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
Mothers Grimm by Danielle Wood
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
You make deals with God. You make deals with the Devil. You're not fussy. But as a wise man once said: It's the saying you don't care what you get what gets you jiggered. So you say it, and you're jiggered, but what you give birth to is a hedgehog. It's prickly and its cry is a noise so terrible that yo ...Show more
Euphoria by Lily King
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance enc ...Show more
Reluctantly Charmed by Ellie O'Neill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Kate McDaid is listing her new-year's resolutions hoping to kick-start her rather stagnant love life and career when she gets some very strange news. To her surprise, she is the sole benefactor of a great great-great-great aunt and self-proclaimed witch also called Kate McDaid, who died over 130 years a ...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 Food of Love Cookery School by Nicky Pellegrino
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Condition: **NEW** In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in their lives. Moll is a foodie and an exhausted working mum on the holiday of a lifetime. Tricia, a top London lawyer is taking a break from the demands of her job and her family. ...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
Savage Magic by Lloyd Shepherd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
It's 1814 and the streets of London's Covent Garden are at the centre of a dark trade, enticing rich and poor alike with a cocktail of gin and beer and sex. Behind their own fashionable private doors in the surrounding parishes a group of aristocratic young men are found murdered, all of them wearing th ...Show more
Rooms by Lauren Oliver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family-bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna-have arrived for their inheritance. But the Walkers are not alone. Prim ...Show more
Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin
$21.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Arthur wakes to a grey November dawn. He lies in the dark of the bedroom he shares with his wife waiting for his dream to fade. He is fifty-six, he loves his wife and the unspoken rhythms of married life. He has a grown son, O'Neil, and a daughter, Kay, and he has a secret. His wife, Miriam, has a secre ...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