Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Six Bedrooms is about growing up; about discovering sex; and about coming of age. Full of glorious angst, embarrassment and small achievements. Hot afternoons on school ovals, the terrifying promise of losing your virginity, sneaking booze from your mother's pantry, the painful sophistication and squalo ...Show more
One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Canons
This book is named as Wales' Greatest Novel. This outstanding novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their innocence is exchanged for the ...Show more
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An intricate and volatile tale of love and suspense in which an unsolved, decades old murder haunts a small New England town. In Jodi Picoult's eeriest and most engrossing work yet, this is a story about the things that come back to haunt us, literally and metaphorically.
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Explores the moral dilemmas faced by the parents of a severely disabled child. When faced with the reality of a child who will be disabled, at which point should an obstetrician counsel termination? Should a parent have the right to make that choice? And as a parent, how far would you go to take care of ...Show more
The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Just after graduating college, Tristan Campbell receives a letter delivered by special courier to his apartment in San Francisco. It contains the phone number of a Mr J.F. Prichard of Twyning & Hooper, Solicitors, in London-and news that could change Tristan's life forever...In 1924, Prichard explai ...Show more
Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates th ...Show more
Desire for Chocolate by Care Santos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Three women, three centuries and the same bone-china chocolate pot: Sara, the scion of a dynasty of chocolatiers from Barcelona, who prides herself on maintaining the family tradition; Aurora, the daughter of a nineteenth-century maidservant, for whom chocolate is a forbidden luxury; Mariana, the wife o ...Show more
A Perfect Crime by A Yi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he's also planning the brutal murder of his only friend. He lures her over, strangles her, stuffs her body into the washing machine and flees town, whereupon a perilous game of cat-and-mouse begins. A shocking investiga ...Show more
The Map of Chaos (Map of Time #3) by Félix J. Palma
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time and The Map of the Sky returns with the final instalment in the bestselling, award-winning trilogy that The Washington Post called 'a big, genre-bending delight.' When the person he loves most dies in tragic circumstances, the mysterious protagoni ...Show more
State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript cor ...Show more
Ordinary Joe by Jon Teckman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. What would you do if...you were happily married ...with two gorgeous children ...and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to you ...And it wasn't a joke...Could you resist? Joe West, accountant, father a ...Show more
Generation: A John Murray Original by Paula McGrath
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
JM Originals is a new list for fresh and distinctive new writing; for books that provoke and entertain. 'She takes a step closer to the mineshaft and it's as if she steps back in time. Her grandfather is standing where she is standing now, a young man not much older than she is, who knows nothing about ...Show more