My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the moment Marion first lays eyes on Tom - her best friend's big brother, broad, blond, blue-eyed - she is smitten. And, when he comes home from National Service to be a policeman, Marion, a newly qualified teacher, is determined to win him. Unable to acknowledge the signs that something is amiss, ...Show more
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A celebration of the power of community, love forged in pain and the redemption that comes from deep kindness in the face of terrible loss. Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It's the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers Ladies' Night Dinne ...Show more
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A NEW YORKER AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * GMA BUZZ PICK * INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER * A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I * "Will live in your mind long after you've closed the final pages." --Maggie O'Farrell, best-selling author ...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
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possi ...Show more
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner of the Christopher Isherwood PrizeA Guardian, Spectator, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year'What a stunning novel.' Graham Norton'Funny, passionate, heartbreaking.' Tracey Thorn'Life-enhancing.' Scotsman'Unforgettable.' Cólm Toibín'Spectacular.' Books of the Year, ...Show more
The Best of Adam Sharp by Simsion, Graeme
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"On the cusp of fifty, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, earns a good income as an IT contractor and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It's the lifestyle he wanted, but something's missing. Two decades ago, on the other side of the world, his part-time piano playing led him into a passionate rela ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, ...Show more
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
''Immaculately constructed, acidly observed and gripping from start to finish, A Burning is a brilliant debut.'' The Guardian A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchase ...Show more
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie She will breathe a new empire into life - but all worlds can escape their ...Show more
The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John
$23.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
At F. G. Goode's department store, the women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush and the summer sales that follow. But it's Sydney in the 1950s, and there's still just enough time left on a hot and frantic day to dream and scheme... By the time the last marked-down frock has be ...Show more