Hild by Nicola Griffith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'You are a prophet and seer with the brightest mind in an age. Your blood is that of the man who should have been king ...That's what the king and his lords see. And they will kill you, one day' Britain in the seventh century - and the world is changing. Small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violen ...Show more
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from Joseph O'Neill, his first since 'Netherland'.
The Story of Land and Sea by Katy Simpson Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Story of Land and Sea is a spellbinding, searing story of love, of devastating loss, and how we may survive through the lives of our children. Katy Simpson Smith has already been acclaimed as an 'heir apparent to to Michael Ondaatje and Marilynne Robinson' August, 1793. On the hot, humid coast of No ...Show more
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
$9.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
"Sentimental Education" begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more of ...Show more
The Guts by Roddy Doyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle - his new thing is finding old bands and then fin ...Show more
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Everyone knows the date of the Battle of Hastings. Far fewer people know what happened next...Set in the three years after the Norman invasion, The Wake tells the story of a fractured band of guerilla fighters who take up arms against the invaders. Carefully hung on the known historical facts about the ...Show more
The Ruins of California by Martha Sherrill
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For the Ruin family in 1970s California, as described by the precocious young Inez, life is complex. Her father, Paul, is self-obsessed, intrusive, and brilliant. He's also twice divorced, leaving Inez to bounce between two worlds and embracing neither-that of Paul's bohemian life in San Francisco and t ...Show more
Rachael's Gift by Alexandra Cameron
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Rachael is a child prodigy, a talented artist whose maturity and eloquence is far beyond her fourteen years. She's also energetic, charming and beautiful, beguiling everyone around her. To her mother, Camille, she is perfect. But perfection requires work, as Camille knows all too well. For Rachael has a ...Show more
The Sunnyvale Girls by Fiona Palmer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Three generations of Stewart women share a deep connection to their family farm, but a secret from the past threatens to tear them apart. Widowed matriarch Maggie remembers a time when the Italian prisoners of war came to work on their land, changing her heart and her home forever. Single mum Toni has ...Show more
Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Nayomi Munaweera writes with ferocity, fire and poetry of the incomprehensible madness of civil war and its effects upon those caught within it, whether in the villages and cities of Sri Lanka, or half a world away. A masterful, incendiary debut.' Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander Before civil war ...Show more
The Bone Clocks Hardcover by David Mitchell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking ...The Bone Clocks follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from ...Show more