The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For fans of The Night Circus, comes a sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who discovers that his family labours under a terrible curse. Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Island Sound. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious book connected to his family. The book te ...Show more
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. He is a good man and he is happy. But one day, he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that, for no apparent reason, fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped brea ...Show more
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Sometimes you have to travel to the farthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it...A panoramic historical epic and an unforgettable love story from the author of The Tenderness of Wolves, for fans of Kristin Hannah, Sarah Perry, and Barbara Kingsolver A whaler's daughter, Flora Mack ...Show more
Wild Island by Jennifer Livett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: good
Captain Charles O'Hara Booth, Commandant of Port Arthur Penal Settlement in Van Diemen's Land, fears his life will change when Sir John Franklin arrives to replace Colonel Arthur as Governor. As Franklin and his wife Jane discover, the colony is run by a clique of Arthur's former army officers, who have ...Show more
This Was a Man (Clifton Chronicles #7) by Jeffrey Archer
$42.99 AUD
Category: Thriller | Series: The Clifton Chronicles
This Was a Man is the captivating final instalment of the Clifton Chronicles, a series of seven novels that has topped the bestseller lists around the world, and enhanced Jeffrey Archer's reputation as a master storyteller. This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and wh ...Show more
London Lies Beneath by Stella Duffy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In August 1912, three friends set out on an adventure. Two of them come home. Tom, Jimmy and Itzhak have grown up together in the crowded slums of Walworth. They are used to narrow streets, the bustle of East Lane market, extended families weaving in and out of each other's lives. All three boys are exp ...Show more
The Ancestor Game: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1993 - HB by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'The Ancestor Game is like an elaborate house of many floors and wings and hidden rooms, interconnecting in surprising ways and inhabited by a richly divergent family of characters.' - Midwest Book Review..Steven Muir, Gertrude Speiss and Lang Tzu experience a dislocation, an ambivalence, at living in E ...Show more
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of heroin, they're in t ...Show more
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, ...Show more
The Light on the Water by Olga Lorenzo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Recently divorced and trying to make sense of her new life, Anne takes her daughter Aida on an overnight bushwalk in the moody wilderness of Wilsons Promontory. In a split second, Aida disappears and a frantic Anne scrambles for help. Some of the emergency trackers who search for Aida already doubt Anne ...Show more
Do You Love Me or What? by Sue Woolfe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
A brilliant, critically acclaimed collection of short stories about love and what it means to be loved, by the bestselling, award-winning author of Leaning Towards Infinity, Painted Woman and The Secret Cure 'Elegant and satisfying, and so percipient of human yearning and loss.' Tom Keneally Written i ...Show more
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Alexandra Boyd has travelled to Bulgaria hoping to salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. But a luggage mix-up soon after she arrives finds her holding an urn filled with human ashes.As Alexandra sets out to return the precious item to its owners she finds ever more obstacles in her p ...Show more