Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Patrick Melrose | Reading Level: very good
First published in 2006, Mother's Milk is the fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year and won the 2007 Prix Femina Etranger and the 2007 South Bank Literature Award. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. P ...Show more
In the Company of Strangers by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Ruby and Cat's friendship was forged on an English dockside over sixty years ago when, as terrified children, they were shipped off to Australia. It was a friendship that was supposed to last a lifetime but when news of Cat's death reaches Ruby in London, it comes after years of estrangement. Declan too ...Show more
The Monsoon Bride by Michelle Aung Thin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Winsome is just married and filled with anticipation. Her new husband is a stranger - one of the suitors chosen for her and the other mixed-race girls from the men who apply to the orphanage. But as the night train rattles towards her new home she sees possibility in this uncertain destiny. She knows sh ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from North Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers - some generous, some exploiting - to guide ...Show more
If I Should Lose You by Natasha Lester
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Camille is a nurse specialising in supporting families through the difficult decision to donate the organs of their dying loved ones. Camille's mother is a gifted but uncompromising transplant surgeon determined to make it in a man's world until her own life falls apart.
The Laughing Clowns by William McInnes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Peter Kennedy is a very large man who is remarkably happy with his life. Yet something s not quite right, and it started with a dream that smelt of luncheon meat. Peter is successful at what he does, even though he s not sure what that is anymore. When Titan Development contracts him to go to Queensland ...Show more
The Storyteller's Daughter by Maria Goodin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Meg May can't remember anything about her early childhood but her cookery-obsessed, fairytale-telling mother has filled her in on all the important details. Meg knows that her father was a French chef who died in a tragic pastry-making accident; that as a premature baby she was put on a sunny windowsill ...Show more
A Common Loss by Kirsten Tranter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
They were originally five. Elliot. Brian. Tallis. Cameron. And Dylan - charismatic Dylan - the mediator, the leader, the man each one turned to in a time of crisis. Five close friends, bonded in college, still coming together for their annual trip to Las Vegas. This year they are four. Four friends, sha ...Show more
Precious and the Mystery of Meerkat Hill (Precious Ramotswe #2) by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Precious Ramotswe
Well before Precious Ramotswe founded her Number One Ladies' Detective Agency, as an eight-year-old girl she was already solving mysteries. Here in this delightful, new, enchanting tale for children, we see how the young Precious became the crafty and intuitive private investigator we all know and love! ...Show more
Fractured by Dawn Barker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An unforgettable novel that brings to life a new mother's worst fears. Tony is worried. His wife, Anna, isn't coping with their newborn. Anna had wanted a child so badly and, when Jack was born, they were both so happy. They'd come home from the hospital a family. Was it really only six weeks ago? But A ...Show more