The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me - please take it on faith - this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without ...Show more
The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
In a small town on the land's edge, in the strange space at a war's end, a widow, a poet and a doctor each try to find their own peace and their own new story. In Thirroul, in 1948, people chase their dreams through the books in the railway's library. Anikka Lachlan searches for solace after her life is ...Show more
Maeve Binchy's Treasury: Over 40 Heartwarming Stories by Maeve Binchy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Maeve Binchy is one of the world's best loved story tellers. This collection from Australia and around the world gives us stories that are sad and happy, thoughtful and humourous, but always abounding with the author's trademark generosity of spirit. Families, friends, lovers and the lonely, all are dra ...Show more
Into My Arms by Kylie Ladd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
One day a woman meets a man and falls instantly and irrevocably in love with him. It hits her like a thunderbolt, and she has to have him, has to be with him, regardless of the cost, of the pain of breaking up her existing relationship. She has never felt more in synch-or in love-with anyone in her whol ...Show more
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author Aminatta Forna. Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. Th ...Show more
Lost Luggage by Jordi Punti
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristofol are four brothers - sons of the same father and four very different mothers, yet none of them knows of the others' existence. They live in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Barcelona. Their father, Gabriel Delacruz - a truck driver - abandoned them when ...Show more
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice - a bright, young physicist - meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become Jove's mistress, an affair of the heart which is ...Show more
All That Is by James Salter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol reigns, writers struggle, and publishers hustle. It is a world in which to ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
$23.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
This rich, spare, and evocative debut novel of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance, marks the emergence of a world-class talent.
The Accidental Apprentice by Vikas Swarup
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Life pivots on a few key moments. This is one of them. Sapna Sinha works in an electronics store in downtown Delhi. She hates her job, but she is ambitious and determined to succeed, and she knows without the money she brings in, her family won't be able to survive. Little does she know it but her life ...Show more
The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A luminously written, rich tale of a country on the brink of independence, and split personal loyalties within postcolonial society In 1968, Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil ethnographic filmmaker Leonard arrives from England with h ...Show more