San Miguel by T. Coraghessan Boyle
$19.99 AUD
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
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Of all the family gatherings in her childhood, one stands out in Amina's memory. It is 1979, in Salem India, when a visit to her grandmother's house escalates into an explosive encounter, pitching brother against brother, mother against son. In its aftermath, Amina's father Thomas rushes his family back ...Show more
Dancing In The Dark (My Struggle #4) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Knausgaard
The fourth part of a sensational literary cycle that has been hailed as "perhaps the most important literary enterprise of our times." (Rachel Cusk, "Guardian") 18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a sc ...Show more
River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy #2) by Amitav Ghosh
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Ibis Trilogy | Reading Level: General Adult
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the ...Show more
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. Their success seems to prove her point, but there's a sting in the ...Show more
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisa ...Show more
Let Me Die in His Footsteps *Winner 2015 Edgar Allen Poe Best Novel* by Lori Roy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Everyone knows Hollerans don’t go near Baines. Aunt Juna was the start of all the hatred between the families, and even though she’s been gone a good many years, the hatred has stayed put. On a dark Kentucky night in 1952, exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran cr ...Show more
Something to Hide by Deborah Moggach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Nobody in the world knows our secret...that I've ruined Bev's life, and she's ruined mine." Petra's romantic life has always been a car-crash, and even in her sixties she's still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The fat ...Show more
Relativity by Antonia Hayes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ethan is a bright young boy obsessed with physics and astronomy who lives with his mother, Claire. Claire has been a wonderful parent to Ethan, but he's becoming increasingly curious about his father's absence in his life, wanting to fill in the gaps. Claire's life is centred on Ethan; she is fiercely ...Show more
Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley: A Novel by Jeremy Massey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established - some say the best - funeral home in Dublin. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with a client, Paddy hits a pedestrian crossing the street. He pulls over and gets out of his car, intending ...Show more
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Love is a bygone idea, centuries-worn. There are things we can go without, and love is among them; bread and a warm hearth are not. In September 1870, a train leaves Manchester bound for London. On board is Lizzie Burns, a poor worker from the Irish slums, who is embarking on the journey that will chang ...Show more
The Remedy by Michelle Lovric
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
I was an unwilling nun, bundled into the convent by a family that had briefly lost its head . . . The nuns caught me early by my sweet tooth, hanging sugared almonds, balsamic lozenges, and candied fruit in the humid swoop of the orchard branches whenever we went . . . I married Christ in a delirium s ...Show more