The Thief of Time by John Boyne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother's brutal murder. H ...Show more
The Indigo Sky by Alison Booth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In 1957, when piano teacher Ilona Talivaldis arrived in the sleepy little town of Jingera, she was mocked as the 'reffo from Latvia'. Now, just four years on, she and her fourteen-year-old daughter Zidra are at the heart of the community. But when Ilona becomes involved in the plights of two very differ ...Show more
13 Rue Therese by Elena Mauli Shapiro
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An American in Paris falls in love with two women, one of whom he can only only imagine, in this wonderful debut. As he settles into his new office in Paris, American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of century-old artifacts. The pictures, letters and objects in the box relate to the life o ...Show more
Anatomy of A Disappearance by Matar Hisham
$27.99 AUD
$32.95 (15% off)
Category: Contemporary
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until Mona. When Nuri first sees Mona, sitting in her bright yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina holiday resort, ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Har ...Show more
Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Tell-All is many things: A Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Grand Dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-li ...Show more
Love by Angela Carter; Audrey Niffenegger (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities." Annabel and Lee are married; Lee and Buzz are brothers. A quirky threesome, they have s ...Show more
Lighthouse Bay by Kimberley Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical
1901: Isabella Winterbourne has suffered the worst loss a woman can know. She can no longer bear her husband nor his oppressive upper-class family. On a voyage between London and Sydney to accompany a priceless gift to the Australian parliament, Isabella is the sole survivor of a shipwreck off the sun-d ...Show more
The Last Thread by Michael Sala
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This poignant, haunting and beautiful novel retells Michael Sala's fascinating life through fiction. From his early years in the Netherlands to moving (twice) to Australia in the 1980s, 'Michaelis' recalls the mysterious secret surrounding his estranged father, the relentless bullying of his stepfather, ...Show more
Amsterdam Stories by Nescio
$27.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
H. F. Gr nloh was a successful Dutch businessman, executiveof the Holland-Bombay Trading Company and father offour, with a secret life: under the pseudonym Nescio (Latin for"I don't know"), he wrote a series of short stories that wentunrecognized at the time but that are now widely consideredthe best pr ...Show more
Last Chance Cafe by Liz Byrski
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Margot detests shopping malls. Any distraction is welcome, and the woman who has chained herself to the escalator, shouting about the perils of consumerism, is certainly that. She recognises Dot immediately - from their campaigning days, and further back still, to when Margot married Laurence. Dot is in ...Show more
I, Anna by Elsa Lewin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
One night, Anna blacks out in a stranger's apartment. This is only the beginning of her nightmare. Fifty, middle class and respectable, Anna lives with her teenage daughter in a small New York apartment. Trying to meet people after her divorce, she begins attending singles nights, which is how she finds ...Show more