The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A secret history of scent, memory and desire from the Sunday Times bestselling author of ELEGANCE and THE DEBUTANTE. One letter will turn newly-married Grace Munroe's life upside down: 'Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs Eva D'Orsey and it is our duty to inform you that you are named as ...Show more
Various Pets Alive and Dead by Marina Lewycka
$24.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
Lentils, free love, radical politics and family truths..."Various Pets Alive and Dead" is the wonderfully funny fourth novel from Marina Lewycka, author of the bestselling "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love wou ...Show more
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies ...Show more
Floodline by Kathryn Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Floodline is set in a fictional city which is destroyed by a flood on the eve of a huge gay mardis gras. Mikey Brown travels to Horneville with her sons Talent and Mustard (named for the parables). Mikey is driven, feisty, dynamic - and the host of a Christian shopping channel. The journey is more than ...Show more
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
An epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon. King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, ...Show more
The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The gift of heaven on earth. It will become the biggest story in the world ...When the residents of a small town on Lake Michigan start receiving phone calls from the afterlife, they all become the subject of widespread attention. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief ...Show more
The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell (Saxon Chronicles #7)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Saxon Chronicles #7
The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series The Warrior Chronicles, on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold. The Danes in the north, led by Vikin ...Show more
The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Dear Spivet Family, I have gone for a while to do some work. Don't worry, I'll be fine. I didn't want to bother you by telling about it ahead of time. Thank you for taking care of me. You are one of the best families in the world. Love, T.S. T.S. makes sense of his chaotic family life by drawing beautif ...Show more
The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Arthur Winthrop is a middle-aged headmaster at an elite prep school in Vermont. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, the strait-laced, married headmaster confesses to a much more serious crime. Arthur reveals that he has had a passionate affair with a scholarship student c ...Show more
Orfeo by Richard Powers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear - has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked ...Show more
Schroder by Amity Gaige
$12.99 AUD
$19.99 (35% off)
Category: Contemporary
Thsi book was shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2014. Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him o ...Show more
Great Ideas: Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
$9.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naught ...Show more