The Bone People by Keri Hulme
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
The Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerwin has given up everything but drinking, thinking and fishing, but the arrival of the boy Simon, and later on, of his Maori fo ...Show more
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The heartbreaking follow-up to the million copy bestseller, The Beekeeper of Aleppo. 'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class.' - Jodi Picoult 'Will break your heart and open your eyes' - Heather Morris, author of The Ta ...Show more
Pomegranate & Fig by Zaheda Ghani
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely enclosed behind her desk at school. They come to start a conversation that is both taboo and a normal part of life. A small, intimate group . . . precious stones decorate their necks and fingers, the sond, embroidery, on their ...Show more
Indigo Storm by Fleur McDonald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When Ashleigh decides to flee her controlling husband, Dominic, she knows he'll hunt her down. The only way to escape is to disappear and reinvent herself...Changing her name to Eliza and driving by night, she is drawn to the tiny rural town of Blinman. There she begins the long road to healing and rega ...Show more
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Now a STARZ® Original Series produced by Fremantle Media North America starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, and Pablo Schreiber. Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of wh ...Show more
Bridget Crack by Rachel Leary
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: Adult
Van Diemen's Land, 1826. A desperate convict flees into the wilderness. But the land that hides her will show her no mercy. A brilliant literary debut from a writer of rare talent.
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two-time Man Booker Shortlisted Author Costa Award Winner Thomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the ...Show more
The Street Sweeper by PERLMAN, ELLIOT
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.' - The Times (UK)How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on th ...Show more
Bruny by Heather Rose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcomin ...Show more
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent pa ...Show more
The Viennese Girl by Jenny Lecoat
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Inspired by the true story of a young Jewish girl - Hedy Bercu - who fled to Jersey from Vienna only to find herself trapped on the island during the German occupation. In June 1940, the horror-struck inhabitants of Jersey watch as the German army unopposed takes possession of their island. Now only a ...Show more
A Strange Country by Muriel Barbery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Where did you come from?' he asked. 'From the bridge,' Petrus answered. 'The bridge that links our world to yours.' Then, after a silence: 'It is invisible to you.' During the longest war humankind has endured, two young Spanish officers abandon their post to follow the charismatic Petrus across a bri ...Show more