Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Berta Isla by Javier Marias
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not.'Berta and Tomas meet in Madrid and, though both young, they decide to spend their lives together. Eighteen and betrothed, Tomas leaves to study at Oxford. His talent for languages quickly catc ...Show more
In a Great Southern Land by Mary Anne O'Connor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the soft green hills of Ireland to the wild Shipwreck Coast of southern Victoria, the rich farm lands of New South Wales to the sudden battlefields of Ballarat, this is an epic story of the cost of freedom and the value of love in a far-flung corner of the world where a new nation struggles to be b ...Show more
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Roots of Chaos Ser.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Season, a trailblazing, epic high fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it.A world divided.A queendom without an heir.An ancient enemy awakens.The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys fo ...Show more
The French Photographer by Natasha Lester
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the author of The Paris Seamstress comes a story of courage, family and forgiveness. Manhattan, Paris, 1942: When Jessica May's successful modelling career is abruptly cut short, she is assigned to the war in Europe as a photojournalist for Vogue. But when she arrives the army men make her life as ...Show more
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In his first full length work since Shortcomings in 2007, Adrian Tomine has produced another unforgettable collection of stories and characters: 'Amber Sweet' shows the disastrous impact of mistaken identity in a hyper-connected world; 'A brief history of the art form known as Hortisculpture' details th ...Show more
Araluen by Judy Nunn
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. On a blistering hot day in 1850, George and Richard Ross take their first steps on Australian soil after three long months at sea. All they have is each other, and a quarterly remittance from their irate father who has ...Show more
Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
"Buster Casey was every small kid born into a small town, searching for real thrills in a world of video games and action/adventure movies. Anyone who s ever kissed him would do well to seek treatment, for his recreational drug of choice is rabies and he gets bitten by black widow spiders for the priapi ...Show more
The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A moving and deeply felt homage to the power of nature and art by one of the world's most beloved authors. Do two young girls have the power to change the world? Maria, raised by powerful older women, lives in a remote village in Burgundy, where she discovers her gift of clairvoyance, of healing and of ...Show more
This Must be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The dazzling new novel from Sunday Times bestselling, Costa Novel Award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ir ...Show more
Shtum by Jem Lester
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Ben Jewell has hit breaking point. His ten-year-old son, Jonah, has never spoken. So when Ben and Jonah are forced to move in with Ben's elderly father, three generations of men - one who can't talk; two who won't - are thrown together. As Ben battles single fatherhood, a string of well-meaning social w ...Show more