Hooked by Samantha X
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Samantha X is not your typical hooker. She's the wrong side of 35, has two kids and counts a wild night out dining at her local pizzeria. Career-wise, she had it all; writing for Australia's top selling woman's magazines; appearing as a media expert on television and travelling the world for the sake of ...Show more
Boyhood Island (#3 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: My Struggle | Reading Level: very good
'Rare and Ruthless... Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times' Guardian Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the ca ...Show more
Academy Street by Mary Costello
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Academy Street is the heart-breaking and evocative story of one woman's life spanning six decades. Tess's childhood in 1940's rural Ireland is defined by the sudden death of her mother. Later, in New York, she encounters the ferocious power and calamity of love, and the effects of catastrophic fate. The ...Show more
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (US Ed) by Muriel Barbery
$28.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renee, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantank ...Show more
Mothers Grimm by Danielle Wood
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
You make deals with God. You make deals with the Devil. You're not fussy. But as a wise man once said: It's the saying you don't care what you get what gets you jiggered. So you say it, and you're jiggered, but what you give birth to is a hedgehog. It's prickly and its cry is a noise so terrible that yo ...Show more
Euphoria by Lily King
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance enc ...Show more
Reluctantly Charmed by Ellie O'Neill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Kate McDaid is listing her new-year's resolutions hoping to kick-start her rather stagnant love life and career when she gets some very strange news. To her surprise, she is the sole benefactor of a great great-great-great aunt and self-proclaimed witch also called Kate McDaid, who died over 130 years a ...Show more
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends ...Show more
The Food of Love Cookery School by Nicky Pellegrino
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Condition: **NEW** In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in their lives. Moll is a foodie and an exhausted working mum on the holiday of a lifetime. Tricia, a top London lawyer is taking a break from the demands of her job and her family. ...Show more
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world--an ...Show more
Savage Magic by Lloyd Shepherd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
It's 1814 and the streets of London's Covent Garden are at the centre of a dark trade, enticing rich and poor alike with a cocktail of gin and beer and sex. Behind their own fashionable private doors in the surrounding parishes a group of aristocratic young men are found murdered, all of them wearing th ...Show more