Fireflies of Autumn And Other Tales of San Ginese by Moreno Giovannoni
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
San Ginese is a village where God lingers in people's minds and many dream of California, Argentina or Australia. Some leave only to return feeling disheartened, wishing they had never come back, some never leave and forever wish they had.The Fireflies of Autumn takes us to the olive groves and piazzas ...Show more
When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection by Entertainment Weekly * Cosmopolitan * Harper's Bazaar * Redbook * Southern Living * Good Housekeeping * PureWow * PopSugar * Bustle * Entertainment Tonight * Star Magazine * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Columbus Dispatch * Tampa Bay T ...Show more
On the Bright Side: The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
85-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. He dreams of escaping the confines of his care home and practicing hairpin turns on his mobility scooter. Inspired by his fellow members of the recently formed Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he vows to put down his Custard Cr ...Show more
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling, twice-Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a tale of transformation; a richly layered masterpiece' (Financial Times) A brilliant novel ' Philip RothImpossible to put down ' IndependentDazzling ' GuardianJules Epstein has vanished from the world. He l ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Pre-read / Used. Very Good condition. Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia. Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man?s discovery, in Vietnam ...Show more
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing histo ...Show more
Exploded View HB by Carrie Tiffany
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A dangerous man moves in with a mother and her two adolescent children. The man runs an unlicensed mechanic's workshop at the back of their property. The girl resists the man with silence, and finally with sabotage. She fights him at the place where she believes his heart lives - in the engine of the ca ...Show more
Invented Lives PB by Andrea Goldsmith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still ... It is the mid-1980s. In Australia, stay-at-home wives jostle with want-it-all feminists, while AIDS threatens the sexual freedom of everyone. On the other side of the world, the Soviet bloc is in turmoil. Mikhail Gorbachev ha ...Show more
The Golden Book by Kate Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
''Jessie had said they should go at midnight. It's the gods' time, she said, narrowing her eyes dramatically. Anything could happen.' It's the 1980s, and Ali and her best friend, Jessie, are on the cusp. In the simmering heat of summer, in their small coastal town, they are starting to chafe at the res ...Show more
Birds of a Feather by Tricia Stringer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When three women are thrown together by unusual circumstances, ruffled feelings are just the beginning. A wise, sharply observed celebration of the life-changing power of female friendships. Eve has been a partner in a Wallaby Bay fishing fleet as long as she can remember. Now they want her to sell - bu ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often' Guardian What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted ...Show more