Act of Grace by Anna Krien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games Australian soldier Toohey returns from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck, crippled by PTSD and white-knuckling life. In the Iraq of a decade earlier, aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his ps ...Show more
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: Adult
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of PAST THE SHALLOWS and WHEN THE NIGHT COMES. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a ma ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The R ...Show more
Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more
Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.' Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he's in ...Show more
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'Oh, what a book this is! Hoffman's exploration of the world of good and evil, and the constant contest between them, is unflinching; and the humanity she brings to us - it is a glorious experience. The book builds and builds, as she weaves together, seamlessly, the stories of people in the most despera ...Show more
The Rich Man's House by Andrew McGahan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
An unputdownable final novel from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The White Earth. In the freezing Antarctic waters south of Tasmania, a mountain was discovered in 1642 by the seafaring explorer Gerrit Jansz. Not just any mountain but one that Jansz estimated was an unbelievable height of twe ...Show more
The Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller | Series: The\Arkady Renko Novels Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'Martin Cruz Smith makes tension rise through the page like a shark's fin' Independent 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val McDermid Journalist Tatiana Petrovna has disappeared. Arkady Renko, iconic Moscow investigator and Tatiana's ...Show more
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
An event two decades in the making, Stephen Chbosky's Imaginary Friend redefines the horror genre. Read it with the lights on. Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven-year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night ...Show more
The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Crime
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Very Good. The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow wh ...Show more
The Confession by Jessie Burton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse, Jessie Burton's latest novel tells the story of three women and the complex connections they have shared across decades and continents. This is a novel about love, sex, work, motherhood, how we construct our pasts and dream our fu ...Show more