The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightne ...Show more
Desire Lines by Felicity Volk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
Are you still a liar? The crafting of those five words, even without dispatch, left her chilled. Arctic Circle, 2012. On a lightless day at the end of the polar winter, landscape architect Evie Waddell finds herself exhuming the past as she buries Australian seeds in a frozen mountain vault - insurance ...Show more
The Night Tiger - A Novel by Yangsze Choo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The two main characters will captivate you as their paths are destined to cross... you won't be able to put this one down!' Reese Witherspoon 'I was willingly propelled into a fascinating and exotic world' Daily Mail They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take t ...Show more
Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Hailed as "Pakistan's brightest voice" ("Guardian"), prize-winning author Hanif deliver a powerful and darkly satirical novel about the the harsh, absurd hypocrisies of American intervention in the Muslim world.
A Burning by Megha MAJUMDAR
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent bec ...Show more
Olive by Emma Gannon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma Gannon. OLIVE is many things. Independent. Adrift. Anxious. Loyal. Kind. Knows her own mind. It's ok that she's still figuring it all out, navigating her world without a compass. But life comes with expectations, there are choices to be made ...Show more
When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In England, 1943, British pilot Vee Katchatourian is determined to get her flying Wings, in spite of her sex and foreign name. Meanwhile, in Occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman serves German officers in her father's guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for the resistance. What neither woman knows ...Show more
Salvation City by Sigrid Nunez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend comes a moving and eerily relevant novel that imagines the aftermath of a pandemic virus as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny.His family's sole survivor after a flu pandemic has killed large numbers of peop ...Show more
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. A girl comes of age against the knife.' So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white m ...Show more
Suitcase of Dreams by Tania Blanchard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich, a sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity, inspired by a true story.After enduring the horror of Nazi Germany and the chaos of postwar occupation, Lotte Drescher and her family arrive in Australia in 1956 full of hope for a new life. It's a land ...Show more
The Castle on Sunset - Love, Fame, Death and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For nearly ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favoured the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight, its evolution parallels the growth of Hollywood itself. Perched above the Sunset Strip like a fairy-tale castle, the Chateau seems to come ...Show more
The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star: Baby Ganesh Agency Book 3 by Vaseem Khan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Baby Ganesh Agency Ser.
The enchanting new Baby Ganesh Agency novel sees Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigating the dark side of Bollywood. Mumbai thrives on extravagant spectacles and larger-than-life characters. But even in the city of dreams, there is no guarantee of a happy ending. Rising star and incorri ...Show more