Dinner with the Dissidents by John Tesarsch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
It is 1970, and cracks are appearing in the Soviet Union as it struggles to quell dissident voices. Censored at home, the Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn is lauded in the West for exposing the underbelly of communism, and is rumoured to be writing his most damaging work yet. The Kremlin is worried ...Show more
The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Vogue, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Review of Books, The National Post, Electric Literature, Kirkus 'Wields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky' Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker 'A feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it's the most e ...Show more
The Necessary Marriage by Elisa Lodato
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Jane is sixteen when she falls in love with her teacher. Leonard Campbell is everything she has ever wanted: handsome, intelligent and attentive. He singles Jane out, giving her novels to read and discuss over long walks and cosy dinners. It is only once married, tied down with two children in 1980s sub ...Show more
Whipbird by Robert Drewe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary's new vineyard, Whipbird, six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Hugh has been ...Show more
Monsoon: The Courtney Series 10 by Wilbur Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
The sun went down behind the storm clouds, and stained them with its blood, then the rain fell upon the ship in torrents. Solid sheets of water hammered the wooden decks so hard that the din drowned the men's voices and blotted out their vision. They leave as brothers. They must return as men. Famed sai ...Show more
Octet by James Wieland
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
‘Michael O’Connell is dead!’ Spanning the week of his burial, from his obituary to the wake, eight characters whose lives – some intimately, some more obliquely – have intersected his, slowly open up the carefully constructed compartments of his very private, very financially successful, life, even ...Show more
Arcadia (HB) by Di Morrissey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, ...Show more
Cooktown by Andreas Heger
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's 2011 and in a remote fishing village in far north Queensland, ex special forces soldier Daniel Grey has just returned from a brutal tour of duty in Afghanistan. Unsure of what's next, he's sought out his old mentor and school rugby coach. He meets the coach's beautiful wife Maria, and their daugh ...Show more
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'An apposite and nuanced novel... Picoult writes about an emotive, controversial issue with unflinching precision.' Red **** The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice. Its very existence is controversial, and to the demonstrators who ba ...Show more
The Spotted Dog (Corina Chapman) by Kerry Greenwood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: Corinna Chapman Ser.
Corinna Chapman is an absolute delight.' Bookseller + Publisher Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire, talented sleuth, stalwart friend and lover, is back! When a distraught Scottish veteran from Afghanistan is knocked unconscious, waking up to find his beloved ex-service dog missing, Corinna and her l ...Show more
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Bks. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered a book that would change his life forever. Now a grown man, he is just one step away from solving the mystery of his mother?s death when a new plot is revealed, much deeper and darker than he could ever have imagined. That is when Alicia Gris appears, a soul born fr ...Show more