Home by Larissa Behrendt
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Home is an award-winning work from a talented and unique voice. A cross-generational story spanning 1916 to 1995, it explores issues of racial and social injustice while circling poetically around the one abiding theme of 'home'. Candice, a Murri lawyer working with native land claims, leaves the city f ...Show more
The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. For the first time ever, Penguin Classics unites these two enduring fav ...Show more
On Love by Charles Bukowski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and ...Show more
The Double Comfort Safari Club (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #11) by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 11 | Reading Level: good-very good
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, goo ...Show more
The Secret Recipe for Second Chances by Josephine Barrett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lucy Muir is leaving her husband. It's complicated. They're joint owners and chefs at one of the best restaurants in town, so making a clean break is tough. But, let's face it, a woman can only take so much cheating, recipe stealing and lack of good grace. Despondently driving around the back streets of ...Show more
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Nothing can break the bond between sisters ... When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Sunday lunch to say that her younger sister, Tess, is missing, she boards the first flight home to London. But as she learns about the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance, she is stunned ...Show more
Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
There is a fire and they are in There. They are in there ...Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one mother, Grace, sees the smoke and runs. She knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning building to rescue her. Afterwards, Grace must find the identit ...Show more
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent page-turner about a daughter's search for her mother, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers.Throughout her blockbuster career, Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich pro ...Show more
The Convent by Maureen McCarthy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'I woke up with a feeling about today,' Stella says dreamily. 'Something truly amazing is going to happen.' 'To us or to the world?' I say. 'To you.' 'To me?' I laugh. 'Nothing ever happens to me, Stella.' 'But today it will.' 'Will it be good?' She looks thoughtful and then frowns. 'I ...I don't know.' ...Show more
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Sheedy sisters had lived in Stone House for as long as anyone could remember. Set high on the cliffs on the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic ocean, it was falling into disrepair - until one woman, with a past she needed to forget, breathed new life into the place. Now a hote ...Show more
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village.
Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Ibis Trilogy
The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares ...Show more