On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come...On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian Mc ...Show more
How I Lose You by Kate McNaughton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Wonderful' - Stylist 'Thoroughly addictive. I loved it.' - RUTH HOGAN, author of The Keeper of Lost Things 'Superb' - Louise O'Neill When Eva and Adam fall into bed one Friday night, tired and happy after drinks with friends, they have their whole lives ahead of them. But their story ends on page twel ...Show more
The Complete Stories by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Thirty-one epic stories from Australia's award-winning author David Malouf. David Malouf's imagination inhabits shocking violence, quick humor, appealing warmth and harsh cruelty with equal intensity. He shares tales of bookish boys, taciturn men and intimate stories of men and women looking for someth ...Show more
Rohypnol by Andrew Hutchinson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Fact: bad people do bad things. In the new age of money, drugs, and instant satisfaction, you make your own rules. You take what you want--not ask. There is no responsibility. There is no guilt. If someone burns you, you should do the same to them. It's an issue of equality. Andrew Hutchinson brilliantl ...Show more
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
$19.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
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Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, ...Show more
The Melody by Jim Crace
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend a ceremony at the town's avenue of fame, Busi is attac ...Show more
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 HonoreeNBCC John Leonard First Book Prize FinalistAspen Words Literary Prize FinalistCalifornia Book Award First Fiction FinalistLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Buzzfeed, S ...Show more
On The Bright Side by Hendrik Groen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The new diary from one of literature's most beloved octogenarians.On The Bright Side picks up where The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen left off, at the care home of the anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club where Hendrik and his friends are determined to enjoy their autumn years full of optimism. Written with h ...Show more
Whole Bright Year by Debra Oswald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the summer of 1976 it's picking season on an Australian stone-fruit orchard run by Celia, a hard-working woman in her early forties. Years ago, when her husband was killed as a bystander in an armed robbery, Celia left the city and brought her newborn daughter Zoe to this farm for a secure life. Now ...Show more
The Last of the Greenwoods by Clare Morrall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In a field outside Bromsgrove, two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages. No one visits and they never speak to each other. Until the day Zohra Dasgupta, a young postwoman, delivers an extraordinary letter - from a woman claiming to be the sister they thought had been murdered fifty years ...Show more
The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
New from the author of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: it's a match made in hell. Sweeping from Wimbledon to the Caribbean, from LA to mega yachts in the Med, The Singles Game is a brilliantly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high - and no-one plays by the rules. When Charlotte 'Charlie' Si ...Show more