The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of The Woman Upstairs. Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of th ...Show more
The Party by Elizabeth Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping story of betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment. 'Think Brideshead Revisited meets The Talented Mr Ripley with a dash of The Riot Club. I couldn't put it down' Louise O'Neill, author of Asking For ItMartin Gil ...Show more
City of Crows by Chris Womersley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Chris Womersley's haunting novel City of Crows will take you into a nightmare labyrinth where superstition rules and where it seems the Devil calls the tune." Weekend Australian France, 1673. Desperate to save herself and her only surviving child from an outbreak of plague, the widow Charlotte Picot fl ...Show more
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, control ...Show more
Dancing Home by Paul Collis
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: David Unaipon Award Winners Ser.
'When he was in jail, he'd begun to prepare himself for the fight of his life, a showdown with the policeman, McWilliamsa In Dubbo, he reckoned, he'd face life with death, and see who blinked first.' Blackie and Rips are fresh out of prison when they set off on a road trip back to Wiradjuri country with ...Show more
Hover Car Racer by Matthew Reilly
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: HOVER CAR RACER
In the world of the near future, man travels everywhere in vehicles that hover four feet above the ground. But this brilliant new technology has inspired a super-fast, ultra-competitive sport the likes of which the world has never seen: hover car racing. It's both dangerous and glamorous, where racers a ...Show more
The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
You are warmly invited to . . . The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book ClubSunday 25th June 1978, 10 o'clockRSVP to Sybil Baxter - ask the operator for 'Fairvale'~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Brimming with atmosphere and warmth' Jenny Ashcroft, author of Island in the East'An absolute gem of a novel' Bette ...Show more
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE OBSERVER, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND THE TIMES'Lucid and exhilarating ... A great gift' New York Review of Books'Tantalizes and compels ... A welcome reminder of how a novel can be defiantly and brilliantly novel' Douglas Kenn ...Show more
A Sea-Chase by Roger McDonald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Judy and Wes fall in love instantly and from the beginning are rarely apart. Yet they never really share their ambitions and passions with each other. Son of a preacher, Wes, is passionate about everything and a particular cause is the battle against the French nuclear testing in the Pacific. And boatbu ...Show more
Drawing Sybella by Odette Kelada
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
WINNER OF THE 2016 DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT `Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.' ' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman On stage, a woman named Sybil Jones ...Show more
A Time of Love and Tartan (44 Scotland Street #12 HB) by Alexander McCall Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: 44 Scotland Street
Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith ...With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its twelfth season in the Scotsman, making it the longest ...Show more
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst." --Esquire From the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940 ...Show more