Story Of O by Pauline Réage
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Story of O Ser.
The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of Grey. A beautiful young French woman, known only as 'O', is taken by her lover Rene to a splendid mansion near Paris. Here, she is initiated into an elite secret society, where she must learn to serve the sexual fantasies of Rene and his ...Show more
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Black Swan S. | Reading Level: very good
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder -- a man ...Show more
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
$23.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain...' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells ...Show more
The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Late one summer evening, Wilberforce - rich, young, and work-obsessed - makes a detour on his way home to the vast undercroft of Caerlyon Hall, and the domain of Francis Black, a place where wine, hospitality and affection flow freely. Through Francis, Wilberforce is initiated into a life rich in the pr ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a sh ...Show more
The Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An irresistible story that takes readers right into the lives of twelve different women, each with varied pasts and secrets.
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND RED by Dostoyevsky Fyodor
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. Ang ...Show more
Equator: A Novel by Wayne Ashton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
1947. Carlos slips over the orphanage wall in search of the village girl who has captured his heart. From that moment, his is a life at sea, a life that moves across the globe and across generations, lived on the turning tides of love affairs, friendships and enmities. Equator is a glorious and intricat ...Show more
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days ...Show more
Hell's Corner by David Baldacci
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Camel Club Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Camel Club returns in the breathtaking follow up to "Divine Justice" from the number one international bestselling author. On the night of the State Dinner honouring the British Prime Minister, Oliver Stone witnesses an explosion as the motorcade leaves the White House. A bomb has been detonated in ...Show more
The Five Greatest Warriors (Jack West Junior #3) by Matthew Reilly
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Jack West Junior | Reading Level: good
IT BEGAN WITH SIX STONES. Jack West Jr and his loyal team are in desperate disarray: they've been separated, their mission is in tatters, and Jack was last seen plummeting down a fathomless abyss. IT FINISHES HERE. After surviving his deadly fall, Jack must now race against his many enemies to locate an ...Show more
The Thief of Time by John Boyne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother's brutal murder. H ...Show more