The Unknown Woman by Jacqueline Lunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is Tuesday May 15 and accidental housewife Lilith Grainger wakes to find herself in a photograph on the front page of the newspaper, in a place she shouldn't be, in a world her privileged family knows nothing about. At the centre of the novel is 44 year old Lilith Grainger a former actuary who gave u ...Show more
Fallout by Sadie Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
As read on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic and hungry for experience. Fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East he arrives in London and shares a flat with Paul, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh. The three of them set up a radical theatr ...Show more
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day a small New Hampshire town lost its innocence. That summer Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard along with a manuscript copy of his career-defining novel. Quebert ...Show more
Captives by Angela Meyer
$9.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Short, intense and mesmerizing. Read these very short stories on a train, a tram, a bus, or waiting in the check out line. Captives by Angela Meyer will fit into your pocket, your handbag or tucked into the cover of your ipad. Captives opens with a husband pointing his gun at his wife. There's a woman w ...Show more
Boy in the Book by Nathan Penlington
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
As a boy, Nathan Penlington had loved Choose Your Own Adventures, the literary phenomenon of the 1980s which thrust the reader into the role of main character and compelled them to make decisions and direct the flow of the story. So, when he discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on e ...Show more
Her by Harriet Lane
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two women; two different worlds. Emma is a struggling mother who has put everything on hold. Nina is sophisticated and independent - entirely in control. When the pair meet, Nina generously draws Emma into her life. But this isn't the first time the women's paths have crossed. Nina remembers Emma and sh ...Show more
The Loud Earth by Elizabeth Murray
$14.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A recluse lives in a mountain cabin above a lakeside tourist town. Acquitted of the brutal murder of her parents, she remains guilty in the eyes of the town. Shut away from their fear and anger, her world is reduced to the landscape around her: the mist across the mountains, the sway of bayonet grass, t ...Show more
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Elizabeth is missing', reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting.Lately, Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she's made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover w ...Show more
Blood and Bones by Daniel Davis Wood
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner of the 2014 Viva La Novella Prize Blood and Bone is the tale of a man haunted by the violent truths of his ancestry. Through his attempt to document the remarkable childhood of his great-aunt Abigail, we are thrown into life at the Whangie, an austere outpost at the colonial frontier. With the de ...Show more
Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment. Is it ever too late to have t ...Show more
The Hundred-Foot Journey (movie tie-in) by Richard C. Morais
$22.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
This international bestseller will hit movie screens in August 2014. The Hundred-Foot Journey is about how the hundred-foot distance between a new Indian kitchen and a traditional French one can represent the gulf between different cultures and desires. A testament to the inevitability of destiny, this ...Show more
Analogue Men by Nick Earls
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Andrew Van Fleet is 49 and feeling 50 closing in. He's bailed out of his private equity job for something that'll let him spend more time at home, but the house is overrun by iPads and teenage hormones and conversations that have moved on without him. Plus his ailing father is now lodged in the granny f ...Show more