When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection by Entertainment Weekly * Cosmopolitan * Harper's Bazaar * Redbook * Southern Living * Good Housekeeping * PureWow * PopSugar * Bustle * Entertainment Tonight * Star Magazine * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Columbus Dispatch * Tampa Bay T ...Show more
On the Bright Side: The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
85-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. He dreams of escaping the confines of his care home and practicing hairpin turns on his mobility scooter. Inspired by his fellow members of the recently formed Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he vows to put down his Custard Cr ...Show more
Our Life in the Forest by Marie Darrieussecq; Penny Hueston (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the near future, a woman is writing in the depths of a forest. She's cold. Her body is falling apart, as is the world around her. She's lost the use of one eye; she's down to one kidney, one lung. Before, in the city, she was a psychotherapist, treating patients who had suffered trauma, in particular ...Show more
Social Creature - A Novel by Tara Isabella Burton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A friendship to die for.A Ripley story for the Instagram age set in contemporary New York; a world at once sophisticated and sordid, irresistible and irresponsible, unforgettable yet unattainableLouise is struggling to survive in New York; juggling a series of poorly paid jobs, renting a shabby flat, be ...Show more
The Necessary Marriage by Elisa Lodato
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Jane is sixteen when she falls in love with her teacher. Leonard Campbell is everything she has ever wanted: handsome, intelligent and attentive. He singles Jane out, giving her novels to read and discuss over long walks and cosy dinners. It is only once married, tied down with two children in 1980s sub ...Show more
Whipbird by Robert Drewe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Kungadgee, Victoria, Australia. A weekend in late November, 2014. At Hugh and Christine Cleary's new vineyard, Whipbird, six generations of the Cleary family are coming together from far and wide to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the arrival of their ancestor Conor Cleary from Ireland. Hugh has been ...Show more
Monsoon: The Courtney Series 10 by Wilbur Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
The sun went down behind the storm clouds, and stained them with its blood, then the rain fell upon the ship in torrents. Solid sheets of water hammered the wooden decks so hard that the din drowned the men's voices and blotted out their vision. They leave as brothers. They must return as men. Famed sai ...Show more
Cooktown by Andreas Heger
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's 2011 and in a remote fishing village in far north Queensland, ex special forces soldier Daniel Grey has just returned from a brutal tour of duty in Afghanistan. Unsure of what's next, he's sought out his old mentor and school rugby coach. He meets the coach's beautiful wife Maria, and their daugh ...Show more
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'An apposite and nuanced novel... Picoult writes about an emotive, controversial issue with unflinching precision.' Red **** The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice. Its very existence is controversial, and to the demonstrators who ba ...Show more
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Bks. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered a book that would change his life forever. Now a grown man, he is just one step away from solving the mystery of his mother?s death when a new plot is revealed, much deeper and darker than he could ever have imagined. That is when Alicia Gris appears, a soul born fr ...Show more
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling, twice-Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a tale of transformation; a richly layered masterpiece' (Financial Times) A brilliant novel ' Philip RothImpossible to put down ' IndependentDazzling ' GuardianJules Epstein has vanished from the world. He l ...Show more