The Best of Adam Sharp by Simsion, Graeme
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"On the cusp of fifty, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, earns a good income as an IT contractor and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It's the lifestyle he wanted, but something's missing. Two decades ago, on the other side of the world, his part-time piano playing led him into a passionate rela ...Show more
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Darktown Ser.
Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white. On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on the other, Darktown, the African-American area guarded by the city's first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near-powerless by the authorities: they can't a ...Show more
The Woman on the Stairs by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
For decades the painting was believed to be lost. But, just as mysteriously as it disappeared, it reappears, an anonymous donation to a gallery in Sydney. The art world is stunned but so are the three men who loved the girl in the painting, the girl on the stairs. One by one they track her down to an is ...Show more
The Salamanders : A Novel by William Lane
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"This is the shape-shifting detail of life, the tiny horrible and beautiful things we don't notice until fever or trauma stop us in our tracks; Lane has pulled them from the depths of our psyche and written them into a story of family that shifts and tilts the world we know.Dreamlike, nightmarish, unfor ...Show more
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Count ...Show more
The Bourne Enigma by Eric Van Lustbader
$19.99 AUD
Category: Thriller | Series: Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne is in Moscow to attend the wedding of his old friend and fellow spymaster General Boris Karpov. But amid the celebrations, the General has an important message to deliver to Bourne - 'a lifeline,' he says, 'for the end of the world'. Before Bourne can decipher this enigmatic warning, Karpov ...Show more
Summer at Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Rosalie Ham is the author of The Dressmaker, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Australia and was made into a successful film starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving. Her second novel, Summer At Mount Hope, has all the originality and humour of its predecessor. It has been ...Show more
The Medici Ascendancy (#1 Masters of Florence) by Matteo Strukul
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Medici Chronicles
Florence, 1429: Giovanni de Medici has transformed his family bank into an unprecedented economic force. But when Giovanni is mysteriously murdered, his sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo, are forced to face a range of enemies plotting to oust the Medici from power. Published to coincide with a major new TV serie ...Show more
The Color of Our Sky: A Novel by Amita Trasi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice-a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night. India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old village g ...Show more
The Dollmaker by Nina Allen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
**NEW** Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's magazine. Letter by letter, Bramber Winters r ...Show more
The Aunt's House by Elizabeth Stead
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Sydney, 1942.Recently orphaned, Angel Martin moves into a boarding house populated by an assortment of eccentric and colourful characters. She?s befriended by the gregarious Winifred Varnham - a vision in exotic fabrics - and the numerically gifted Barnaby Grange. But not everyone is kind and her scrimp ...Show more
The Three Secret Cities (Jack West Jr #5) by Matthew Reilly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: Jack West | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From Australia's favourite novelist and author of the Scarecrow series.'A vivid, elaborately constructed odyssey with plenty of twists and some beguiling Easter eggs for die-hard Reilly fans...an author with a profuse imagination' Sydney Morning Herald HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE FOUR KINGDOMS SCORNED. THE H ...Show more