Dear Reader by Mary O'Connell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A fabulous, funny and heartbreaking love letter to Wuthering Heights and the books that make us who we are, Dear Reader is about finding your people - on the page and in the world.For Flannery Fields, the only respite from the mean girls at school is Miss Sweeney's English class. But when Miss Sweeney d ...Show more
Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and beso ...Show more
Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From a writer praised by Junot Diaz as 'the fire, in my opinion, and the light', Alexander Chee's mesmerizing novel The Queen of the Night follows one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned star. A 'wild opera of a novel', The Queen of the Night tells the story of Lilliet Berne, a ...Show more
You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
'I opened this book to a random page, read five lines - and finished it at three that morning. It's the voice that does it: edgy, conflicted, desperately urgent, the voice of a young man who's both too smart and (if you believe him) not quite smart enough for the inexorable spiral of events into which h ...Show more
This Water: Five Tales by Beverley Farmer
$26.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: STELLA LL 2018
This is likely to be the last work by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing, in her exploration of feminine concerns, and her use of different literary forms - novel, short story, poetry, essay, journal, myth and fairy tale. This Water is a collection ...Show more
Everybody's Son: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores issues of race, class, privilege, and power and asks us to consider uncomfortable moral questions in this probing, ambitious, emotionally wrenching novel of two families--one black, one white.Duri ...Show more
Kite Runner (Special Gift Edition) by Khaled Hosseini
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste ...Show more
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the author of the acclaimed Wolf in White Van comes a horror-infused thriller set in a tiny Midwestern town. Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's the 1990s, pre-DVD, and the work is predictable and familiar; he likes his boss, Sarah Jane, and it gets him out of the house, ...Show more
Half Wild by Pip Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papa takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo - life gallops on th ...Show more
Our Young Man by Edmund White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'Has everyone always been in love with you? Of course they have, who am I kidding? What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships' New York City in the eighties, and at its decadent heart is Guy. The darling of Fire Isl ...Show more
Grief Cottage: A Novel by Gail Godwin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin. After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a ...Show more
Bella Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1818-1820 (#12 Poldark ) by Winston Graham
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark
Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine Warleggan, whose existence keeps open the old wounds of the feud between Ross and George; of Bella, the Poldark's youngest daughter, whose precocious talent as a singer is encouraged by her old flame, Christopher Havergal, ...Show more