Pearl in a Cage: A Woody Creek Novel 1 by Joy Dettman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
<b>The first book in the dark and addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman</b> <b> "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" <i>The Age</i></b> Spanning two momentous decades and capturing rural Australia's complex and mysteriou ...Show more
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
With its breakneck pacing, dazzling plot twists and unforgettable characters, The Last Thing He Told Me is bestselling author Laura Dave's finest novel yet, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn. *SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JENNIFER GARNER, FROM THE MAKERS OF BIG LITTLE LIES ...Show more
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She ...Show more
Traitor by Stephen Daisley
$23.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What would make a soldier betray his country? In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy's life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that should have killed them both consigns them instead to the same military hospital. Mahmoud ...Show more
Weyward by Emilia Hart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
KATE, 2019 Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt. There, a secret lurks in the bones of the house, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. VIOLET, 1942 Violet is more interested in collecting insects and climbing tree ...Show more
The Turning by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.Here are turnings of all kinds changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours where people struggle against the terrible weight of t ...Show more
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong...? From the author of We All Want Impossible Things, a raucously funny novel with an unexpected punch about being 'sandwiched' between growing children and ageing parents and the power of change. From the bestselling author ...Show more
Anam by André Dao
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Anam is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile.A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a revolutionary government? Is it an oral history of the g ...Show more
Hopscotch by Jane Messer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Forced into an early retirement due to illness, Sam Rosen has lost any semblance of control over his life. His frustration flares into rudeness and obstinacy frequently and bizarrely. His wife Rhonda, confined to the carer role, is feeling her identity ebb slowly away as her former life retreats further ...Show more
Shallow Breath by Sara Foster
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shallow Breath is a mesmerising novel about family secrets and how far you would go to save someone you love. Two years ago, Desi Priest made a horrific mistake and destroyed her family. Now, she is coming home to make amends: to her daughter, Maya, who's nurturing her own dangerous plan; to her brother ...Show more