Parting Words by Cass Moriarty
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Daniel Whittaker has left some unusual instructions in his will- in order for his three children to collect their generous inheritance, they must hand-deliver letters addressed to strangers from their father's past. Who are these people and what was their significance to Daniel?For his eldest son, Richa ...Show more
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'She was looking at me as if she knew everything about me, as if she'd known me for years.' From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author Orhan Pamuk is The Red-Haired Woman, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, ...Show more
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture--a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - PBS - HARPER'S BAZAAR - ESQUIRE - FIN ...Show more
Last Tudor (Tudor Court #8) by Philippa Gregory
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Ser.
A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorAt seventeen, Lady Jane Grey was England's queen for nine days before Mary Tudor claimed the throne and had her executed. Jane's younger sister, Katherine, was locked in the Tower of London by queens Mary and Elizabeth to prevent her producing a Tudor son. But the l ...Show more
The Unloved by Deborah Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Unloved is a hypnotising novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy. A group of hedonistic West European tourists gather to celebrate Christmas in a remote French chateau. Then an Englishwoman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she knows who did it. The subs ...Show more
A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adopted as a baby towards the end of World War II, Robert Dessaix grew up haunted by 'a shaft of silence' surrounding the question of his natural mother's identity, and of his own identity and sexuality. In this touching memoir, he recounts the story of a most unusual childhood on Sydney's North Shore, ...Show more
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of The Woman Upstairs. Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of th ...Show more
The Party by Elizabeth Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping story of betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment. 'Think Brideshead Revisited meets The Talented Mr Ripley with a dash of The Riot Club. I couldn't put it down' Louise O'Neill, author of Asking For ItMartin Gil ...Show more
City of Crows by Chris Womersley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Chris Womersley's haunting novel City of Crows will take you into a nightmare labyrinth where superstition rules and where it seems the Devil calls the tune." Weekend Australian France, 1673. Desperate to save herself and her only surviving child from an outbreak of plague, the widow Charlotte Picot fl ...Show more
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, control ...Show more
Dancing Home by Paul Collis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: David Unaipon Award Winners Ser.
'When he was in jail, he'd begun to prepare himself for the fight of his life, a showdown with the policeman, McWilliamsa In Dubbo, he reckoned, he'd face life with death, and see who blinked first.' Blackie and Rips are fresh out of prison when they set off on a road trip back to Wiradjuri country with ...Show more
The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperi ...Show more