Shtum by Jem Lester
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Ben Jewell has hit breaking point. His ten-year-old son, Jonah, has never spoken. So when Ben and Jonah are forced to move in with Ben's elderly father, three generations of men - one who can't talk; two who won't - are thrown together. As Ben battles single fatherhood, a string of well-meaning social w ...Show more
The Beast's Garden by Kate Forsyth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ava fell in love the night the Nazis first showed their true nature to the world a' A retelling of the Grimms' Beauty and The Beast, set in Nazi Germany. It's August 1939 in Germany, and Ava's world is in turmoil. To save her father, she must marry a young Nazi officer, Leo von L wenstein, who works for ...Show more
Barracuda (TV Tie In) by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Tender and brutal and blazingly brilliant, the new novel from the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Slaptakes an unflinching look at modern Australia - at our hopes and dreams, our friendships and our families - and asks what it means to be a good person, and what it takes to become o ...Show more
I am Radar by Reif Larsen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This is a kaleidoscopic, epic novel about a lovestruck radio operator who discovers a secret society...In 1975, a black child is mysteriously born to white parents. His name is Radar Radmanovic. Radar grows up in suburban New Jersey, but his story rapidly becomes entangled with terrible events in Yugosl ...Show more
Sleeping On Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 AND WINNER OF THE 2016 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world. A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy ...Show more
The Best of Adam Sharp by Simsion, Graeme
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"On the cusp of fifty, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, earns a good income as an IT contractor and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It's the lifestyle he wanted, but something's missing. Two decades ago, on the other side of the world, his part-time piano playing led him into a passionate rela ...Show more
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Darktown Ser.
Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white. On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on the other, Darktown, the African-American area guarded by the city's first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near-powerless by the authorities: they can't a ...Show more
The Woman on the Stairs by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned but so are the three men who loved the girl in the painting, the girl on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an is ...Show more
The Salamanders : A Novel by William Lane
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"This is the shape-shifting detail of life, the tiny horrible and beautiful things we don't notice until fever or trauma stop us in our tracks; Lane has pulled them from the depths of our psyche and written them into a story of family that shifts and tilts the world we know.Dreamlike, nightmarish, unfor ...Show more
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Count ...Show more
The Bourne Enigma by Eric Van Lustbader
$19.99 AUD
Category: Thriller | Series: Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne is in Moscow to attend the wedding of his old friend and fellow spymaster General Boris Karpov. But amid the celebrations, the General has an important message to deliver to Bourne - 'a lifeline,' he says, 'for the end of the world'. Before Bourne can decipher this enigmatic warning, Karpov ...Show more
Summer at Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Rosalie Ham is the author of The Dressmaker, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Australia and was made into a successful film starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving. Her second novel, Summer At Mount Hope, has all the originality and humour of its predecessor. It has been ...Show more