All Fall Down by Cassandra Austin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When a bridge in the small outback town of Mululuk mysteriously collapses, the town is cut off from the world, and its citizens from each other. As the locals try to work out why the bridge fell and what it will take to replace it, old rivalries, forgotten romances and primitive drives come to the fore. ...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 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
The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The debut memoir from a brilliant new voice in non-fiction - gloriously funny, bitingly well-observed and emotionally raw. ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Indecently entertaining' Guardian 'Hilarious' The Times I had no idea how to commit to another human being. I could barely commit to reading a mag ...Show more
Tree Surgery for Beginners by Patrick Gale
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER, TREE SURGERY FOR BEGINNERS is a funny, elegant and eclectic novel of love, lies and the secrets we live with ' A very funny, often sad, erudite eclectic novel writ with style. Terrific' Time Out 'Excellent' The Times When Lawrence Frost wakes up on ...Show more
Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The international No.1 bestselling author writes her first sequel starring her most beloved character - form an orderly line! Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a g ...Show more
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
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Category: Contemporary
CHICAGO, SOMETIME--Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their ...Show more
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the PENGUIN CLASSICS series, this is the story of Mr Pooter, an office clerk and upright family man in a dull 1880s suburb. His diary is a wonderful portrait of the class system and inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle classes. It contains all the original illustrations, a critical introducti ...Show more
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac & William Burroughs
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arres ...Show more
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12) by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Contemporary | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 12 | Reading Level: very good
As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong, has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles o ...Show more
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE ROAD - but with hope. Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his beloved plane for short journeys, and saves his remaining ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me - please take it on faith - this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without ...Show more