Silent Music by Jane Hawking
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: The\Immortal Souls Ser.
Growing up in London in the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth is an observant and thoughtful child who finds herself in a confusing and mysterious adult world. She seeks refuge in her memories of her idyllic stays with her grandparents in the picturesque East Anglian countryside - which provide co ...Show more
Noah's Ark by Barbara Trapido
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ali Bobrow is an other-worldly single parent with a fraught nine-year-old daughter, a malevolent 'ex' with a grabby new wife, and an underused artistic talent. A pushover when it comes to needy neighbours and uninvited children, she allows her house to be the local drop-in centre, until she collides wit ...Show more
The Medici Ascendancy (#1 Masters of Florence) by Matteo Strukul
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Medici Chronicles
Florence, 1429: Giovanni de Medici has transformed his family bank into an unprecedented economic force. But when Giovanni is mysteriously murdered, his sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo, are forced to face a range of enemies plotting to oust the Medici from power. Published to coincide with a major new TV serie ...Show more
Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of heroin, they're in t ...Show more
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, ...Show more
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Contemporaries | Reading Level: General Adult
When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is that the ...Show more
All Fall Down by Cassandra Austin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When a bridge in the small outback town of Mululuk mysteriously collapses, the town is cut off from the world, and its citizens from each other. As the locals try to work out why the bridge fell and what it will take to replace it, old rivalries, forgotten romances and primitive drives come to the fore. ...Show more
The Toymaker by Liam Pieper
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A person is defined by the secrets they keep. Adam Kulakov likes his life. He's on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he can reasonably ...Show more
The Unfortunate Victim by Greg Pyers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Otto Berliner Investigates
"Based on a true storya At midnight on 28 December 1864, in the Australian gold-mining town of Daylesford, young newly-wed Maggie Stuart lies dead in her own blood. Rumour and xenophobia drive speculation over the identity of her killer, and when a suspect is apprehended, police incompetence and defenc ...Show more
The Restorer by Michael Sala
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
After a year apart, Maryanne returns to her husband, Roy, bringing their eight-year-old son Daniel and teenage daughter Freya with her. The family move from Sydney to Newcastle, where Roy has bought a derelict house on the coast.As Roy painstakingly patches the holes in the floorboards and plasters over ...Show more
Mischling by Affinity Konar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental populati ...Show more
The Light on the Water by Olga Lorenzo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Recently divorced and trying to make sense of her new life, Anne takes her daughter Aida on an overnight bushwalk in the moody wilderness of Wilsons Promontory. In a split second, Aida disappears and a frantic Anne scrambles for help. Some of the emergency trackers who search for Aida already doubt Anne ...Show more