Putney by Sofka Zinovieff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
In the spirit of Notes on a Scandal and Zoe Whittall's The Best Kind of People, an explosive, powerful novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship. A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Gr ...Show more
Chances Are by Richard Russo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo - in his first stand-alone novel in a decade - comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.
The Blessed Rita by Tommy Wieringa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'He had seen more and more people from the East in recent years. Mostly gypsies, people said. Bulgarians, Romanians - you could tell by the plates on the vans and the trailers. The Poles had been around for some time already. Burglaries, thefts. The blessings of the new Europe.' Paul Kr zen lives with h ...Show more
Return Ticket by Jon Doust
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa at the height of apartheid. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Ja ...Show more
The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A fierce and beautiful debut novel about our capacity for harming ourselves, each other and the world around us. In the early 19th century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the then-unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water. Oxley never found it, but he never ceased to believe it w ...Show more
Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'If Jane Austen had the choice between the heart and the pen, what do you think she would do?' At age twenty-eight, Jane Austen should be seeking a suitable husband, but all she wants to do is write. She is forced to take extreme measures in her quest to find true love - which lands her in the most extr ...Show more
The Light after the War by Anita Abriel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the bestselling tradition of THE GIRL FROM MUNICH and THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, an extraordinary tale based on the true story of how the author's mother survived World War II against all odds. In 1946 two young Hungarian refugees arrive in Naples determined to start a new life after losing everyon ...Show more
The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
August 1939. Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum's collection of mammals. Once she and her exhibits arrive at Lockwood Manor, however, where they are to stay for the duration of the war, Hetty soon realizes that she's taken on more ...Show more
Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'It wasn't the life I'd ever imagined for myself, but I know now that we seldom ever get what we've imagined, and that this life is less about achieving than it is about adjusting. We're not the waves that pound against the earth until it breaks down to our wants. We're the rivers, that bend and give am ...Show more
Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely frangible bodies, carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep them alive. Laura may be burned out. Her hands have be ...Show more
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set during the gold-rush era in Australia, this remarkable novel is full of unforgettable characters and deals with timeless questions of identity and belonging.Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields i ...Show more
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Times bestseller by the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale."An intricate story about war, family, secrets and,yes, wood ... An engaging, satisfying read" The Times "So cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic momentum as it zeroes in on its conclusion" Scotsma ...Show more