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
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village.
Praise by Andrew McGahan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner of The "Australian"/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Canada-Australia Literary Award. "Praise" is an utterly frank and dar ...Show more
Dunedin by Shena Mackay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: VMC
New Zealand, 1909. After weeks at sea the new minister, Jack Mackenzie, arrives from Scotland with his unhappy wife and children in tow. A keen naturalist, he is more enthralled by the botanical - and carnal - delights of Dunedin than in the wellbeing of his flock. In London, eighty years later, Jack Ma ...Show more
The Orchard on Fire by Mackay, Shena
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles. Ruby and I stared at it and each other . . . dark-windowed, out of place in a thicket of thorns, it was the perfect hide-out, house, the camp of our dreams' ...Show more
Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy #3) by Amitav Ghosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Ibis Trilogy
The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares ...Show more