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
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
$9.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library EditionThe deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher . . . When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house the ...Show more
Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle
$9.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library edition As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Buil ...Show more
Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
In the middle of the 15th century, scribe Peter Schoeffer is dismayed to be instructed by his father to give up his beloved profession of illuminating texts in Paris. Instead he is to travel to Mainz in Germany to be apprenticed to Johann Gutenberg, an entrepreneur who has invented a new process for pro ...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
Frog by Yan Mo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Before the Cultural Revolution, narrator Tadpole's feisty Aunt Gugu is revered as an obstetrician in her home township in rural China. Renowned for her sure hands and uncanny ability to calm anxious mothers, Gugu speeds around town on her bicycle to usher thousands of babies into life. When famine lifts ...Show more
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Colm Toibin 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIAL Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, a dark and unsettling crime classic. Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Don't make me laugh. F ...Show more
The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Stella Sweeny is back in Dublin. After living the dream in New York for a year - touring her self-help book, appearing on talk shows all over the USA and living it up in her 10-room duplex on the Upper West Side - she's back to normality with a bang. And she's got writer's block. Stella wants a clean br ...Show more
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
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Category: Contemporary
'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to ...Show more
Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage. But Annabelle's most intriguing - and persistent - admirer, wealthy, powerful Simon Hunt, has made it clear that while he will introduce her to ...Show more
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. So she leaves Blackpool and her family behind, takes herself off to London, and gets a job behind the cosmetics counter of a Kensington department store, wh ...Show more
Bridie's Choice by Karly Lane
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A rollicking rural romantic yarn Bridie Farrell and Shaun Broderick come from opposite sides of the tracks. Unlike Bridie's family, who are perennial strugglers, the Brodericks are the wealthy owners of one of the most prestigious properties in the district. Still, all is not well in either family. Bri ...Show more