Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family--a wife and two kids--the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength. Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second ...Show more
Echolalia by Briohny Doyle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
What could drive a mother to do the unthinkable? Before- Emma Cormac married into a perfect life but now she's barely coping. Inside a brand new, palatial home, her three young children need more than she can give. Clem, a wilful four year old, is intent on mimicking her grandmother; the formidable matr ...Show more
Island Reich by Jack Grimwood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
July 1940. As Britain braces itself for invasion, ex-Tommy and safecracker Bill O'Hagan finds himself forced to serve his country once more. A web of Nazi trickery threatens to ensnare the Duke of Windsor, who has fled to Portugal with Wallis Simpson at his side. His fate, and the fate of Britain, rest ...Show more
Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
'As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...' At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top sell ...Show more
Songs In Ursa Major by Emma Brodie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
Behind every greatest hit, is an even greater love story. Set against the heady haze of the 70s and alive with music, sex and sun-soaked hedonism, SONGS IN URSA MAJOR is an unforgettable debut and the soundtrack to a love story like no other. ‘Emma Brodie perfectly channels the languorous romance of the ...Show more
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner Costa Novel Award 2021 Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. Inside its walls they make music, in its ...Show more
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A quirky, funny, deeply intelligent story of love, big dreams, starting up and feminist geekdom. Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, ...Show more
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following one family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla is to play Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feveris ...Show more
I Couldn't Love You More by Esther Freud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Rosaleen is young, beautiful and still a schoolgirl when, in the early Sixties, she meets the famous sculptor Felix Lehmann. Felix is Jewish, bohemian; Rosaleen, the tearaway middle daughter of Irish publicans. So their affair – running away to France to gorge on oysters, boozing and eating cakes in Soh ...Show more
Grace by Robert Drew
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Some relevant facts about Grace Malloy. Apart from being named after a 100 000-year-old skeleton, she was twenty-nine and for much of the past three years she'd been hiding from an erotomaniac. Physically and emotionally besieged, Grace attempts to claw back from her personal territory by abandoning her ...Show more
The Rabbits by Sophie Overett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From the winner of the Penguin Literary Prize. A multigenerational family story with a dose of magical realism. It is about family secrets, art, very mild superpowers, loneliness and the strange connections we make in the places we least expect. The disappearance of Bo Rabbit in 1984 left the Rabbit w ...Show more
The Quickening by Rhiannon Ward
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'If you like gothic mystery, buckle up! This atmospheric read has it all' Woman magazine'An historical novel dripping with menace'Shari Lapena, author of The End of Her***********England, 1925. Louisa Drew lost her husband in the First World War and her six-year-old twin sons in the Spanish Flu epidemic ...Show more