The Memory of Running (FS) by Ron McLarty
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Smithson Ide's life so far has led him nowhere. He's 43 years old, weighs 279 pounds, and keeps himself numb with food and alcohol. His only emotional ties are to his parents and to the memory of his older sister, Bethany, who has been missing for 20 years. Then his parents die in a car crash and he lea ...Show more
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet and passport - all of her money and identification. Though the police investigate, the woman senses an undercurrent of c ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It's 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages ...Show more
Hide by Matthew Griffin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'This is a great love story' Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story Wendell Wilson, a taxidermist, and Frank Clifton, a veteran, meet after the Second World War. But, in this declining textile town in a southern US state, their love holds real danger. Severing nearly all ties with the rest of the wor ...Show more
The Farmer's Wife by Rachael Treasure
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Deniliquin Ute Muster had always been on Rebecca's wish list, but with the farm and babies, she'd never managed to make it. Tonight, she decided to reclaim herself. After ten years being married to larrikin Charlie Lewis and living on her beloved property, Waters Meeting, Rebecca is confronted by a ...Show more
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A powerful and timely story of marriage, class, race and the pursuit of the American Dream. Behold the Dreamers is a dazzling debut novel about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and of what we're prepared to sacrifice to hold on to each of them. ‘We all do what we gotta do to become American, ...Show more
The Oldest Song in the World by Sue Woolfe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Kate, a lonely city woman and reluctant student, is asked by her teachers to travel to the middle of the Australian desert to record a dying Aboriginal woman singing an ancient song. She accepts because she believes that she might be able to reunite with a childhood love and solve the mystery of her pas ...Show more
A French Wedding by Hannah Tunnicliffe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A French Wedding is a novel filled with love, lies, fights, friendship and feasts, which reads like a love triangle between The Big Chill, Chocolat and Les Petits Mouchoirs ("Little White Lies"). Max is turning forty. All he wants for his birthday is for his six oldest friends to come to France to eat, ...Show more
The Last of Us by Rob Ewing
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'A story about the strength and fragility of human nature. Rob Ewing's writing is powerful, compassionate and brilliant. I absolutely loved it' JOANNA CANNON, the author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP 'Bleak, beautiful, gripping' IAN RANKIN, on Twitter The island is quiet now. On a remote Scotti ...Show more
Bright Air Black by David Vann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is 13th century B.C. and aboard the ship Argo, Medea, Jason and the Argonauts make their return journey across the Black Sea from Persia's Colchis, in possession of the Golden Fleece. David Vann, in brilliant poetic prose, gives us a nuanced and electric portrait of one of Greek mythology's most fasc ...Show more
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Completely unlike anything you've read before: this playful, poignant, genre-bending novel / entrance examination tells a story of copying, cheating, faking and messing up. Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache. Will you choose to cheat (in lif ...Show more
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A breathtaking novel... that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR "It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a ro ...Show more