Boyhood Island (#3 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: My Struggle | Reading Level: very good
'Rare and Ruthless... Perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times' Guardian Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the ca ...Show more
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (US Ed) by Muriel Barbery
$28.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renee, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantank ...Show more
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'ONE OF THE FICTION HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DECADE' Judy Finnigan, Richard and Judy Book Club Featured in the Richard and Judy Book Club, the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club Winner of the John W. Campbell Award Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award SOME STORIES CANNOT BE TOLD IN JUST ...Show more
The Forever Girl : A Novel by Alexander McCall Smith
$26.99 AUD
Category: Popular
At the age of four Clover chooses her own name. Aged six, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: at the same time that Clover's mother finds she's fallen out of love with her husband, she realises that J ...Show more
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends ...Show more
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world--an ...Show more
The People in the Photo by Hélène Gestern; Emily Boyce (Translator); Ros Schwartz (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Every note of the characters' correspondence rings true."--Le Nouvel Observateur "A page-turning novel with a skilfully woven plot."--Page des Libraires "Rich in deftly turned prose and subtle character study."--Sud-Ouest "A wonderful book about the archaeology of memory."--Le Magazine Littéraire "Ele ...Show more
The Empty Throne (The Last Kingdom #8) by Bernard Cornwell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Warrior Chronicles
The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series The Warrior Chronicles, on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. The forces of Wessex and Mercia have united against the Danes, but instability and the threat of Viking raids still hang heavy over Bri ...Show more
Dark Places: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and such is the nature of this intractable universe that the only thing you can start with is yourself. Dark Places, a companion novel to Lilian’s Story, is ...Show more
Nightingale by Fiona McIntosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Love comes out of nowhere for most of us, when we least expect it ...this young man has flown into your heart and made a nest.' Amidst the carnage of Gallipoli, British nurse Claire Nightingale meets Australian Light Horseman Jamie Wren. Despite all odds, they fall deeply in love. Their flame burns bri ...Show more
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A little boy was found dead in a children's playground...Daniel Hunter has spent years defending lost causes as a solicitor in London. But his life changes when he is introduced to Sebastian, an eleven-year-old accused of murdering an innocent young boy. As he plunges into the muddy depths of Sebastian' ...Show more
The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Pre-read / Used. Good condition From the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies and new novel Nine Perfect Strangers. "Love is not black and white ... fascinating and compassionate fiction" Daily TelegraphAs a hypnotherapist, Ellen O'Farrell is fascinated by ...Show more