Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Patrick Melrose | Reading Level: very good
First published in 2006, Mother's Milk is the fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year and won the 2007 Prix Femina Etranger and the 2007 South Bank Literature Award. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. P ...Show more
The Convent by Maureen McCarthy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'I woke up with a feeling about today,' Stella says dreamily. 'Something truly amazing is going to happen.' 'To us or to the world?' I say. 'To you.' 'To me?' I laugh. 'Nothing ever happens to me, Stella.' 'But today it will.' 'Will it be good?' She looks thoughtful and then frowns. 'I ...I don't know.' ...Show more
In the Company of Strangers by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Ruby and Cat's friendship was forged on an English dockside over sixty years ago when, as terrified children, they were shipped off to Australia. It was a friendship that was supposed to last a lifetime but when news of Cat's death reaches Ruby in London, it comes after years of estrangement. Declan too ...Show more
The Monsoon Bride by Michelle Aung Thin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Winsome is just married and filled with anticipation. Her new husband is a stranger - one of the suitors chosen for her and the other mixed-race girls from the men who apply to the orphanage. But as the night train rattles towards her new home she sees possibility in this uncertain destiny. She knows sh ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from North Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers - some generous, some exploiting - to guide ...Show more
Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney's affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden. On a drunken whim, Marie gets a tattoo - an act that gives way to an unexp ...Show more
If I Should Lose You by Natasha Lester
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Camille is a nurse specialising in supporting families through the difficult decision to donate the organs of their dying loved ones. Camille's mother is a gifted but uncompromising transplant surgeon determined to make it in a man's world until her own life falls apart.
Floundering (Shortlised Miles Franklin 2013) by Romy Ash
$27.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and disappeared. Now Loretta's returned, and she wants her boys back. Tom and Jordy hit the road with Loretta in her beat-up car. The family of three journeys across the country, squabbling, bon ...Show more
Lola Bensky by Lily Brett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lola Bensky is a nineteen-year-old rock journalist who irons her hair straight and asks a lot of questions. A high-school dropout, she's not sure how she got the job - but she's been sent by her Australian newspaper right to the heart of the London music scene at the most exciting time in music history: ...Show more
New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. With nothing to identify him, and having lost his memory and language, he is a mystery to the crew of the German ship that rescues him. The ship's doctor, a Finn, identifies the name embroidered on the man's jacket ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Film Tie-in) by Leo Tolstoy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Leo Tolstoy's tragic Russian love story "Anna Karenina" is now the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright ("Atonement, Pride and Prejudice"). Starring Keira Knightley ("A Dangerous Method") as "Anna Karenina", Jude Law ("Sherlock Holmes") as her husband Alexei, Aaron Johnson ("N ...Show more