The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Roisin and Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes. While Roisin grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze with a passion for science and the skies and for all there is to discover about the world, Francois was raised by his beautiful young mother, who dre ...Show more
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For fans of The Night Circus, comes a sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who discovers that his family labours under a terrible curse. Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Island Sound. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious book connected to his family. The book te ...Show more
Shelter by Jung Yun
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
You never know what goes on behind closed doors. Kyung Cho owns a house that he can't afford. Despite his promising career as a tenure-track professor, he and his wife, Gillian, have always lived beyond their means. Now their bad decisions are catching up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family's ...Show more
Waterland: Picador Classic by Graham Swift
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by John BurnsideShortlisted for the 1983 Booker prize, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the story-telling animal.Tom Crick is a pa ...Show more
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped brea ...Show more
Elsewhere, Perhaps by Amos Oz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Kibbutz of Metsudat Ram lies in the valley of Jordan, close to the border. Old and young, happy and discontented, the settlers go about their lives as the artillery rumbles in the distance and the war planes shriek overhead. Among them are Reuven, the school teacher whose true calling is poetry, his ...Show more
Inferno by Dan Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Thriller | Series: Robert Langdon
"Jam-packed with tricks...A book length scavenger hunt Mr Brown creates so energetically". (New York Times). Robert Langdon wakes up in a Florence hospital with no clue how he got there. Another attack on his life makes it very clear - someone wants him dead. And fast. To survive, Langdon must work out ...Show more
The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: General Adult
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION A schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a convicted serial killer, seeking inspiration. A pair of childhood sweethearts reunite to commit rape and murder. A devoted Mormon ...Show more
The Science of Appearances by Jacinta Halloran
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"A brilliant story of family and heredity, of the things that bind us together and that wrench us apart. Dominic and Mary are twins, but they are also opposites: Dominic, the first-born, is thoughtful and quiet, riven by the responsibility he feels over his father's death. His logical mind draws him tow ...Show more
The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. ...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
Midnight Promise by Zane Lovitt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A brilliant Melbourne crime novel, told in ten hardboiled stories. John Dorn is a private investigator. Just like his father used to be. It says 'private inquiry agent' in John's Yellow Pages ad because that's what his old man called himself, back before his business folded, his wife left him and he dra ...Show more