Category: Contemporary
One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood's Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an eccentric, worldly, ol ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The stunningly powerful new novel from the author of The Slap. 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and violate men in front of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly i ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 2 Crime
He's guarding a deep secret ... But so is she. A stunning new thriller about the burden of shame from blockbuster author Sara Foster Lizzie Burdett was eighteen when she vanished, and Noah Carruso has never forgotten her. She was his first crush, his unrequited love. She was also his brother's gir ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 2 Crime
How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcomin ...Show more
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A bold new novel from Dawn O'Porter, the bestselling author of The Cows. IS ANYONE'S LIFE . . . Beth shows that women really can have it all. Ruby lives life by her own rules. And then there's Lauren, living the dream. AS PERFECT AS IT LOOKS? Beth hasn't had sex in a year. Ruby feels like she's failin ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers endure a self-imposed quarantine to keep the disease from sp ...Show more
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a p ...Show more
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse, Jessie Burton's latest novel tells the story of three women and the complex connections they have shared across decades and continents. This is a novel about love, sex, work, motherhood, how we construct our pasts and dream our fu ...Show more
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
"Midalia's skill at presenting big ideas through everyday experience demonstrates how powerful good writing can be" - The West Australian Feet to the Stars, Susan Midalia's third collection of short stories, offers keenly observed details about everyday life expressed with pathos, tenderness and bracing ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
'One of my stand-out Australian reads from 2016 . . . A glorious novel, meditative and special' Hannah Kent, author of BURIAL RITES Arky Levin, a film composer in New York, has promised his wife that he will not visit her in hospital, where she is suffering in the final stages of a terminal illness. Sh ...Show more
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leigh Sales: “A work of literature that reads like an airport thriller. An incredible treat for fans of Margaret Atwood.” (Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize) The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Of ...Show more
