Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A powerful novel about the shared grief of a Palestinan and an Israeli. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i ...Show more
Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is the 1960s. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth's, a Roman Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky. Rose is a young woman who has decided, to be 'a liar for the rest of my life'. She is pregnant but also married (athough at St Elizabeth's she claims to be unwed), fleeing her dull but ...Show more
The Viscount Who Loved Me [TV-Tie-In] by Julia Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Bridgertons Ser.
# 1 New York Times BestsellerA special TV Tie-In edition to BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Anthony Bridgerton in the second of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family. A ...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 Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Michael Cunningham's luminous, compassionate new novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard hi ...Show more
The Windy Season by Sam Carmody
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the mid-west town of Geraldton on the central coast of Western Australia. He is also a previous recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards and his short fiction and non-fic ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualiti ...Show more
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The book that inspired the box office hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel and Penelope Wilton. Enticed by advertisements for a luxury retirement home in India, a group of strangers leave England to begin a new life. On arrival, however ...Show more
Heaven s Net Is Wide (#5 Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Tales of the Otori
Heaven's Net is Wide is the Prologue in the five-part Tales of the Otori series. More than four million copies have been sold in over 36 countries.'The best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman' Independent On Sunday (UK) Lord Shigeru, heir to the Ot ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees: Reese's Pick by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
Illuminations by Alan Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving ... Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality'NEIL GAIMAN'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONEIn his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years ...Show more