The First Bad Man by Miranda July
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
This is The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. A Guardian literary highlight for 2015. A Huffington Post 'One to Watch' in 2015. "Astounding." (Lena Dunham, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl). "The First Bad Man brings together all of July's talents - it's a book that must be ...Show more
The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts
$46.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Gregory David Roberts' epic novel, Shantaram, introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters in the hidden heart of Bombay through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long awaited sequel, Lin must f ...Show more
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who s ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The thrilling new novel from the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Luminaries, now in paperback. FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable ...Show more
All My Mothers by Joanna Glen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'One of those rarest of books: so beautiful I almost couldn't bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears' STACEY HALLS'Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven' MIRANDA HART'A truly glorious life-affirming book, in which love, hope and friendship trump sorrow' DINAH JEFFERIES'Wor ...Show more
BEING DEAD by CRACE JIM
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'An extraordinarily moving love story' Observer A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon they m ...Show more
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of their intense and trouble relationship, of the women in the ...Show more
Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the day Cobb and Mary meet kayaking on Maine's Allagash River and fall in love, the two approach life with the same sense of adventure they use to conquer the river's treacherous rapids. But rivers do not let go so easily, and neither does their love. So when Mary's life takes a cruel turn, she vow ...Show more
Drink, Play, F@#k by Andrew Gottlieb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
After his wife leaves him, Bob Sullivan sets off to explore the world, experience a meaningful connection with the divine, and rediscover his passion. His travels lead him from his former marital home in New York City, to Ireland, the drinking capital of the world, on to the glitz, neon, 24-hour town th ...Show more
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
* Reissued in a new look is this richly imagined historical novel that combines mystery, history, politics and passion in a story of gripping power, from the author of SACRED HEARTS
The Last Talk with Lola Faye by Thomas H. Cook
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Thomas H. Cook returns to his home territory in this Southern Gothic mystery set in Alabama. Luke Paige, historian and writer, is signing his latest work in a bookstore when in the queue he spots a woman he hoped never to see again. Lola Faye was once his father's secret lover, the destroyer of his chil ...Show more
Landed (Prize Winner Impac Dublin shortlist 2012) by Tim Pears
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell's sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his grandparents' small farm in the hills. As an adult he moves to an English city where he builds a new life, working as a gardener. He meets Me ...Show more