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
The Keeper of Lost Things: winner of the Richard & Judy Readers' Award and Sunday Times bestseller by Ruth Hogan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
*WINNER OF RICHARD AND JUDY AUTUMN BOOK CLUB 2017 - 'One of the most charming novels either of us has read. Don't lose it. Keep it' Richard & Judy**The perfect holiday read, recommended by thousands of readers**One of the Mail on Sunday's 'Best books for the beach this summer'* Meet the 'Keeper of ...Show more
The Institute by Stephen King
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. "This is King at his best" (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch). In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luk ...Show more
The Confession by Jessie Burton
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Dazzlingly good, utterly engrossing . . . Without doubt one of the best novels of recent years' - Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail The sensational Sunday Times bestseller from Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Hea ...Show more
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Marquez 2014
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the mor ...Show more
Interior Chinatown (C-format) by Charles Yu
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION, 2020 A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play—by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in ...Show more
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows The Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of ...Show more
Fidelity: Now a Netflix limited series by Marco Missiroli
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER' Missiroli cuts right through to the darkness of our inner lives' Roberto Saviano 'You'll feel like taking refuge in the pages of this book and never leaving its confines' La Stampa Carlo, a part-time professor of creative writing, and Margherita, an architect-turned-real ...Show more
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Post-Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long t ...Show more
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'A stand-out triumph' - The Sunday Times. The Number One bestselling novel by the author of CLOUD ATLAS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent). Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic s ...Show more
Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family--a wife and two kids--the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength. Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second ...Show more
Breathe by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
‘America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take residency at a distinguished academic institute. But then Gerard is stricken with a mysterious illness, initially misdiagnosed, and soon their life ...Show more