an observant and thoughtful child who finds herself in a confusing and mysterious adult world. She seeks refuge in her memories of her idyllic stays with her grandparents in the picturesque East Anglian countryside - which provide co ...Show more
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Contemporaries | Reading Level: General Adult
When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is that the ...Show more
A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When Elsie Gormley falls and is forced to leave her Brisbane home of 62 years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, with their new life - new house, new city, new baby. Lucy and her husband Ben struggle to navigate their transformation from adventurous lovers to new parents and both seek to smooth the roug ...Show more
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come...On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian Mc ...Show more
The Melody by Jim Crace
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend a ceremony at the town's avenue of fame, Busi is attac ...Show more
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 HonoreeNBCC John Leonard First Book Prize FinalistAspen Words Literary Prize FinalistCalifornia Book Award First Fiction FinalistLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Buzzfeed, S ...Show more
Varina by Charles Frazier
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the number one bestselling author of Cold Mountain - a stunning portrait of the devastation left by the American Civil War, as seen through the eyes of a woman who played a part at the heart of it. Sooner or later, history asks: which side were you on? 'Riveting...this is a sharp, evo ...Show more
The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti; Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
For fans of Elena Ferrante and Paulo Coelho comes the international sensation about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their connection evolves and challenges them throughout their lives.
The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Praise for The Midsummer Garden'This is a rich, sensual, and evocative novel, fragrant with the smell of crushed herbs and flowers, and haunted by the high cost that women must sometimes pay to find both love and their vocation.' Kate Forsyth'...compelling, passionate and admirable.' Australian Women's ...Show more