The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Gina Davies, aka The Doll, is a 26-year-old pole dancer at the Chairman's Lounge in Sydney's Kings Cross. She's a flawed woman, racist, obsessed with money, who finds her life suddenly being destroyed by the things she has up until that moment most firmly believed in.The evening of the Mardi Gras, 2007. ...Show more
BEING DEAD by CRACE JIM
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'An extraordinarily moving love story' Observer A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon they m ...Show more
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Weschler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of their intense and trouble relationship, of the women in the ...Show more
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Beginning with a story about a second-rate film actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, this is a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.
Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the day Cobb and Mary meet kayaking on Maine's Allagash River and fall in love, the two approach life with the same sense of adventure they use to conquer the river's treacherous rapids. But rivers do not let go so easily, and neither does their love. So when Mary's life takes a cruel turn, she vow ...Show more
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary
An enchanting tale of family, friends and renewal, with a taste of something truly magical. It has been seven years since Marjan Aminpour fled Iran with her younger sisters Bahar and Layla. In a sleepy Irish town beneath the holy mountain Croagh Patrick she hopes they might finally find a home. The sist ...Show more
Brida by Paulo Coelho
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary
This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, and has taken courses in astrology, tarot, and numerology, but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach her ab ...Show more
Drink, Play, F@#k by Andrew Gottlieb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
After his wife leaves him, Bob Sullivan sets off to explore the world, experience a meaningful connection with the divine, and rediscover his passion. His travels lead him from his former marital home in New York City, to Ireland, the drinking capital of the world, on to the glitz, neon, 24-hour town th ...Show more
After America by John Birmingham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headqu ...Show more
The Bourne Betrayal (Bourne #5) by Eric Van Lustbader
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Jason Bourne
Re-enter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium. Once safely back in A ...Show more
Sorry by Gail Jones
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
This is a story that can only be told in a whisper...In the remote outback of North-west Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her childhood is far from ordinary; a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and ...Show more
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
* Reissued in a new look is this richly imagined historical novel that combines mystery, history, politics and passion in a story of gripping power, from the author of SACRED HEARTS