Collected Stories by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Collected Stories, with a cover by Michael Leunig Collected Stories combines the brilliant, bizarre, funny, chilling pieces originally published in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes (plus three stories not in either). Those from Fat Man posit what-ifs, with ...Show more
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A hilarious and heartwarming New York Times bestselling novel--now a major motion picture "This 48-karat beach read is crazy fun." --Entertainment Weekly When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and qual ...Show more
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: LEFT NEGLECTED
One typical morning, Sarah Nickerson, a woman in her mid-thirties, is late for work, racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school and daycare. She tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when she takes her eye off the road for a second too long. In that blink of an eye, all th ...Show more
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
1996 - Cabramatta, Sydney. 'Just let him go.' Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. T ...Show more
The Lost Song of Paris by Sarah Steele
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!!!! THIS BOOK MUST BE READ!!' Real Reader 'I loved it' Real Reader 'A fantastic read. I was gripped and enthralled. Wonderful storytelling' JILL MANSELL'Fascinating, moving, romantic and utterly gripping. I couldn't stop reading once I'd started' KATIE FFOR ...Show more
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely ma ...Show more
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She ...Show more
A Colder War by Charles Cumming
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Thomas Kell | Reading Level: very good
Internationally acclaimed as "a premier writer of espionage thrillers" (USA Today), Charles Cumming is "among the most skillful spy novelists" (Washington Post) and "a worthy successor to the masters...like John le Carr and Len Deighton" (Chicago Sun-Times). Now, with A COLDER WAR, Cumming returns with ...Show more
Guilt by Matt Nable
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Guilt starts off with a group of friends getting ready for an eighteenth birthday party. Life is exciting and the world is at their feet. Jump forward twenty years and they are all struggling with where they are at. Tommy has just got out of prison. Lani, the girl he loved at school, is unhappily marrie ...Show more
About Grace by Anthony Doerr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning All The Light We Cannot See. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home. The next day, ...Show more
The Turning by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Dirt Music comes an outstanding work of fiction that will resonate with readers everywhere.Here are turnings of all kinds changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours where people struggle against the terrible weight of t ...Show more
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good - near fine
A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/ Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handso ...Show more