The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick - A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29 ...Show more
Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A multi-award winning, 1.5 millon copy Japanese besteller about four friends pitted against each other in the drama of an international piano competition. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. The tender and compelling drama of four young pianists as they compete in an international p ...Show more
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. At the heart of this glittering wo ...Show more
Life After Ted by Rick Feneley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A tragic accident tests the strength of family ties. Ted McCall is a legend among Bondi lifesavers. When he is killed in a surfing accident, his death exposes long-held family secrets and sets in motion a series of revelations and betrayals. Only one thing is certain: Ted's death is a defining moment fo ...Show more
Anam by André Dao
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the g ...Show more
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian, In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woma ...Show more
Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4) by Dan Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Robert Langdon Ser.
*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES*Florence- Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will propel him a ...Show more
Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 by Sigrid Rausing
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Since the first 'Best of Young British Novelists' issue in 1983, Granta has championed the work of authors who have changed the landscape of British literature. In 1983, featured writers included Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker, among many others. Subsequent edi ...Show more
Juice (October 2024) by Tim Winton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you've never read him before. Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place ...Show more
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics) by Emily Bronte
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Wuthering Heights" is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cru ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder (H/B) by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian author
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more