Autumn Laing by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her pearly thighs and her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and beautiful wife, Edith, and their unborn child. Fifty-three years later, cantanker ...Show more
Queenie by Alice Munro
$3.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chrissy ...Show more
What Was Promised by Tobias Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
London in the aftermath of war: children run wild on East End bombsites, while their elders strive for better lives in a country beggared by victory. Clarence and Bernadette Malcolm have come five thousand miles in search of prosperity, but find the Mother Country not at all as has been promised them; S ...Show more
Elizabeth Costello : Eight Lessons by J.M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is feted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be vener ...Show more
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
$12.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage War
This is the story of innocence betrayed, of passion and curiosity about the world of machines turned nightmarish and punished by the cruelty of which only humans are capable. It is also a story of survival and courage. Eric Lomax was tortured by the Japanese on the Burma-Siam Railway. Fifty years later ...Show more
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage War
On his third birthday, at three feet tall, Oskar decides to stop growing. On the same day, he receives his first tin drum. Together with his piercing scream, he wields his drum as an anarchic weapon, drawing forth memories from the past and passing judgement on the horrors, injustices, and eccentricitie ...Show more
Little Known Facts: A Novel by Christine Sneed
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature-his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the periphery-long to experience the glow of his flame. Anna and Will are Renn's grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they ar ...Show more
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good- very good
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the y ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The epic new novel, set during WW2, from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr. Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father a ...Show more
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itselfParis in the 1920s. It is a city of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, wh ...Show more
Black Lake by Johanna Lane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Dunlough: a rambling, idyllic estate in the Irish countryside, one that has cast a potent spell on its inhabitants for generations. But with the cost of upkeep mounting and money running thin, family patriarch John Campbell makes a bold decision: to avoid selling, he will open Dunlough's doors to touris ...Show more
Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Four years have passed since Justin Campbell's disappearance, a tragedy that rocked the small town of Southport, Texas. Did he run away? Was he kidnapped? Did he drown in the bay? As the Campbells search for answers, they struggle to hold what's left of their family together. Then one afternoon, the imp ...Show more