The Color of Our Sky: A Novel by Amita Trasi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice-a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night. India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old village g ...Show more
Sapphire Falls by Fleur McDonald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Fiona Forrest is devastated when her husband Charlie commits suicide after the accidental shooting of his mate, Eddie. Though Fiona decides to keep farming their successful property, rumours that she intends to sell keep circulating...When Detective Dave Burrows arrives to sign off on the investigation ...Show more
Closing Down by Sally Abbott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
No matter how strange, difficult and absurd the world becomes, some things never change. The importance of home. Of love. Of kindness to strangers. Of memories and dreams. Australia's rural towns and communities are closing down, much of Australia is being sold to overseas interests, states and countrie ...Show more
The End of the Day by Claire North
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Charlie meets everyone - but only once. You might meet him in a hospital, in a warzone, or at the scene of traffic accident. Then again, you might meet him at the North Pole - he gets everywhere, our Charlie. Would you shake him by the hand, take the gift he offers, or would you pay no attention to the ...Show more
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Bursting with imaginative exuberance, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY by Hannah Tinti has been described as 'One part Quentin Tarantino, and one part Scheherazade' (Ann Patchett) and will appeal to fans of The Sisters Brothers or The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. After years spent living on the run, ...Show more
The Lost Pages by Marija Pericic
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vogel Literary Prize Winner 2017
'first rate ...great humour too' Stephen Romei, The Australian 'never lets up ...hugely entertaining' Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost 'an intriguing concept' Jenny Barry, BooksPlus
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted, multigenerational love story.In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Franci ...Show more
August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Banned in several countries upon first publication, August is a Wicked Month is a simmering tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera. Separated from her husband and with her young son away, Ellen leaves behind the loneliness of London for a new life of excitement and sexual freedom. B ...Show more
To Become a Whale by Ben Hobson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The story of a young boy who has recently lost his mother, trying to make sense of the world of men and then embarking on a breathaking adventure of his own - a stunning literary debut in the tradition of Favel Parrett's Past the Shallows and Tim Winton's An Open Swimmer
Year of the Orphan by Daniel Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'There were a heat. Air hotter'n blud. She felt it bakin her skin as she moved. There weren't nothin certain but one thing i- the Reckoner were coming.' Outback Australia. 500 years from now. A girl races across the desert pursued by the reckoner, scavenged spoils held close. In a blasted landscape of a ...Show more
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: very good
"It tore at every maternal fibre in my body. I couldn't put it down." (Fiona Barton, author of The Widow). "Fierce Kingdom is a bold exploration of the ferocity of a mother's love. Riveting and beautiful, and all too real, you'll find yourself asking, what would I do? It's brilliant." (Shari Lapena, aut ...Show more
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Four friends. One promise. But someone isn't telling the truth. The twisting new mystery from bestselling phenomenon Ruth Ware. The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spe ...Show more