Now and Again by Charlotte Rogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For Maggie Rayburn, wife, mother and secretary at a munitions plant, life is pleasant, predictable and secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, turning her world upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good - and a new-found taste for excitemen ...Show more
Shtum by Jem Lester
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ben Jewell has hit breaking point. His ten-year-old son, Jonah, has never spoken. So when Ben and Jonah are forced to move in with Ben's elderly father, three generations of men - one who can't talk; two who won't - are thrown together. As Ben battles single fatherhood, a string of well-meaning social w ...Show more
Everything I Don't Remember by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A young man called Samuel dies, but was it an accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. Through conversations with friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant bureaucrat, the loyal friend, t ...Show more
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A heart-stopping debut about protest and riot . . .1999. Victor, homeless after a family tragedy, finds himself pounding the streets of Seattle with little meaning or purpose. He is the estranged son of the police chief of the city, and today his father is in charge of one of the largest protests in the ...Show more
Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A gripping and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Elizabeth is Missing and the work of Elizabeth Harrower. I have no use for forgiveness, not yet. But other ideas like that, kindness, for example, I think that is fundamental. Resurrection; I like that too. And love, of course, love, love, lov ...Show more
The Girls by Emma Cline
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
California. The summer of 1969. In the dying days of a floundering counter-culture a young girl is unwittingly caught up in unthinkable violence, and a decision made at this moment, on the cusp of adulthood, will shape her life..."This book will break your heart and blow your mind." (Lena Dunham). Evie ...Show more
The Beast's Garden by Kate Forsyth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ava fell in love the night the Nazis first showed their true nature to the world a' A retelling of the Grimms' Beauty and The Beast, set in Nazi Germany. It's August 1939 in Germany, and Ava's world is in turmoil. To save her father, she must marry a young Nazi officer, Leo von L wenstein, who works for ...Show more
Joe Speedboat by Tommy Wieringa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When Frankie Hermans emerges from a coma after 200 days, he knows his life is never going to be the same again. For a start, he can't talk, he can't walk and it's a struggle even to wield a pen. And then there's Joe Speedboat - a boy who arrived in the sleepy village of Lomark like a blazing comet and w ...Show more
Barracuda (TV Tie In) by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Tender and brutal and blazingly brilliant, the new novel from the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Slaptakes an unflinching look at modern Australia - at our hopes and dreams, our friendships and our families - and asks what it means to be a good person, and what it takes to become o ...Show more
Forever Young by Steven Carroll
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Glenroy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The fifth novel in the acclaimed Glenroy series by multi-award winning novelist Steven Carroll. Shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award And is nostalgia not so much a longing for a place or a time, as a longing for youth itself? Forever Young is set against the tumultuous period of c ...Show more
I am Radar by Reif Larsen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This is a kaleidoscopic, epic novel about a lovestruck radio operator who discovers a secret society...In 1975, a black child is mysteriously born to white parents. His name is Radar Radmanovic. Radar grows up in suburban New Jersey, but his story rapidly becomes entangled with terrible events in Yugosl ...Show more
Angel Puss by Colleen McCullough
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'I wouldn't walk on coals of fire for any man, but Flo? She's my angel puss. My child.' It's 1960, and twenty-one-year-old Harriet ignores her father's warning that 'only fools, Bohemians and tarts live at Kings Cross', and moves into Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz's rooming house. There she learns about men, ...Show more