The Eight by Neville
$13.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover ...Show more
Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The astonishing new work of imaginative fiction from master storyteller and futurist, Neal Stephenson, author of Reamde, Seveneves and Snow Crash Richard "Dodge" Forthrast, the billionaire founder and chairman of video game company Corporation 9592, was last seen in Neal's Stephenson's 2011 novel Reamde ...Show more
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 Quichotte is a love story of profound tenderness and humanity from a great storyteller at his brilliant best. Wise, beautifully written, as heartbreaking as it is wildly comic, its characters unforgettable, its plot dazzlingly suspenseful, Quichotte illuminates our ...Show more
The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
A thrilling and ambitious new novel from the author of the bestselling and prize-winning TERRA NULLIUS Shane Daniels and Romany Zetz have been drawn into a war that is not their own. Lives will be destroyed, families will be torn apart. Trust will be broken. When the war is over, some will return to a c ...Show more
Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 2 Crime
It starts as a game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't. But Amy Whey has done something she shouldn't. And Roux, the glamorous newcomer to Amy's suburban neighborhood, knows exactly what that is. Roux promises she will go away. She will take herself and her son, w ...Show more
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
"A compelling and vivid look at the friendships we make as women. Honest, unsettling and, like all good literature, had me asking questions about life and myself." Heather Rose, austhor of The Museum of Modern Love, winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. People went on about death bringing friends together, b ...Show more
Wearing Paper Dresses by Anne Brinsden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'In the same vein as Rosalie Ham, Brinsden weaves a compelling story of country Australia with all its stigmas, controversy and beauty.' Fleur McDonald Elise, a beautiful and artistic, if slightly brittle, city girl is rudely transplanted to the undulating, unforgiving plains of the Mallee when her husb ...Show more
So Lucky by Dawn O'Porter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A bold new novel from Dawn O'Porter, the bestselling author of The Cows. IS ANYONE'S LIFE . . . Beth shows that women really can have it all. Ruby lives life by her own rules. And then there's Lauren, living the dream. AS PERFECT AS IT LOOKS? Beth hasn't had sex in a year. Ruby feels like she's failin ...Show more
The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white ...Show more
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
James: "Adam is a debate champion caught up in his verbal dexterity. His psychologist parents are treating Darren, whose actions degrade into anger. A zig-zagging narrative reflects Adam’s attempts to piece together traumatic events buried in his adolescence. With wit and sincerity, ambiguity resolves i ...Show more
The German House by Annette Hess
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expo ...Show more
Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882-83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localised histo ...Show more