Dancing Home by Paul Collis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: David Unaipon Award Winners Ser.
'When he was in jail, he'd begun to prepare himself for the fight of his life, a showdown with the policeman, McWilliamsa In Dubbo, he reckoned, he'd face life with death, and see who blinked first.' Blackie and Rips are fresh out of prison when they set off on a road trip back to Wiradjuri country with ...Show more
Hover Car Racer by Matthew Reilly
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Category: Contemporary | Series: HOVER CAR RACER
In the world of the near future, man travels everywhere in vehicles that hover four feet above the ground. But this brilliant new technology has inspired a super-fast, ultra-competitive sport the likes of which the world has never seen: hover car racing. It's both dangerous and glamorous, where racers a ...Show more
The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
You are warmly invited to . . . The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book ClubSunday 25th June 1978, 10 o'clockRSVP to Sybil Baxter - ask the operator for 'Fairvale'~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Brimming with atmosphere and warmth' Jenny Ashcroft, author of Island in the East'An absolute gem of a novel' Bette ...Show more
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE OBSERVER, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND THE TIMES'Lucid and exhilarating ... A great gift' New York Review of Books'Tantalizes and compels ... A welcome reminder of how a novel can be defiantly and brilliantly novel' Douglas Kenn ...Show more
A Sea-Chase by Roger McDonald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Judy and Wes fall in love instantly and from the beginning are rarely apart. Yet they never really share their ambitions and passions with each other. Son of a preacher, Wes, is passionate about everything and a particular cause is the battle against the French nuclear testing in the Pacific. And boatbu ...Show more
Drawing Sybella by Odette Kelada
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
WINNER OF THE 2016 DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT `Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.' ' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman On stage, a woman named Sybil Jones ...Show more
A Time of Love and Tartan (44 Scotland Street #12 HB) by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Contemporary | Series: 44 Scotland Street
Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith ...With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its twelfth season in the Scotsman, making it the longest ...Show more
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst." --Esquire From the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940 ...Show more
The Mountain Between Us (Film Tie-In) by Charles Martin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba From the author of Where the River Ends, comes this page-turning story of love and survival. On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, w ...Show more
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Remember the last book you told someone they had to read? Lily and the Octopus is the next one. This is a story about that special someone: the one you trust, the one you can't live without. For Ted Flask, that someone special is his aging companion Lily, who happens to be a dog. Lily and the Octopus r ...Show more
Atlantic Black by A. S. Patric
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
`A powerful and mesmerising voyage into darkness. Atlantic Black creates an indelible portrait of humanity sailing towards war.¿Heather Rose, Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. In this haunting new novel, Katerina Klova and her mother are crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner. When Anne suffers a psychotic ...Show more
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
NEW YORK TIMES100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly' GUARDIANBEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives restlessly around the country and lives in an insalubrious tower block that h ...Show more