Wind / Pinball - Two Early Novels by Haruki Murakami; Ted Goossen (Translator)
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Category: Contemporary
'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly.That's who I am.' Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by ...Show more
Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that w ...Show more
Temptation by Douglas Kennedy
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. An overnight success and suddenly the toast of Tinseltown ...Show more
The Tree of Seasons by Stephen Gately
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Category: Contemporary
In the months before his untimely death, Stephen Gately had written this, his first novel. The Tree of Seasons is a hidden portal into another world filled with magic. Within the tree there are four kingdoms, each represents a season and has its own ruler. The tree and the world it conceals have existed ...Show more
You, Me and Other People by Fionnuala Kearney
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Category: Contemporary
You, Me and Other People is the life-affirming, heartbreaking and ultimately stunning debut novel from Fionnuala Kearney. THEY SAY EVERY FAMILY HAS SKELETONS IN THEIR CLOSET ...But what happens when you open the door and they won't stop tumbling out? For Adam and Beth the first secret wasn't the last, i ...Show more
A Mother's Story by Amanda Prowse
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Category: Contemporary
I deserve all this because I did the worst thing a woman can do. The very worst. Jessica's wedding was like a fairytale. Her dress strewn with crystals. Her dad made a tearful speech. Her husband Matthew declared himself the luckiest man alive. But when their beautiful baby girl is born, Jessica is grip ...Show more
Bit in Between by Claire Varley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
There are seven billion people in the world. This is the story of two of them. After an unfortunate incident in an airport lounge involving an immovable customs officer, a full jar of sun-dried tomatoes, quite a lot of vomit, and the capricious hand of fate, Oliver meets Alison. In spite of this less th ...Show more
Trigger Mortis : A James Bond Novel by Anthony Horowitz
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Category: Contemporary | Series: James Bond
Incorporating original, never-before-published material from 007 creator Ian Fleming, New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz returns literary legend James Bond to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating and dashing thriller. The world's most famous spy, James Bond, has just returned victorious ...Show more
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Category: Contemporary
From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? ...Show more
Motherland by Jo McMillan
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Category: Contemporary
'I hadn't expected the Berlin Wall to be clean and white and smooth. It looked more like the edge of the swimming baths than the edge of the Cold War. On the grass of No-man's Land, fat rabbits ate and strolled about as if they'd never been hunted and nothing could disturb them. This was their land and ...Show more
Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton
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Category: Contemporary
On 24th November Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby arrive in Alaska. Within hours they are driving alone across a frozen wilderness Where nothing grows Where no one lives Where tears freeze And night will last for another fifty-four days. They are looking for Ruby's father. Travelling deeper into a sile ...Show more
Secret Son by Jenny Ackland
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Category: Contemporary
I know that two men are coming up the mountain, at this moment, including the boy from far away. I wonder what my grandson's face will look like...This is a boy in the skin of a man. I know he is innocent; it's his family soul which is guilty...An old woman sits waiting in a village that clings to a Tur ...Show more