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
Summer at Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Rosalie Ham is the author of The Dressmaker, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Australia and was made into a successful film starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving. Her second novel, Summer At Mount Hope, has all the originality and humour of its predecessor. It has been ...Show more
Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Henry has ended his marriage to Caroline and headed off to Noosa with Mercedes' grade three teacher, Martha. Caroline, having shredded a wardrobe-full of Henry's suits, has gone after them. Craig and Lesley have dropped over briefly from next door to catch up on the fallout from Henry and Caroline's a ...Show more
Silent Music by Jane Hawking
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Immortal Souls Ser.
Growing up in London in the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth is an observant and thoughtful child who finds herself in a confusing and mysterious adult world. She seeks refuge in her memories of her idyllic stays with her grandparents in the picturesque East Anglian countryside - which provide co ...Show more
Noah's Ark by Barbara Trapido
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ali Bobrow is an other-worldly single parent with a fraught nine-year-old daughter, a malevolent 'ex' with a grabby new wife, and an underused artistic talent. A pushover when it comes to needy neighbours and uninvited children, she allows her house to be the local drop-in centre, until she collides wit ...Show more
The Medici Ascendancy (#1 Masters of Florence) by Matteo Strukul
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Medici Chronicles
Florence, 1429: Giovanni de Medici has transformed his family bank into an unprecedented economic force. But when Giovanni is mysteriously murdered, his sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo, are forced to face a range of enemies plotting to oust the Medici from power. Published to coincide with a major new TV serie ...Show more
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of heroin, they're in t ...Show more
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, ...Show more
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Contemporaries | Reading Level: General Adult
When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is that the ...Show more
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
The Toymaker by Liam Pieper
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A person is defined by the secrets they keep. Adam Kulakov likes his life. He's on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he can reasonably ...Show more