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
Docile by K. M. Szpara
$44.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
K. M. Szpara'sDocileis a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Do ...Show more
The Light at the End of the Day by Eleanor Wasserberg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A family scattered. Lovers torn apart. A painting that unites them all. When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow's grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess or ...Show more
The Party by Elizabeth Day
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A gripping story of betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment. Martin Gilmour and Ben Fitzmaurice have been best friends for 25 years, since their days together at Burtonbury School. They are an unlikely pair: the scholarship boy with the wrong accent ...Show more
The Confession by Jessie Burton
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Dazzlingly good, utterly engrossing . . . Without doubt one of the best novels of recent years' - Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail The sensational Sunday Times bestseller from Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Hea ...Show more
Meanwhile in Dopamine City by D. B. C. Pierre
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It’s a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City. All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe. But Shelby-Ann – his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye – has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone. So new realities are rocketing their way to 37 Palisade Row, where everything will ...Show more
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Third -- and breakthrough -- novel by an acclaimed American writer with an enchanting, quirky voice. 'The Magician's Assistant' is at once a love story and a brilliant portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past. A magician (with o ...Show more
The Morbids by Ewa Ramsey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Heart-wrenching, heart-warming and ultimately uplifting--a story about the power of a little kindness. A story of friendship, love and what it means to truly live when, sometimes, it may seem easier not to. Caitlin is convinced she's going to die. Two years ago she was a normal twenty-something with a b ...Show more
Trio by William Boyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, with ...Show more
Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered. ...Show more
To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. In the other direction come ...Show more
The End of the Day by Bill Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The second novel from Booker-longlisted Bill Clegg Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a profoundly moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of family and friendship. The End of the Day is ...Show more