Other Houses by Paddy O'Reilly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lily works as a cleaner. She moves through houses in inner-city Melbourne, unseen, scrubbing away the daily residue of other people's privilege. Her partner Janks works the line in a local food factory. With every pay check they inch further away from their former world of poverty and addiction.Lily and ...Show more
Leviathan by Paul Auster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin .The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. Wh ...Show more
Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Sunny,its former proprietor and the new owner of the Screaming Peacock Vineyard in the Pacific Northwest. But can she handle the challenges of life on her own?Yazmina,the young mother who now runs the cafe, until a terrifying event strikes at the heart of her family, and business . . .LaylaandKat, two A ...Show more
Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: David Unaipon Award Winners Ser.
When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity.Her journey ...Show more
An Island by Karen Jennings
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiled himself from the known world only to find himself called to the service of others, themselves exiled from the world by cruelty and circumstance. It is on these grounds that this writer deftly construct ...Show more
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Virago V S. | Reading Level: very good
Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - ...Show more
The Fiery Cross (#5 Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Outlander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. 1771- the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other.Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a man of honour, a man of worth. Exiled from ...Show more
The Yellow Bird Sings (TPB) by Jennifer Rosner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer’s barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother’s stories can sing the melodies Shira compose ...Show more
The Yellow House by Emily O'Grady
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The winner of the prestigious literary award that has launched over a hundred authors - The Australian/Vogel's Literary award
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
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
New York Times Bestseller A charming novel of self-discovery and second chances from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread Willa Drake has had three opportunities to start her life over: in 1967, as a schoolgirl whose mother has suddenly disappeared; in 1977, when considering a ...Show more
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, and the rampant burning of mosques that followed, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the diverse, frenzied edg ...Show more