Max by Avi Duckor-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A beautifully written coming-of-age novel from an exciting new voice in antipodean fiction I want to let her know that choosing something is the entire problem. How do you choose something without feeling the undeniable loss of everything you rejected? Max is about to finish high school. On the surface ...Show more
You Are Here: The new novel by the author of global sensation ONE DAY by David Nicholls
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone.Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the bestselling author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.Maine, 1789: When a man is found entombed in the frozen Kennebec Rive ...Show more
The Boy Under the Table by Nicole Trope
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Tina is a young woman hiding from her grief on the streets of the Cross. On a cold night in the middle of winter she breaks all her own rules when she agrees to go home with a customer. What she finds in his house will change her life forever. Across the country Sarah and Doug are trapped in limbo, stru ...Show more
In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Zoe Howard is 17 when her brother, Russell, introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloof and harsh, Stephen is unlike anyone she has ever met, 'a weird, irascible character out of some dense Russian novel'. His sister, Anna, is shy and thoughtful, 'a little orphan'. They may come from different social worlds ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home.' Perth, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Frank, survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. In ...Show more
Home by Marilynne Robinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Gilead | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEA New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearHailed as "incandescent," "magnificent, ...Show more
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'. Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning! In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with ...Show more
Red Dog by Louis De Bernieres
$21.99 AUD
$24.95 (11% off)
Category: Australian author
In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast h ...Show more
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of marrying Henry and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate o ...Show more
The Complete Novels of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka; Edwin Muir (Translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In AmericaKarl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, ' ...Show more