His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home. At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and American father are on a journey from New York City to a lak ...Show more
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Count ...Show more
Cousins by Salley Vickers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets. Each member of the family holds some clue to the chain of e ...Show more
A Distant Journey by Di Morrissey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In 1962 Cindy drops out of college to impulsively marry an Australian grazier, moving from the glamorous world of Palm Springs, California, to an isolated sheep station on the sweeping plains of the Riverina in New South Wales. Cindy's new life at Kingsley Downs station is not what she'd imagined as she ...Show more
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
She was disappearing inch by inch, vanishing into thin air, and then one day a postcard arrived . . . There was no return address, no signature, only a scrawled message: Say something.Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life t ...Show more
Molly and the Cat Cafe by Melissa Daley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When two-year-old tabby, Molly, loses her beloved owner, her world falls apart. Re-homed with three cat-hating dogs, she decides to take matters into her own paws and embarks on a gruelling journey to the nearest town. As Molly walks the cobbled streets of Stourton, she begins to lose all hope of findin ...Show more
London Lies Beneath by Stella Duffy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In August 1912, three friends set out on an adventure. Two of them come home. Tom, Jimmy and Itzhak have grown up together in the crowded slums of Walworth. They are used to narrow streets, the bustle of East Lane market, extended families weaving in and out of each other's lives. All three boys are exp ...Show more
The Ancestor Game: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1993 - HB by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'The Ancestor Game is like an elaborate house of many floors and wings and hidden rooms, interconnecting in surprising ways and inhabited by a richly divergent family of characters.' - Midwest Book Review..Steven Muir, Gertrude Speiss and Lang Tzu experience a dislocation, an ambivalence, at living in E ...Show more
This is How it Always is by Laurie Frankel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Rosie and Penn always wanted a daughter. Four sons later, they decide to try one last time - and their beautiful little boy Claude is born. Life continues happily for this big, loving family until the day when Claude says that, when he grows up, he wants to be a girl. As far as Rosie and Penn are concer ...Show more
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia a ...Show more
The Liberation by Kate Furnivall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Italy, 1945: as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated cities, its population fights each other to survive. Caterina Lombardi is desperate - her mother has abandoned them already and her brother is being drawn into the mafia. Early one morning, among the ruins of the bombed ...Show more
33 Revolutions by Canek Sánchez Guevara
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The hero of this mordant portrayal of life in contemporary Cuba is a black Cuban whose parents were enthusiastic supporters of the Castro Revolution. His father, however, having fallen foul of the regime, is accused of embezzlement and dies of a stroke. Following her husband's death, his mother flees th ...Show more