Matryoshka by Katherine Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When Sara Rose returns to live in her recently deceased grandmother's Tasmanian cottage, her past and that of her mother and grandmother is ever-present. Sara's grandmother, Nina Barsova, a Russian post-war immigrant, lovingly raised Sara in the cottage at the foot of Mt Wellington but without ever expl ...Show more
Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular | Reading Level: very good
Get swept up in an epic romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook, a heartbreaking love story spanning decades and continents--from North Carolina to Zimbabwe. Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six y ...Show more
The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good-very good
Its 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode. As she reads she wonders- When did the sadness start? And could it be that u ...Show more
Improvement by Joan Silber
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece's spirit but worries that she always picks the w ...Show more
Prize Fighter by Future D. Fidel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A Congolese refugee getting by in the Australian suburbs, Isa has a background that seems unimaginable in his new country - a childhood as a boy soldier. Now, Isa's a brilliant boxer, but his most difficult opponent isn't in the ring - it's the terrors of his past. The powerful debut novel from acclaime ...Show more
What Red Was by Rosie Price
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'I think this is the best debut fiction I've ever read... I'm still in awe of it, I think about it all the time. If you like David Nicholls, Tessa Hadley, Elizabeth Day, Meg Wolitzer, Donna Tartt, then pre-order this book. It's exceptional.' -- Pandora Sykes 'Kate Quaile,' he said. 'I like your name.' ...Show more
Lilac Girls (#1) by Martha Hall Kelly
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this runaway international bestseller reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love ...Show more
You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
From the author of the global sensation Cat Person comes You Know You Want This, a compulsive short story collection about sex, dating and modern life that will thrill you before it chills you.You Know You Want Thisis about the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it is about the horrors that a ...Show more
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Mariastella Fortuna, known as Stella, was born into rural poverty in a Calabrian village in the early 20th century. After being abandoned by their father, who left to seek his fortune in L'America, Stella grew up with her beloved mother Assunta, her brothers Giuseppe and Luigi and her sister Tina. Tough ...Show more
Crossings (TPB) by Alex Landragin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
I didn't write this book. I stole it...A Parisian bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript containing three stories, each as unlikely as the other.The first, 'The Education of a Monster', is a letter penned by the poet Charles Baudelaire to an illiterate girl. The second, 'City of Ghosts', is a noir roma ...Show more
The Near and the Far Volume 2: More Stories from the Asia-Pacific Region by Ian See
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In the outer suburbs of Perth, Australia, a seven-year-old discovers ballroom dancing. In Jakarta, Indonesia, a poet tries to move on with his life after splitting up with his boyfriend. In the Philippines' Quezon City, a nurse reflects on her late mother while caring for a dying woman. And in the Uva p ...Show more
Leading Men by Christopher Castellani
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Inspired by love story of Tennessee Williams & Frank Merlo | Reading Level: near fine
'Extraordinary' Lauren Groff, author of Florida 'Blazing... casts a spell right from the start' New York Times 'A novel of rare insight and beauty' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs To You PORTOFINO, ITALY. JULY 1953 At a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote, literary sensation Tennessee Wil ...Show more