Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
'As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...' At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top sell ...Show more
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner Costa Novel Award 2021 Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. Inside its walls they make music, in its ...Show more
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A quirky, funny, deeply intelligent story of love, big dreams, starting up and feminist geekdom. Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, ...Show more
I Couldn't Love You More by Esther Freud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Rosaleen is young, beautiful and still a schoolgirl when, in the early Sixties, she meets the famous sculptor Felix Lehmann. Felix is Jewish, bohemian; Rosaleen, the tearaway middle daughter of Irish publicans. So their affair – running away to France to gorge on oysters, boozing and eating cakes in Soh ...Show more
The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
The most ambitious and exciting book to date by the author of the bestselling and prize-winning novel 'C' Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? Deep within t ...Show more
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; F. W. Pailthorpe (Illustrator)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others. Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the ...Show more
The Ghost Writer by Robert Harris
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now...' The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps ...Show more
Two Brothers by Ben Elton
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Berlin 1920 Two babies are born. wo brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood. As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance. And the brothers are faced with an unimaginable choice....Wh ...Show more
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destructi ...Show more
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must acco ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
$9.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced ...Show more