The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Alexandra Boyd has travelled to Bulgaria hoping to salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. But a luggage mix-up soon after she arrives finds her holding an urn filled with human ashes.As Alexandra sets out to return the precious item to its owners she finds ever more obstacles in her p ...Show more
The Midsummer Garden by Kirsty Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Travelling between lush gardens in France, windswept coastlines of Tasmania, to Tuscan hillsides and beyond, The Midsummer Garden lures the reader on an unforgettable culinary and botanical journey...1487 Artemisia is young to be in charge of the kitchens at Chateau de Boschaud but, having been taught t ...Show more
Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny...The fifth novel featuring the protagonist Tom Ripley finds the sophisticated and amoral American expatr ...Show more
The End of the Day by Claire North
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Charlie meets everyone - but only once. You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of traffic accident. Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets everywhere, our Charlie. Would you shake him by the hand, take the gift he offers, or would you pay no attention to the ...Show more
The Lost Pages by Marija Pericic
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vogel Literary Prize Winner 2017
'first rate ...great humour too' Stephen Romei, The Australian 'never lets up ...hugely entertaining' Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost 'an intriguing concept' Jenny Barry, BooksPlus
Year of the Orphan by Daniel Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'There were a heat. Air hotter'n blud. She felt it bakin her skin as she moved. There weren't nothin certain but one thing i- the Reckoner were coming.' Outback Australia. 500 years from now. A girl races across the desert pursued by the reckoner, scavenged spoils held close. In a blasted landscape of a ...Show more
Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Bridget Jones's Diary
This is the funniest book of the year. It is the new Bridget Jones novel. 8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking ...Show more
Everybody's Son: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores issues of race, class, privilege, and power and asks us to consider uncomfortable moral questions in this probing, ambitious, emotionally wrenching novel of two families--one black, one white.Duri ...Show more
Kite Runner (Special Gift Edition) by Khaled Hosseini
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste ...Show more
Solitaire: A Captivating Novel of Intrigue and Survival in Wartime Paris by Jane Thynne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
TO SAVE HER OWN LIFE, WILL SHE SACRIFICE ANOTHER? June 1940: the first summer of the war. Berlin is being bombed and nightly blackouts suffocate the city. Then France falls and a shadow descends. A shadow has fallen over Clara Vine's own life, too. She is an Anglo-German woman in a country that hates ...Show more
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the winner of the Oscar for the Best Screenplay for The Imitation Game in 2015 comes a superb historical legal thriller based on the famous 'War of the Currents' fought between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.*Soon to be a major film starring Eddie Redmayne*The man who controls electricity wi ...Show more
Bird Country by Claire Aman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Bird Country is a collection of stories that are steeped in the rural Australian landscape and the Australian psyche. The things we don't say and the relationships we yearn for hover between the lines of these moving and evocative stories, as do the smell and feel of the mud and grass plains, roads and ...Show more