Absolution by Patrick Flanery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to embark upon a project that will establish his reputation - he is to write Clare's biography. But how ...Show more
The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an in ...Show more
Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Henry has ended his marriage to Caroline and headed off to Noosa with Mercedes' grade three teacher, Martha. Caroline, having shredded a wardrobe-full of Henry's suits, has gone after them. Craig and Lesley have dropped over briefly from next door to catch up on the fallout from Henry and Caroline's al ...Show more
Guns 'n' Rose (#10 Les Norton) by Robert G. Barrett
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Norton needed a holiday - anywhere - as long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to oblige - Les could have his house at Terrigal. All he had to do was look after George Brennan's nephew for a week while he was there. Sounded okay to Norton, and it was better than spending his own money. ...Show more
We Ate the Road Like Vultures by Lynnette Lounsbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Fiction novel
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour's son. Dusty Ravich, the deceased boy, was best friends with Landreaux's five-year ...Show more
The Shore by Sara Taylor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This title was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2015. It was also shortlisted for the Times/Peters Fraser Dunlop Young writer of the Year Award. It is longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015. The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia ...Show more
Green Island by Shawna Yan Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"February 28, 1947. Trapped inside their home due to an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed narrator of Green Island. A few days later, he is one of the many thousands of people dragged away from their families. Missing for a decade, he eventually return ...Show more
The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
How can hope exist when the past is so easily forgotten?Pasha Ivanov is a child of the Freeze, born in Moscow during Brezhnev's repressive rule over the Soviet Union. As a small child, Pasha sat at the kitchen table night after night as his parents and their friends gathered to preserve the memory of te ...Show more
Paris, He Said by Christine Sneed
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college she is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries: one in New York, the other in ...Show more
Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The 2005 novel The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes, the bestselling author of Me Before You and two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. Australia, 1946. 650 brides are departing for England to meet the men they married in wartime. But instead of the luxury liner they were expecting, they find t ...Show more
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trys ...Show more