A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself ...Show more
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread - an offbeat love story about mis-steps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection. Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways an ...Show more
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
February 29, 1944: I am about to jump out of an aeroplane for the first time … I don’t care that every man is looking at me as though I don’t belong. Besides, I’m hungover. And I think I might throw up … In 1936 intrepid young Australian journalist Nancy Wake is living in Paris after witnessing firsthan ...Show more
Providence by Max Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
From the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon a brilliant work of science fiction that tells the intimate tale of four people facing their most desperate hour--alone, together, at the edge of the universe. The video changed everything. Before that, we could believe that we were safe. Spec ...Show more
The Loudness of Unsaid Things by Hilde Hinton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
If you loved BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOST AND FOUND, you will love this debut novel. A stunning story about family, loneliness and isolation that will make you laugh, cry and be a bit kinder to those who are lost. 'My heart grew, then broke, then mended itself. A wise, funny, brave novel and a story ...Show more
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend ...Show more
A Strange Country by Muriel Barbery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Where did you come from?' he asked. 'From the bridge,' Petrus answered. 'The bridge that links our world to yours.' Then, after a silence: 'It is invisible to you.' During the longest war humankind has endured, two young Spanish officers abandon their post to follow the charismatic Petrus across a bri ...Show more
Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
'I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.' So begins the exquisitely written new novel from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings Ana is a rebellious young woman, a gifted writer with a curious, brilliant mind, who writes secret narratives about the ...Show more
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightne ...Show more
In the Time of Foxes by Lennan, Jo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray.' An escapee from the Family in Japan; an animal activist with something to hide; a café-owner in Sydney reconnecting with her est ...Show more
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set during the gold-rush era in Australia, this remarkable novel is full of unforgettable characters and deals with timeless questions of identity and belonging.Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields i ...Show more
The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery | Reading Level: very good
Frank is a service station owner on a little-used highway who just wants a quiet life. His granddaughter has been sent to stay with him to fix her attitude, but they don't talk a lot. When a badly injured young woman arrives at Frank's service station with several cars in pursuit, Frank and a handful of ...Show more