Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
The Silk Merchant's Son by Peter Burke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, silk and sermons. In 1846, linguistics professor Fabrice Cleriquot is despatched from Lyon to the Swan River Colony, sent away with a box full of silkworms to stop him from bringing more disgrace upon the family. Accompanying him on board the Elizabeth are ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
Animal People(Prize winner People's Choice 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) by Charlotte Wood
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Why I can't review Animal People. 'I read Charlotte Wood's novel Animal People twice. I think it's one of the best contemporary novels I have read. But I cannot review it. I tried a number of times and failed each time. I only recently realised why this is. I don't want to review Animal People. I want t ...Show more
Days of Innocence and Wonder by Lucy Treloar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
For all her life, Till, now twenty-three, has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend, and her tormented half-wondering about whether she might have been able to stop it. Finally, at the age of twenty-three, Till flees her past and the hovering presence of her fearful parents. In Wir ...Show more
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What do we know, really, about each other's private lives? Her life is so full, so why is she hungry? For Piglet, getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. And who could blame her, with a childhood nickname like that? Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss - effortless hosts, ...Show more
Burn by Melanie Saward
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Growing up in small-town Tasmania, Andrew struggled at home, at school, at everything. The only thing that distracted or excited him was starting little fires. Flames boosted his morale and purified his thoughts, and they were the only thing in his life he could control. Until one day things got out of ...Show more
Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day -- in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up -- she doesn't know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed. On ...Show more
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Another rich and sumptuously told tale based on the life of artist Dorothea Graff, from award-winning and bestselling author of The Birdman's Wife and The Bee and the Orange Tree, Melissa Ashley. Set in 1700s Amsterdam and the wilds of the South American jungle, it charts the creation of one of the mos ...Show more
The Cryptic Clue: A Tea Ladies Mystery by Amanda Hampson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, have their work cut out. Solving a murder, kidnapping and arson case, and outwitting an arch criminal, earned them the respect of a local police officer. Now he needs their a ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more
Day by Michael Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabe ...Show more