The Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Returning home from work, Rinko is shocked to find that her flat is totally empty. Gone are her TV set, fridge and furniture, gone are all her kitchen tools, including the old Meiji mortar she has inherited from her grandmother and the Le Creuset casserole she has bought with her first salary. Gone, abo ...Show more
The Time Keeper - A novel by Mitch Albom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In Mitch Albom's newest work of fiction, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly brok ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in lo ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Widly imaginative . . . a lot of fun.' The Daily TelegraphEnter a world of wonder, intrigue, and adventure . . . London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's beloved has been murdered by Jack the Ripper. Claire Haggerty longs to escape the constraints of Victorian society. For both, time is the problem: to escap ...Show more
Nine Days by Toni Jordan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business - your own and everyone else's - as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most ...Show more
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary
The third in a series of novels that began with The Angel's Game and The Shadow of the Wind. The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from T ...Show more
Red Dirt Talking (Miles Franklin longlist 2013) by Jacqueline Wright
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Set in the outback of Western Australia, this novel centers around the disappearance of Kuj, an eight-year-old girl, during a bitter custody battle. Annie, an anthropology graduate newly arrived from the city, is increasingly distracted from her work by the mysterious event. As Annie searches for the tr ...Show more
Poseidon's Arrow by Clive Cussler
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Dirk Pitt Adventures
It's called Rapier. It is the biggest advance in naval technology in decades - an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype has vanished, and the man who developed it is dead. Now Dirk Pitt and his NUMA team must go on a desperate ...Show more
Mission to Paris by Christopher Fowler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
From the New York Times bestselling author and the "modern-day master of the genre" (New York Newsday) comes a gripping novel of espionage and deception in 1938 pre-war Paris. At the center of the intrigue is Hollywood star, Frederic Stahl. September 1938. On the eve of the Munich Appeasement, Stahl arr ...Show more
Cloud Atlas (Film Tie-in) by David Mitchell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Now a major motion picture- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventu ...Show more