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
The Wrong Girl by Zoe Foster Blake
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Sometimes you don't know what you want until someone else has it. Lily needs a break. A man break. She hadn't exactly meant to sleep with her friend, Pete, and she certainly hadn't expected him to confess his love - for another girl - the next morning. If men were going to behave like such pigs, well, ...Show more
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China, from the cro ...Show more
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves, but Cora is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is coming into womanhood; even greater pain awaits. Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, and they plot their ...Show more
The Better Son by Katherine Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
1952. Tasmania. The green, rolling hills of the dairy town Mole Creek have a dark underside - a labyrinthine underworld of tunnels that stretch for countless miles, caverns the size of cathedrals and underground rivers that flood after heavy rain. The caves are dangerous places, forbidden to children. B ...Show more
Mash Up: Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines by John Scalzi
$18.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Stories Inspired by Famous First LinesPride and Prejudice meets Macbeth by way of The Wizard of Oz and a dollop of the speculative, in this entertaining anthology where authors get inspiration for short stories from the first lines of famous works of literature. Edited by respected anthologist Gardner D ...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
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Sometimes you have to travel to the farthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it...A panoramic historical epic and an unforgettable love story from the author of The Tenderness of Wolves, for fans of Kristin Hannah, Sarah Perry, and Barbara Kingsolver A whaler's daughter, Flora Mack ...Show more
Wild Island by Jennifer Livett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: good
Captain Charles O'Hara Booth, Commandant of Port Arthur Penal Settlement in Van Diemen's Land, fears his life will change when Sir John Franklin arrives to replace Colonel Arthur as Governor. As Franklin and his wife Jane discover, the colony is run by a clique of Arthur's former army officers, who have ...Show more
Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Finalist in the Queenland Literary Awards 2017 Longlisted in the Dublin Literary Awards 2017 A story about a love that transcends all boundaries, from one of Australia's best loved authors. 5 AUGUST, 1944. Over 1000 Japanese soldiers break out of the No.12 Prisoner of War compound on the fringes of ...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 Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Hanna Casey, local librarian on the West Coast of Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula, is wondering where it all went wrong ...As she drives her mobile library van between farms and villages she tries not to think of the sophisticated London lifestyle she abandoned after finding her barrister husband in bed w ...Show more