The French Perfumer (PB) by Amanda Hampson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shorthand typist required by English speaker in the South of France. Live-in, full board plus salary commensurate with experience.'Iris Turner, an unworldly young Englishwoman, arrives in the French Riviera to take up a secretarial role for the mysterious Hammond Brooke. Living in a small, exclusive hot ...Show more
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Tilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier in Paris. Now she earns her living making exquisite frocks for the people who drove her away when she was ten. Through the long Dungatar nights, sh ...Show more
Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
An expansive, heartbreaking novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'. In turn-of-the-century Shanghai, Violet Minturn is raised by her American mother, the mistress of the city's most renowned courtesan house. When the revolution comes, a cruel deception forces Violet to ...Show more
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good-very good
The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his w ...Show more
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more
Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed "The Monsters of Templeton" was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In "Delicate Edible Birds", she fulfils that promise. "Delicate Edible Birds" includes nine stories of ...Show more
Harlem Shuffle (#1 Ray Carney) by Colson Whitehead
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show)'Dazzling' Guardian 'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard 'A rich, wild book' New York Times 'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an ...Show more
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
At thirty-six, Joan knows more than most of the price of pleasure, the quotidian horror of being a woman at the mercy of a man. She knows men, too - their penchant for cruelty, the violence she has absorbed over decades that now threatens to burst from her own hands. Reeling from the public suicide of ...Show more
All The Broken Places by John Boyne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas | Reading Level: very good
All the Broken Places is John Boyne's masterful sequel to his classic bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, taking a character from that novel on a journey to a place she never goes - the past. Through her story, Boyne explores the aftermath of the war and the effects of a lifetime of guilt. 1946. ...Show more
Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4) by Dan Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Robert Langdon Ser.
*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES*Florence- Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will propel him a ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends ...Show more
Hell of a Book: WINNER of the National Book Award for Fiction by Jason Mott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Meet . . . wait, we don't actually know his name. What we do know about him is he's an author. He moves from airport to bookshop to chain hotel, on tour for his new bestseller HELL OF A BOOK. And, as people keep telling him, it's a hell of a book. Some of these people may or may not be real - because th ...Show more