Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Mouth-watering recipes inside!As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work; mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate; made entirely by hand, it is sold to the grandes dames of Paris.It's a huge shift from ...Show more
The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A moving and deeply felt homage to the power of nature and art by one of the world's most beloved authors. Do two young girls have the power to change the world? Maria, raised by powerful older women, lives in a remote village in Burgundy, where she discovers her gift of clairvoyance, of healing and of ...Show more
On Love by Charles Bukowski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and ...Show more
Work Like Any Other (C-format) by Virginia Reeves
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Placing itself perfectly alongside acclaimed work by Philipp Meyer, Jane Smiley and J M Coetzee, this debut novel charts the story of Roscoe T Martin in rural Alabama in the 1920s. Roscoe has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. It becomes his t ...Show more
Beside Myself by Ann Morgan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins -- two peas in a pod, everyone says. But the girls know it isn't true: Helen is the leader and Ellie the follower. Until they decide to swap places -- just for fun, and just for one day -- and Ellie refuses to switch back.
Volcano Street by David Rain
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"What would Germaine do?' This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the twists and turns that life brings. Such as the sectioning of their mother Karen Jane. Marlo puts her faith in her hero, Germaine Greer, and twelve-year-old Skip trusts her clever big sis ...Show more
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young man sailing f ...Show more
Dinner at Rose's by Danielle Hawkins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In the wake of an unfortunate best-friend-and-boyfriend-caught-having-sex-in-a-chair incident, Jo Donnelly flees her civilised city life to take up a temporary job at the physiotherapy clinic in her small home town. Jo is ineptly assisted at work by a receptionist who divides her time between nail care ...Show more
The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Starting life in the gutter, Jean-Marie d'Aumout rises through the ranks of eighteenth-century French society propelled by his wits and an obsession with finding the perfect taste. But beyond the palace walls, revolution is in the air and the country is clamouring with a hunger of a different kind.
Mothering Sunday - A Romance by Graham Swift
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothe ...Show more
Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A New York Times Notable Book - An Entertainment Weekly "Must List" Pick - "Prepare to be dazzled."--Paula McLain - "Quite simply astonishing."--Sarah Blake What if Virginia Woolf's sister had kept a diary? For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a spellbinding new story of the inseparable bon ...Show more
The Natashas by Yelena Moskovich
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Beatrice, a solitary young jazz singer from a genteel Parisian suburb, meets a mysterious woman named Polina. Polina visits her at night and whispers in her ear: 'There are people who leave their bodies and their bodies go on living without them. These people are named Natasha.' Cesar, a lonely Mexican ...Show more