Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer th ...Show more
Day by Michael Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabe ...Show more
Medea by Rosie Hewlett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A dark and epic feminist retelling that boldly reclaims the myth of the most formidable and feared witch in Ancient Greece. Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented by her brother and father. All becau ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
Words From the Park: The Journal of the Vic Park Writers' Group
$15.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The River We Remember (PB) by William Kent Krueger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff ...Show more
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Naked Ambition by Robert Gott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'You're a politician, a public figure. What on earth were you thinking?' Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White - a painting she intends to enter in this year's Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Internationally bestselling author Christy Lefteri returns with a dazzling new novel, about one family struggling to recover from trauma, set against the backdrop of the forest fires of Greece. This morning, I met the man who started the fire. You see, he was the one who took it all away, all of life a ...Show more
New York City Glow (Graphic) by Rachel Coad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A snake, an octopus and the near death of Johnny Ramone. The almost true account of the 1977 New York City blackout.Set in the 1970s, the story's capstone is the 1977 New York City blackout.Ray the snake is a sad, lonely, middle aged insurance salesman from Midway Kentucky, looking for a better life. St ...Show more
Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest disco ...Show more