Whipbird by Robert Drewe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary's new vineyard, Whipbird, six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Hugh has been ...Show more
Monsoon: The Courtney Series 10 by Wilbur Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
The sun went down behind the storm clouds, and stained them with its blood, then the rain fell upon the ship in torrents. Solid sheets of water hammered the wooden decks so hard that the din drowned the men's voices and blotted out their vision. They leave as brothers. They must return as men. Famed sai ...Show more
Cooktown by Andreas Heger
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's 2011 and in a remote fishing village in far north Queensland, ex special forces soldier Daniel Grey has just returned from a brutal tour of duty in Afghanistan. Unsure of what's next, he's sought out his old mentor and school rugby coach. He meets the coach's beautiful wife Maria, and their daugh ...Show more
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'An apposite and nuanced novel... Picoult writes about an emotive, controversial issue with unflinching precision.' Red **** The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice. Its very existence is controversial, and to the demonstrators who ba ...Show more
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Bks. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered a book that would change his life forever. Now a grown man, he is just one step away from solving the mystery of his mother?s death when a new plot is revealed, much deeper and darker than he could ever have imagined. That is when Alicia Gris appears, a soul born fr ...Show more
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling, twice-Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a tale of transformation; a richly layered masterpiece' (Financial Times) A brilliant novel ' Philip RothImpossible to put down ' IndependentDazzling ' GuardianJules Epstein has vanished from the world. He l ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Pre-read / Used. Very Good condition. Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia. Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man?s discovery, in Vietnam ...Show more
The Au Pair by Emma Rous
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A tautly plotted mystery of dark family secrets, perfect for fans of Kate Morton. 'Entrancing, compelling, atmospheric, reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier. A beautiful read that delivers a shocking and satisfying ending' Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs Parrish Seraphine Mayes and her ...Show more
Little by Edward Carey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
There is a space between life and death: it's called waxworks. Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed 'Little'. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employmet in Bern, Switzerland, under the charge of reclusive anatomist, Dr Curtius. In time the unlikely ...Show more
Berta Isla by Javier Marias
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not.'Berta and Tomas meet in Madrid and, though both young, they decide to spend their lives together. Eighteen and betrothed, Tomas leaves to study at Oxford. His talent for languages quickly catc ...Show more
Strange the Dreamer (#1) by Laini Taylor
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Prepare to be enchanted' Sun The magical Sunday Times bestseller by Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy ********* The dream chooses the dreamer. Since he was five years old, Lazlo Strange has been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder th ...Show more