The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island's most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. Two neighbouring families, the Georgious a ...Show more
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any ...Show more
Half the World in Winter by Maggie Joel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In 1881 in London, everything changes for the wealthy Jarmyn family. The misfortunes on the railway the family had built echoes the shocking death of nine-year-old Sofia Jarmyn. And at the heart of this family, a terrible secret is tearing their lives apart.
South of Darkness by John Marsden
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The first novel for adults from Australia's master storyteller: John Marsden. Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is ...Show more
Burial Rites (H/B) by Hannah Kent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson and his family, who are horrified and avoid Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes's spiritual gu ...Show more
The Margaret Thatcher School of Beauty by Marsha Mehran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set in Buenos Aires during the Falklands War, THE MARGARET THATCHER SCHOOL OF BEAUTY is the story of a group of displaced Iranian refugees living in a decaying Beaux Arts building in the city centre. The inhabitants of the building form an eclectic community: a sick ex-prisoner and his daughter, a promi ...Show more
10:04 by Ben Lerner
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his ...Show more
Bellman & Black (FS) by Diane Setterfield
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed, to be a man bles ...Show more
Ella Morris: A Novel by John David Morley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
'This is a bold and fascinating mystery novel of ideas. John David Morley enfolds science and human loss with great fictional cunning' Ian McEwan on The Book of Opposites '[A] splendid book' Kazuo Ishiguro on Pictures from the Water Trade 'Exquisite ...There is beauty in strange places in Morley's haunt ...Show more
The Ice StormA Novel by Rick Moody
$28.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seethin ...Show more
Independence Day by Richard Ford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an 'Existence Period' - selling real estate in New Jersey and mastering the high-wire act of normalcy. But, over one Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life. "Independenc ...Show more
Springtime by Michelle de Kretser
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still.'..W ...Show more