Falling out of Time by David Grossman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama - part play, part prose, pure poetry - to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a ...Show more
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Imperfectionists is a novel about the peculiar people who write and read an international newspaper based in Rome: from the obituary reporter who will do anything to avoid work, to the dog-obsessed publisher who seems less interested in his struggling newspaper than in his magnificent basset hound, ...Show more
Beneath The Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When the rebels come to Obinna's village, they do more than wreak terror for one night. Lining the children up in the middle of the village, they measure them against the height of an AK-47. Those who are shorter than the gun are left behind. Those who are taller are taken. Obinna and his older brother ...Show more
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli; Christina MacSweeney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sen ...Show more
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
$27.99 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
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
$32.99 AUD
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
$19.95 AUD
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
$29.99 AUD
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