At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village.
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records he ...Show more
Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Ibis Trilogy
The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares ...Show more
The Birth Of Venus by Sarah Dunant
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and opportunities to paint to the glory of God. Soon her love of art and her li ...Show more
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
His whole nation is celebrating what is the worst day of his life. Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he's a hero. Billy and the rest of Bravo Company were filmed defeating Iraqi insurgents in a ferocious firefight. Now Bravo's three minutes of extreme bravery is a YouTube sensation and ...Show more
Kiss Kiss: Short Stories (Adult) by Roald Dahl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband? In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister ...Show more
The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A luminously written, rich tale of a country on the brink of independence, and split personal loyalties within postcolonial society In 1968, Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil ethnographic filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with h ...Show more
The Wrong Girl by Zoe Foster Blake
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Sometimes you don't know what you want until someone else has it. Lily needs a break. A man break. She hadn't exactly meant to sleep with her friend, Pete, and she certainly hadn't expected him to confess his love - for another girl - the next morning. If men were going to behave like such pigs, well, ...Show more
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their ...Show more
Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the vein of Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread and Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton, Miller's Valley is an emotionally powerful story about a family you will never forget. In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths ...Show more
Cousins by Salley Vickers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets. Each member of the family holds some clue to the chain of e ...Show more
A Distant Journey by Di Morrissey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In 1962 Cindy drops out of college to impulsively marry an Australian grazier, moving from the glamorous world of Palm Springs, California, to an isolated sheep station on the sweeping plains of the Riverina in New South Wales. Cindy's new life at Kingsley Downs station is not what she'd imagined as she ...Show more