The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
'If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do.'..Arky Swann is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has made him promise to keep a terrible secret. One day he finds his way ...Show more
Promising Young Women by Caroline O'Donoghue
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS - NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR'So brilliant ... I highly recommend it' Dolly Alderton 'I loved it. The writing is whipsmart and so witty' Marian Keyes Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes to ...Show more
Swift River by Essie Chambers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'I love a novel this much maybe just once or twice a year.' - Curtis Sittenfeld, author of RODHAM and ROMANTIC COMEDY'Told with warmth and humor by a memorable, irrepressible heroine.' - Rumaan Alam, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHINDWhat if the price of moving forward is losing the only family you've eve ...Show more
The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson by Karen Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre. We are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon then an anomaly, who gravitated to the stage - a place whe ...Show more
Other Houses by Paddy O'Reilly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lily works as a cleaner. She moves through houses in inner-city Melbourne, unseen, scrubbing away the daily residue of other people's privilege. Her partner Janks works the line in a local food factory. With every pay check they inch further away from their former world of poverty and addiction.Lily and ...Show more
Leviathan by Paul Auster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin .The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. Wh ...Show more
Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Sunny,its former proprietor and the new owner of the Screaming Peacock Vineyard in the Pacific Northwest. But can she handle the challenges of life on her own?Yazmina,the young mother who now runs the cafe, until a terrifying event strikes at the heart of her family, and business . . .LaylaandKat, two A ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: David Unaipon Award Winners Ser.
When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity.Her journey ...Show more
An Island by Karen Jennings
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiled himself from the known world only to find himself called to the service of others, themselves exiled from the world by cruelty and circumstance. It is on these grounds that this writer deftly construct ...Show more
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Virago V S. | Reading Level: very good
Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - ...Show more
The Fiery Cross (#5 Outlander) by Diana Gabaldon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Outlander Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. 1771- the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other.Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a man of honour, a man of worth. Exiled from ...Show more