Let Me Die in His Footsteps *Winner 2015 Edgar Allen Poe Best Novel* by Lori Roy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Everyone knows Hollerans don’t go near Baines. Aunt Juna was the start of all the hatred between the families, and even though she’s been gone a good many years, the hatred has stayed put. On a dark Kentucky night in 1952, exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran cr ...Show more
Something to Hide by Deborah Moggach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Nobody in the world knows our secret...that I've ruined Bev's life, and she's ruined mine." Petra's romantic life has always been a car-crash, and even in her sixties she's still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The fat ...Show more
Relativity by Antonia Hayes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ethan is a bright young boy obsessed with physics and astronomy who lives with his mother, Claire. Claire has been a wonderful parent to Ethan, but he's becoming increasingly curious about his father's absence in his life, wanting to fill in the gaps. Claire's life is centred on Ethan; she is fiercely ...Show more
Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley: A Novel by Jeremy Massey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established - some say the best - funeral home in Dublin. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with a client, Paddy hits a pedestrian crossing the street. He pulls over and gets out of his car, intending ...Show more
Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Love is a bygone idea, centuries-worn. There are things we can go without, and love is among them; bread and a warm hearth are not. In September 1870, a train leaves Manchester bound for London. On board is Lizzie Burns, a poor worker from the Irish slums, who is embarking on the journey that will chang ...Show more
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
'Our contemporary master Stewart O'Nan - the king of the quotidian - has changed his brush stroke and given us a picture of another American master, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the last years of his life. This is an amazing book, by one great writer about another, just an amazement.' --Elizabeth Strout, aut ...Show more
Close To Home by Robin Barker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Stories of life, love family from the bestselling author of Baby Love. A distraught father is prevented from comforting his little boy. A baby's life is put in danger by a well-meaning but offbeat couple. Two mothers fight each other for the love of their son. A couple's desperation for a child leads to ...Show more
The Remedy by Michelle Lovric
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
I was an unwilling nun, bundled into the convent by a family that had briefly lost its head . . . The nuns caught me early by my sweet tooth, hanging sugared almonds, balsamic lozenges, and candied fruit in the humid swoop of the orchard branches whenever we went . . . I married Christ in a delirium s ...Show more
A Regicide by Alain Robbe-Grillet
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who, after the electoral victory of the Church party in the country's elections, decides to assassinate the King on the day he is to visit the factory where he is employed. As the crime is described and relived, d ...Show more
First Impressions by Charlie Lovett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Book lover and Jane Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has barely started her new job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure publication: the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their enquiry draws Sophie into ...Show more
Book Of Speculation by Erika Swyler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a cliff that is slowly crumbling into the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a travelling carnival and seldo ...Show more
The Best Australian Yarns: And Other True Stories by Jim Haynes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humor, and anecdotes--the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history, and yarning to mates and other colorful characters from all parts of Australia.This collection includes ...Show more