List of My Desires by Gregoire Delacourt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Money can buy you freedom. But what about happiness? When Jocelyne looks at herself in the mirror, she sees a middle-aged, married woman who runs a dressmaking shop in a small provincial French town and lives a very ordinary existence. But what happened to all those dreams she had when she was 17? Then ...Show more
Jeremy Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791 (#3 Poldark) by Winston Graham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Poldark Ser.
Cornwall 1790. Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. Accused of wrecking two ships, he is to stand trial at the Bodmin Assizes. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But there are enemies in plenty who would be happy to see Ross convicted, not ...Show more
Down the Hume by Peter Polites
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'He touched my face. When his hand went along my bruised top lip and my almost broken nose, I winced from the pain. His fist went into a deep denim pocket. Pulled out a Syrinapx bottle, twisted the cap off and handed me two light blue pills.' How did Bucky get here? A series of accidents. A tragic love ...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
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
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Shot through with spirit and hope, it's one hell of a book' Stylist, Books You Can't Miss in 2022 A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend is passionate about putting choice into women's hands. She brings the option of birth control to their doorsteps, and with it th ...Show more
Denizen: Winner of the Penguin Literary Prize by James McKenzie Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: Winner of the Penguin Literary Prize
A gothic thriller exploring rural Australia’s simultaneous celebration of harsh country and stoic people – a tension that forces its inhabitants to dangerous breaking points. On a remote property in western NSW, nine-year-old Parker fears that something is wrong with his brain. His desperate attempts to ...Show more
Marlo by Jay Carmichael
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The stunning new novel from the author of Ironbark.It's the 1950s in conservative Australia, and Christopher, a young gay man, moves to 'the City' to escape the repressive atmosphere of his tiny hometown. Once there, however, he finds that it is just as censorial and punitive, in its own way.Then Christ ...Show more
French Braid by Anne Tyler
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers. French Braid follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today.THE MAJOR NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST STORYTELLERS OF OUR TIMEA brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and fun ...Show more
In The Distance by Hernan Diaz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing West. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, re ...Show more
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A witty exploration of family, money, love and heartbreak. THE MUST-READ DEBUT OF 2023 This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan- one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connec ...Show more
The Bell of the World by Gregory Day
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
When a troubled Sarah Hutchinson returns to Australia from boarding school in England and time spent in Europe, she is sent to live with her eccentric Uncle Ferny on the family property, Ngangahook. With the sound of the ocean surrounding everything they do on the farm, Sarah and her uncle form an inspi ...Show more