Aleph by Paulo Coelho
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The all-new format of ALEPH, the third sacred journey undertaken by Paulo Coelho, following on from BRIDA and THE PILGRIMAGE. 'Poetic and uplifting' GRAZIA In his most personal novel to date, Paulo Coelho confronts a grave crisis of faith. On a journey to revitalise his energy and passion he meets Hila ...Show more
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives a ...Show more
Bridie's Choice by Karly Lane
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A rollicking rural romantic yarn Bridie Farrell and Shaun Broderick come from opposite sides of the tracks. Unlike Bridie's family, who are perennial strugglers, the Brodericks are the wealthy owners of one of the most prestigious properties in the district. Still, all is not well in either family. Bri ...Show more
Carol by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfri ...Show more
The Martian by Andy Weir
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good-very good
Robinson Crusoe on Mars A survival story for the 21st century and the international bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. I'm stranded on Mars.I have no way to communicate with Earth.I'm in a Habitat designed to last 31 days.If the Oxygenator breaks ...Show more
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young man sailing f ...Show more
The Toymaker by Liam Pieper
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A person is defined by the secrets they keep. Adam Kulakov likes his life. He's on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he can reasonably ...Show more
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
At last - another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of The Time Traveller's Wife. Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers - normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But ...Show more
The Pavilion in the Clouds by Alexander McCall Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, live the Ferguson family: Bella, a precocious eight-year-old; her father Henry - owner of Pitlochry, a tea plantation - and her mother Virginia. The story cent ...Show more
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKTOP TEN BOOKS OF 2020, NEW YORK TIMES'A hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy set in the Brooklyn projects of the late 1960s. This alone may qualify it as one of the year's best novels.' The Washington PostFrom the winner of a National Book Award and aut ...Show more
Almost a Mirror by Kirsten Krauth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Like fireflies to the light, Mona, Benny and Jimmy are drawn into the elegantly wasted orbit of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk scene of 80s Melbourne, a world that includes Nick Cave and Dodge, a photographer pushing his art to the edge. With precision and richness Kirsten Krauth hauntingly evo ...Show more
Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come . . . A stellar debut' - Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Red at the Bone Joan can't change her family's past. But she can create her future. Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle ...Show more