A Question of Betrayal by Zoe Miller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
She's afraid of the future, haunted by the past ...Ever since the deaths of her adored parents, Carrie Cassidy has avoided risk and commitment, fearful of bringing something precious into her life only to lose it again. So now she finds herself working in yet another uninteresting job, and the love of h ...Show more
Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by a beautiful yet ruthless pirate. He will be spared, Mad Hannah Mabbot tells him, as long as he can conjure an exquisite meal every Sunday from the ship's meager supplies. While Wedgwood attempts to satisfy his captor with feats ...Show more
All That is Lost Between Us by Sara Foster
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Foster cranks up the tension with a cast of characters concealing dark and explosive secrets.' Hannah Richell, Australian Women's Weekly The lies we tell for love are the most dangerous of all. Seventeen-year-old Georgia has a secret - one that is isolating her from everyone she loves. She is despera ...Show more
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Michael Frayn's classic novel is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives. Michael Frayn is t ...Show more
The Tin Men by Michael Frayn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Why not program computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do - such as praying and behaving morally? At the William Morris Institute of Automation Research they are doing just that to free mankind for the really stimulating and demanding tasks of living today - first and fore ...Show more
Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Suzy Schwarz has learnt one or two things about life: other people know how you should live better than you do; sisters (especially Fran) can destroy your sanity and self-esteem; lust calls for careful timing because it rarely coincides with that of your partner; and most heartbreaking of all, parents d ...Show more
Seeing the Elephant: A Novel by Portland Jones
$24.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Seeing the Elephant is poignant story of a remarkable relationship between Frank Stevens, an Australian soldier sent to the Vietnamese Highlands to recruit and train the local hill tribes during the Vietnam War, and his Vietnamese translator, Minh.The story is told through letters from Frank to his gran ...Show more
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the mo ...Show more
Scary Old Sex by Arlene Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once glamorous and still comm ...Show more
Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015*'Unsettling, deeply moving and very, very readable. I loved it' NATHAN FILER, The Shock of the Fall'A striking and highly enjoyable debut' SOPHIE HANNAHYasmin would give anything to have a friend . . .And do anything to keep one.The first time I saw you, ...Show more
Vertigo by Joanna Walsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: United no longer stock and cannot find another distributor
This is a woman as a mother, daughter, wife, spectator, lover, mistress. Observer and commentator. Actor and reactor. Dressed up bright as a child or submerged in the grey elegance of Paris, she shifts readily between roles, countries, and languages. Skilled and and successful, she controls how much she ...Show more
Bone by Bone by Sanjida Kay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Laura is making a fresh start. Recently divorced and relocated to Bristol, she's carving a new life for herself and her nine-year-old daughter, Autumn. But things aren't going as well as she'd hoped. Autumn's sweet nature and artistic bent are making her a target for bullies. When Autumn fails to retur ...Show more