Devotion by Hannah Kent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Prussia, 1836 Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity . . . until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838 The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at ...Show more
Harlem Shuffle (#1 Ray Carney) by Colson Whitehead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...' To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents o ...Show more
The Golden Book by Kate Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
''Jessie had said they should go at midnight. It's the gods' time, she said, narrowing her eyes dramatically. Anything could happen.' It's the 1980s, and Ali and her best friend, Jessie, are on the cusp. In the simmering heat of summer, in their small coastal town, they are starting to chafe at the res ...Show more
Birds of a Feather by Tricia Stringer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When three women are thrown together by unusual circumstances, ruffled feelings are just the beginning. A wise, sharply observed celebration of the life-changing power of female friendships. Eve has been a partner in a Wallaby Bay fishing fleet as long as she can remember. Now they want her to sell - bu ...Show more
Three Sisters: A breath-taking new novel in The Tattooist of Auschwitz story by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'I want you to make a promise to me that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another. That you will not allow anyone to take you away from each other, ever. Do you understand?' When they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father - ...Show more
The Ghost Writer by Robert Harris
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now...' The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often' Guardian What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted ...Show more
Quiver: A Book of Erotic Tales by Tobsha Learner
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A collection of stories focusing on the spontaneous erotic experiences of a small group of middle-class acquaintances, from the heterosexual to the bisexual, and from the exhibitionistic to the sadomasochistic.
So Much For That by Lionel Shriver
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shep Knacker has long saved for 'the Afterlife', an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go, Shep finally announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without ...Show more
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...'Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friend ...Show more
No Kind of Superman (HB) by DANNY PARKER
$28.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Dad doesn't always get the small things right! But then it's not always the small things that matter. When it comes to the big things ...well, Dad has his own brand of superpowers to call on. AUTHOR: Writer Danny Parker grew up in a small English town and moved to Australia in 2005. He now lives in P ...Show more
Floundering (Shortlised Miles Franklin 2013) by Romy Ash
$27.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and disappeared. Now Loretta's returned, and she wants her boys back. Tom and Jordy hit the road with Loretta in her beat-up car. The family of three journeys across the country, squabbling, bon ...Show more