A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shortlisted - Booker Prize 2021 From a prize winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality. It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpect ...Show more
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
What price do we pay for freedom? In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they're soon discovered by the land's owner, G ...Show more
The Last Checkmate by Gabriella Saab
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Readers of Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen's Gambit won't want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to brin ...Show more
The Prince of the Skies (TPB) by Antonio Iturbe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling author of The Librarian of Auschwitz, Antonio Iturbe, comes a captivating historical novel based on a true story - the extraordinary life and mysterious death of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince. Writer. Romantic. Pilot. Hero. All Antoine de Saint Exupery wants ...Show more
7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: near fine
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In the breathtaking beauty of the Galapagos Islands, Diana will learn who she really is, and the person she wants to become, in Jodi's deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and mo ...Show more
Gain by Richard Powers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and Bewilderment, a visionary novel about the failings of the American dream.'It's not possible for powers to write an uninteresting book' Margaret AtwoodIn Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges in ...Show more
The Hush by Sara Foster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Everything can change in a heartbeat ... The pulse-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of You Don't Know Me'The novel everyone will be talking about' Natasha Lester Lainey's friend Ellis is missing. And she's not the only one. In the six months since the first case of a terrifying new epid ...Show more
The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ray's life is not going to plan. He's just cheated on his heavily pregnant wife. He secretly despises all of his friends. His career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal and he spends his afternoons churning out listicles in his pants. But Ray is about to learn that no matter how low you sink, thing ...Show more
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Smart, emotional, intriguing and compelling - I loved it!' JILL MANSELL Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan has been in possession of her meticulously crafted 5-year plan since she understood the concept. On the day that she nails the most important job interview of her career and gets engaged to the perfect ...Show more
Rachel's Holiday: British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022 by Marian Keyes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Imagine you're Rachel. Living in glamorous New York City, spending your nights at fabulous parties and heading home in the small hours to your sexy boyfriend Luke. Then your sensible older sister shows up. Next thing you know, you're being escorted back to your parents, who insist on checking you in ...Show more
Anthem by Noah Hawley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: very good
The first big novel of 2022: an epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets out on a quest to save one innocent life - and might end up saving us all. The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse ...Show more