The Meaning of Grace by Deborah Forster
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Mum is the reference point. If you ever get confused about anything, there she is, waiting with all her knowledge of you.' Grace Fisher, mother of three, one day decides her husband is a sore disappointment and moves the family from Melbourne to a coastal village in Victoria. But Ian's slow dissolution ...Show more
1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3 by Haruki Murakami
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel ...Show more
I, Anna by Elsa Lewin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
One night, Anna blacks out in a stranger's apartment. This is only the beginning of her nightmare. Fifty, middle class and respectable, Anna lives with her teenage daughter in a small New York apartment. Trying to meet people after her divorce, she begins attending singles nights, which is how she finds ...Show more
The Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Returning home from work, Rinko is shocked to find that her flat is totally empty. Gone are her TV set, fridge and furniture, gone are all her kitchen tools, including the old Meiji mortar she has inherited from her grandmother and the Le Creuset casserole she has bought with her first salary. Gone, abo ...Show more
The Time Keeper - A novel by Mitch Albom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In Mitch Albom's newest work of fiction, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly brok ...Show more
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, as he moves from his well-heeled Midwest home to study at Princeton and then starts frequenting the circles of high society as an aspiring writer. Experiencing failure and frustration in lo ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Widly imaginative . . . a lot of fun.' The Daily TelegraphEnter a world of wonder, intrigue, and adventure . . . London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's beloved has been murdered by Jack the Ripper. Claire Haggerty longs to escape the constraints of Victorian society. For both, time is the problem: to escap ...Show more
Nine Days by Toni Jordan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business - your own and everyone else's - as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most ...Show more
Poseidon's Arrow by Clive Cussler
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Dirk Pitt Adventures
It's called Rapier. It is the biggest advance in naval technology in decades - an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype has vanished, and the man who developed it is dead. Now Dirk Pitt and his NUMA team must go on a desperate ...Show more
Cloud Atlas (Film Tie-in) by David Mitchell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Now a major motion picture- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventu ...Show more