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
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
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
The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they’re bound together by the tragic death of their parents. They agree on not quite everything. Art thinks people are incapable of making sensible decisions, especially when it comes to love. That’s what algorithms are for. Mimi knows her b ...Show more
Kudos (Outline Trilogy #3) by Rachel Cusk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Outline
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma ...Show more
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he ...Show more
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Slave. Escape-Artist. Murderer. Terrorist. Spy. Lover. Mother. Trickster. Ms Mook made you want to listen to her, but I wasn't sure what to believe. She said she would turn 'one hundred the day after tomorrow', yet she looked at most eighty-seven. She said she'd been a slave, a spy, a murderer and mor ...Show more
The Little Boat on Trusting Lane by Mel Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Richard runs his alternative healing centre from an old houseboat in a scrapyard on Trusting Lane. The Little Mother Earth Ship provides spiritual sustenance at regular meetings of the Circle of IEWA. While Richard plies his new-age wisdom, disciples Finn and August help to run the centre. But warning l ...Show more