Anatomy of A Disappearance by Matar Hisham
$27.99 AUD
$32.95 (15% off)
Category: Contemporary
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until Mona. When Nuri first sees Mona, sitting in her bright yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina holiday resort, ...Show more
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
$23.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unli ...Show more
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. Henry Skrimshander, newly arrived at college, shy and out of his depth, has a talent for baseball that borders on genius. But sometimes it seems that his only friend is big Mike Schwartz -- who champions the talents of others, at the expense of hi ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Har ...Show more
Small is Beautiful by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
$12.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of world economies. This remarkable book is as relevant today and its themes as pertinent and thought-provoking as when it was first published thirty years ago.Small is Beautiful looks at the economic structure of the Western w ...Show more
Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Tell-All is many things: A Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Grand Dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-li ...Show more
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Can a man be maimed by witchcraft? Can a severed head speak? Based on the most notorious of English witch-trials, this is a tale of magic, superstition, conscience and ruthless murder. It is set in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined; when, following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, ev ...Show more
Love by Angela Carter; Audrey Niffenegger (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities." Annabel and Lee are married; Lee and Buzz are brothers. A quirky threesome, they have s ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
$9.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin English Library
'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'. A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, "The House of Mirth" sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of ...Show more
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Century Trilogy 1 | Reading Level: very good
The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh ...Show more
Mary Ann in Autumn (#08 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Tales of the City - Old covers
Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now, a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gay ga ...Show more
Forecast: Turbulence by Janette Turner Hospital
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Forecast: Turbulence is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece from Janette Turner Hospital. Featuring a compelling and enigmatic cast of characters - a loner obsessed with the beautiful face of a neighbour; a militant religious cult; the mute skippe ...Show more