The End of the Morning by Charmian Clift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time — symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped co ...Show more
Tom Lake: The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Dive into Tom Lake this Christmas - the breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett * THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 * * A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK * * A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *'Filled with th ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
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Category: Contemporary
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest disco ...Show more
The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid Mystery #2) by Nita Prose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: A\Molly the Maid Mystery Ser.
*The unmissable new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Maid A new mess. A new mystery. Molly the maid returns . . . Molly Gray wears her Head Maid badge proudly for every shift at the Regency Grand Hotel, plumping pillows, sweeping up the guests' secrets, silently restoring rooms to a ...Show more
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
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Category: Contemporary
'A stunning fever dream of a story that feels completely real - don't miss this fantastic thriller debut.' LEE CHILD If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a ...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
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novela He's yet another masterful younger writer coming througha Wonderful' Sebastian BarryThe house is on Montpelier Parade- just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curi ...Show more
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
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Category: Contemporary
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book... 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of wome ...Show more
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
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Category: Contemporary
Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary l ...Show more
But the Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei YU
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Category: Contemporary
Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a campus novel set off campus, and a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwo ...Show more