This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep' NEW YORK TIMES 'Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian 'Begs to be read' Spectator 'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Pa ...Show more
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughterâe(tm)s wedding, June Reidâe(tm)s house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family âe" her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hun ...Show more
Ridge Hill (Gibson Family #3) by Anna Jacobs
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Gibson Saga Ser.
Book two in the heartwarming Lancashire-based Gibson series by beloved saga author Anna Jacobs. It's 1848 and preparations are underway for Annie Gibson's wedding to Bilsden's wealthy millwoner, Frederick Hallam. But not everyone is as pleased as they are. Frederick's daughter, Beatrice, is horrified at ...Show more
Floodtide by Judy Nunn
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Floodtide is a brilliant observation of turbulent times in the mighty 'Iron Ore State' - Western Australia. The novel traces the fortunes of four men and four families over four memorable decades: The prosperous post-war 1950s when childhood is idyllic and carefree in the small, peaceful city of Perth.. ...Show more
Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
If you were looking for the perfect escape, where would you go? This is the heartwarming story of one man who has given up hope and the village that gives it back to him. When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired vil ...Show more
The Light at the End of the Day by Eleanor Wasserberg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A family scattered. Lovers torn apart. A painting that unites them all. When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow's grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess or ...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
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together w ...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