How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a ...Show more
Leap by Myfanwy Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A few weeks after finishing their final exams, high school sweethearts have an argument at a party. Joe wants to go--Jen begs him to stay. They fight in the corridor, following their usual script, and then he walks out and leaves her. A few hours later she dies. Three years on, after burning up his ow ...Show more
Honours by Tim Clare
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Category: Contemporary
TRUE HONOUR IS ENDLESS. JOIN US. 1935. Norfolk.War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Delphine Venner is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall's elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable ...Show more
Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy
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Category: Contemporary
Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in MINDING FRANKIE) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderfully compelling tales: Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, ...Show more
The Mountain Can Wait by Sarah Leipciger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set in a stunning but scarred Canadian landscape, THE MOUNTAIN CAN WAIT is a story of fathers and sons and the heartache they cause each other, in the tradition of Annie Proulx. Tom Berry has always been a loner, a man who would happily live out his days in the wilderness, with just enough ammunitio ...Show more
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face li ...Show more
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Contemporary
What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out. After spending a night with an attractive stranger, she has become a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. When police find three ...Show more
All Together Now by Gill Hornby
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Category: Contemporary
The Bridgeport Community Choir is in crisis. Numbers are down. The choir leader is in hospital. The tea urn is behaving in an ominous fashion. Something must be done. New joiners Tracey Leckford and Bennett Parker might just be able to save the day. But Tracey is hiding a huge secret about her past and ...Show more
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Banished for centuries, as punishment for trying to measure time, the inventor of the world's first clock is finally granted his freedom, along with a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world and embarks on a journey with two unlikely p ...Show more
Adult Onset by Ann-Marie Macdonald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Ann-Marie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like nobody else. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day.' Emma Donoghue, author of Room Mary Rose McKinnon has two children with her partner Hilary and a fractured relationship with her mother Dolly; she also has issues with anger managem ...Show more
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding. Zara is a prostitute and a murderer, on the run from brutal captors - men who know how to punish a woman. Aliide offers refuge but not safety: she has her own criminal secrets - traitorous crimes of passion and revenge committed long ...Show more
San Miguel by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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Category: Contemporary
The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year's Day, 1888. As the trunks are unloaded onto the wet sand, thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters looks at the cliffs falling away into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life on San Miguel. Joined by her hus ...Show more