First Impressions: A Novel by Charlie Lovett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Charlie Lovett first delighted readers with his New York Times bestselling debut, The Bookman's Tale. Now, Lovett weaves another brilliantly imagined mystery, this time featuring one of English literature's most popular and beloved authors, Jane Austen. Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwoo ...Show more
Match Pointe by Indigo Bloome
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
When passion turns into dangerous obsession, there are no limits in the pursuit of victory ...The sizzling new erotic romance from the internationally bestselling author of Destined to Play. Eloise Lawrance, a beautiful and dedicated ballerina, is on the cusp of achieving her dreams when her career is a ...Show more
The American Lover by Rose Tremain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s' Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands,embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And i ...Show more
I Refuse by Per Petterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two men meet by accident on a bridge early one morning. Once they were best friends - but Tommy and Jim haven't seen each other for 35 years. Back then, Tommy and his sister were abandoned by their mother and later by their abusive father, and Jim, who lived alone with his religious mother, went to high ...Show more
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Frank Bascombe Ser.
In his masterful trio of novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely-discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Now, in LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU, Bascombe returns. Sixty-seven years old, ensconced in a quiet ...Show more
The Fires of Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irene Nemirovsky's life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Francaise, it is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. After four years of bloody warfare ...Show more
My Mother's Secret: Based on a True Holocaust Story by J. L. Witterick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Franciszka and her daughter are unlikely heroines. They are simple people who don't stand out#65533; that is, until there is a crisis. In 1939, the Nazis come to Poland and start to persecute the Jews. These are unreasonable times when providing shelter to a Jew has become a death sentence. Despite this ...Show more
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
This book is a New York Times bestseller. It is the winner of a Guardian literary highlight for 2015. It is also the winner of a Huffington Post. 'One to Watch' in 2015 "Astounding." (Lena Dunham, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl). "The First Bad Man brings together all of July's tal ...Show more
The Rumour Mill by Roxy Jacenko
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Fashion week meltdowns, client tantrums, nefarious backstabbing, and motherhood ... Australia's best-known fashion PR (and star of the 2013 Celebrity Apprentice) takes you on a wild ride through the glamorous world of A-list celebrity in a light hearted, fun filled, fast paced novel for fans of trashy m ...Show more
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks nonetheless on a search to rediscover his grandmother, no long dead ...Show more
Strictly Confidential by Roxy Jacenko
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Jazzy Lou
Meet Jasmine Lewis, the smart, young publicist trying to work her way up from the bottom in Sydney's hottest PR company. She's done the coffee runs, the dry-cleaning pickups, the 5am starts, the 11pm finishes. But, still, her evil boss Diane Wilderstein is never happy. So when Jasmine finds herself bein ...Show more
The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What if the man you loved betrayed your brother? Two thousand years ago, while a young Jewish preacher from Nazareth was gathering followers among the people of Galilee, his sister swept floors and dreamed of learning to read. In Leslie Cannold's story, it is the women of Nazareth who take centre stag ...Show more