Mystery of Riddle Gully by Jen Banyard
$14.95 AUD
Category: Junior Readers
Pollo di Nozi, reporter-in-training, has a nose for news. Strange things are happening in Riddle Gully and Pollo smells a major scoop. With Shorn Connery, her sheepish sidekick, Pollo is determined to track down the Grafitti Kid. But is Will, the new boy in town, conspiring with the pushy mayor and a st ...Show more
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trys ...Show more
The Followers by Rebecca Wait
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
On the bleak, windswept moors of northern England, a small religious cult has cut itself off from society, believing they have found meaning in a purposeless world. Led by their prophet Nathaniel, they eagerly await the end times. But when the prophet brings in a new recruit, Stephanie, along with her r ...Show more
Now and Again by Charlotte Rogan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For Maggie Rayburn, wife, mother and secretary at a munitions plant, life is pleasant, predictable and secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, turning her world upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good - and a new-found taste for excitemen ...Show more
Everything I Don't Remember by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A young man called Samuel dies, but was it an accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. Through conversations with friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant bureaucrat, the loyal friend, t ...Show more
Baby Doll by Hollie Overton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
You've been held captive in one room, mentally and physically abused every day, since you were sixteen years old. Then, one night, you realize your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked. For the first time in eight years, you're free. This is about what happens next...Lily knows that she must b ...Show more
Joe Speedboat by Tommy Wieringa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When Frankie Hermans emerges from a coma after 200 days, he knows his life is never going to be the same again. For a start, he can't talk, he can't walk and it's a struggle even to wield a pen. And then there's Joe Speedboat - a boy who arrived in the sleepy village of Lomark like a blazing comet and w ...Show more
Angel Puss by Colleen McCullough
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'I wouldn't walk on coals of fire for any man, but Flo? She's my angel puss. My child.' It's 1960, and twenty-one-year-old Harriet ignores her father's warning that 'only fools, Bohemians and tarts live at Kings Cross', and moves into Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz's rooming house. There she learns about men, ...Show more
Dunedin by Shena Mackay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: VMC
New Zealand, 1909. After weeks at sea the new minister, Jack Mackenzie, arrives from Scotland with his unhappy wife and children in tow. A keen naturalist, he is more enthralled by the botanical - and carnal - delights of Dunedin than in the wellbeing of his flock. In London, eighty years later, Jack Ma ...Show more
The Orchard on Fire by Mackay, Shena
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles. Ruby and I stared at it and each other . . . dark-windowed, out of place in a thicket of thorns, it was the perfect hide-out, house, the camp of our dreams' ...Show more
Waterland: Picador Classic by Graham Swift
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by John BurnsideShortlisted for the 1983 Booker prize, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize.Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the story-telling animal.Tom Crick is a pa ...Show more