Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the mo ...Show more
Scary Old Sex by Arlene Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once glamorous and still comm ...Show more
Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015*'Unsettling, deeply moving and very, very readable. I loved it' NATHAN FILER, The Shock of the Fall'A striking and highly enjoyable debut' SOPHIE HANNAHYasmin would give anything to have a friend . . .And do anything to keep one.The first time I saw you, ...Show more
Vertigo by Joanna Walsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: United no longer stock and cannot find another distributor
This is a woman as a mother, daughter, wife, spectator, lover, mistress. Observer and commentator. Actor and reactor. Dressed up bright as a child or submerged in the grey elegance of Paris, she shifts readily between roles, countries, and languages. Skilled and and successful, she controls how much she ...Show more
Bone by Bone by Sanjida Kay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Laura is making a fresh start. Recently divorced and relocated to Bristol, she's carving a new life for herself and her nine-year-old daughter, Autumn. But things aren't going as well as she'd hoped. Autumn's sweet nature and artistic bent are making her a target for bullies. When Autumn fails to retur ...Show more
Fellside by M. R. Carey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A haunting and heart-breaking new thriller from the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. It's not the kind of place you'd want to end up. But it's where Jess Moulson could be spending the rest of her ...Show more
Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald by Natasha Lester
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's the roaring twenties in the Manhattan of gin, jazz and prosperity. Women wear makeup and hitched hemlines and enjoy a new freedom to vote and work. Not so for Evelyn Lockhart, who is forbidden from pursuing her passion to become one of the first female doctors. Chasing her dream will mean turning h ...Show more
Asylum by John Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Just because you can't see the chains doesn't mean they don't exist.' In the Sanctuary, two robed men cut the hair of clients who have been called to pass through the White or Black Door. Along with their hair, the clients shed stories: of the horrors of their past, the Place they've inhabited since th ...Show more
Age of Reinvention by Karine Tuil
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt; a suspenseful tale of a tangled love triangle in the long shadow of the war on terror. Manhattan attorney Sam Tahar appears to have it all: fame, fortune, an enviable marriage to a prominent socialite, and two children. But his charmed life ...Show more
The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"I adored The Light of Paris. It's so lovely and big-hearted--it made me long for Paris."--Jojo Moyes, New York Times-bestselling author of Me Before You and After You The miraculous novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Weird Sisters--a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike. ...Show more
Dying in the First Person : A Novel by Nike Sulway
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Samuel and Morgan are twin brothers separated by several oceans. Once, when they were children together, they shared not only a family and a childhood, but a secret imaginary world that had a language of its own: Nahum. But that was decades ago: before Morgan became a wanderer whose only contact with hi ...Show more
A Beautiful Young Wife by Tommy Wieringa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Edward Landauer, a brilliant microbiologist in his forties, meets a beautiful young woman. She is the love of his life and when the two marry in France, Edward is the happiest man in the world. Ruth Walta appears to represent a victory over time, but even she cannot stop him growing older. And before l ...Show more