The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A beautiful new Vintage Classics edition to celebrate the 15th anniversary, and 10 million copies sold worldwide, of this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel 'A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy' Ian McEwan It was 7 minutes after midnight ...Show more
Things We Left Behind (Knockemout #3) by Lucy Score
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular | Series: Knockemout Ser.
There was only one woman who could set me free. But I would rather set myself on fire than ask Sloane Walton for anything. Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul. On a quest to erase his father's mark on the family name, he spends every waking minute pulling strings and building an indes ...Show more
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet (PB) by David Mitchell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irene Nemirovsky's gripping and heartbreaking novel. Nemirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Naz ...Show more
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. he is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Hou ...Show more
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work ...Show more
Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
The Anatomy of Wings is a touching and funny novel by a fast-emerging Australian author who is catching the eye of awards judges around the country and publishers internationally. Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teen ...Show more
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Gripping, insightful and deft, Maggie O'Farrell's third novel is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives. It won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the ...Show more
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world. He in ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Essentials
Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What a ...Show more
The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"[Deborah] Rodriguez paints a vivid picture of Afghan culture. . . . As if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner."--Kirkus Reviews After hard luck and heartbreak, Sunny finally finds a place to call home--in the middle of an Afghanistan war zone. There, the thirty-eight-year-old serves up her America ...Show more
Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
WINNER OF THE 2013 STEELE RUDD AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 KIBBLE AWARD From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again ...Show more