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
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey, Alex's story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears. And it might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you've ever read. Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conv ...Show more
The Laughing Clowns by William McInnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Peter Kennedy is a very large man who is remarkably happy with his life. Yet something s not quite right, and it started with a dream that smelt of luncheon meat. Peter is successful at what he does, even though he s not sure what that is anymore. When Titan Development contracts him to go to Queensland ...Show more
The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives a ...Show more
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Sheedy sisters had lived in Stone House for as long as anyone could remember. Set high on the cliffs on the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic ocean, it was falling into disrepair - until one woman, with a past she needed to forget, breathed new life into the place. Now a hote ...Show more
Summer Lies by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the bestselling author of The Reader, a mesmerising book about love in all its guises. A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; ...Show more
The Storyteller's Daughter by Maria Goodin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Meg May can't remember anything about her early childhood but her cookery-obsessed, fairytale-telling mother has filled her in on all the important details. Meg knows that her father was a French chef who died in a tragic pastry-making accident; that as a premature baby she was put on a sunny windowsill ...Show more
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells the story of Dellarobia?Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children ...Show more
A Common Loss by Kirsten Tranter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
They were originally five. Elliot. Brian. Tallis. Cameron. And Dylan - charismatic Dylan - the mediator, the leader, the man each one turned to in a time of crisis. Five close friends, bonded in college, still coming together for their annual trip to Las Vegas. This year they are four. Four friends, sha ...Show more
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records he ...Show more
Life of Pi [Film Tie-in] by Yann Martel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
One boy, one boat, one tiger ... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. ...Show more
Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill (Precious Ramotswe #2) by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Precious Ramotswe
Well before Precious Ramotswe founded her Number One Ladies' Detective Agency, as an eight-year-old girl she was already solving mysteries. Here in this delightful, new, enchanting tale for children, we see how the young Precious became the crafty and intuitive private investigator we all know and love! ...Show more