Leap by Myfanwy Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A few weeks after finishing their final exams, high school sweethearts have an argument at a party. Joe wants to go--Jen begs him to stay. They fight in the corridor, following their usual script, and then he walks out and leaves her. A few hours later she dies. Three years on, after burning up his ow ...Show more
Honours by Tim Clare
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
TRUE HONOUR IS ENDLESS. JOIN US. 1935. Norfolk.War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Delphine Venner is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall's elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable ...Show more
Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in MINDING FRANKIE) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderfully compelling tales: Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, ...Show more
The Mountain Can Wait by Sarah Leipciger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set in a stunning but scarred Canadian landscape, THE MOUNTAIN CAN WAIT is a story of fathers and sons and the heartache they cause each other, in the tradition of Annie Proulx. Tom Berry has always been a loner, a man who would happily live out his days in the wilderness, with just enough ammunitio ...Show more
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face li ...Show more
A Bad Character by Deepti Kapoor
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A highly charged fiction debut about a young woman in India, and the love that both shatters and transforms her She is twenty, restless in New Delhi. Her mother has died; her father has left for Singapore. He is a few years older, just back to India from New York. When they meet in a cafe one afternoon, ...Show more
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out. After spending a night with an attractive stranger, she has become a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. When police find three ...Show more
All Together Now by Gill Hornby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Bridgeport Community Choir is in crisis. Numbers are down. The choir leader is in hospital. The tea urn is behaving in an ominous fashion. Something must be done. New joiners Tracey Leckford and Bennett Parker might just be able to save the day. But Tracey is hiding a huge secret about her past and ...Show more
Tightrope by Simon Mawer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is now back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. De-briefed by the same shadowy branch of the secret service that sent her to Paris to extract a French atomic scientist, Marian is now plunged into the cold war. Simon Mawer's s ...Show more
Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
"A triumph: spellbinding, profound and almost problematically addictive.... Morally complex, atmospheric, romantic and psychologically deep, The Paying Guests is an astonishing achievement and a notable Booker omission." --Daily Express (UK)The year is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disill ...Show more
Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
When she gets the email announcing her redundancy, Ruby Stanhope hopes to maintain the composure expected of your average London investment banker. Instead, the next day's hangover brings two unfortunate discoveries. First, her impromptu reply to the bosses has gone viral, published everywhere from Face ...Show more
Ruby Blues by Jessica Rudd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'Answer the question, Ruby.' 'There was no question.' 'Are you or are you not planning to use a trip to the United States to skip your birthday?' 'I will be crossing the international dateline at the time, rendering me twenty-nine forever more.' In Campaign Ruby, the novel where it all began, Ruby manag ...Show more