The Restorer by Michael Sala
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
After a year apart, Maryanne returns to her husband, Roy, bringing their eight-year-old son Daniel and teenage daughter Freya with her. The family move from Sydney to Newcastle, where Roy has bought a derelict house on the coast.As Roy painstakingly patches the holes in the floorboards and plasters over ...Show more
Mischling by Affinity Konar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental populati ...Show more
The Light on the Water by Olga Lorenzo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Recently divorced and trying to make sense of her new life, Anne takes her daughter Aida on an overnight bushwalk in the moody wilderness of Wilsons Promontory. In a split second, Aida disappears and a frantic Anne scrambles for help. Some of the emergency trackers who search for Aida already doubt Anne ...Show more
A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When Elsie Gormley falls and is forced to leave her Brisbane home of 62 years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, with their new life - new house, new city, new baby. Lucy and her husband Ben struggle to navigate their transformation from adventurous lovers to new parents and both seek to smooth the roug ...Show more
Runemarks by Joanne Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Runes Novels
Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smith's world, Order rules. Chaos, old gods, Faëries, goblins, magic, glamours-all of these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that a small bit of magic has survived. The "ruinmark" she was born with on her palm proves it-and ma ...Show more
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
At last - another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of The Time Traveller's Wife. Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers - normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But ...Show more
Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All by Jonas Jonasson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair to Good condition - slight yellowing to edges of pages. The bestselling novel from the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN. AND AGAIN. It's always awkward ...Show more
The Slow Waltz Of Turtles by Katherine Pancol
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An International BestsellerFortysomething mother of two Joséphine Cortès is at a crossroads. She has just moved to a posh new apartment in Paris after the success of the historical novel she ghostwrote for her sister, Iris. Still struggling with her divorce -- the result of her husband running off to Ke ...Show more
Under the Visible Life by Kim Echlin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Half Chinese and half Canadian, Katherine Goodnow struggles through a 1950's childhood hostile to all she represents. Then, as a teenager, she discovers jazz, and her life is transformed. Her talent for the piano brings her freedom, adventure, and a sense of purpose, helping her survive unexpected mothe ...Show more
The North Water by Ian McGuire
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the ...Show more
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Alexandra Boyd has travelled to Bulgaria hoping to salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. But a luggage mix-up soon after she arrives finds her holding an urn filled with human ashes.As Alexandra sets out to return the precious item to its owners she finds ever more obstacles in her p ...Show more
The Midsummer Garden by Kirsty Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Travelling between lush gardens in France, windswept coastlines of Tasmania, to Tuscan hillsides and beyond, The Midsummer Garden lures the reader on an unforgettable culinary and botanical journey...1487 Artemisia is young to be in charge of the kitchens at Chateau de Boschaud but, having been taught t ...Show more