Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Love is a bygone idea, centuries-worn. There are things we can go without, and love is among them; bread and a warm hearth are not. In September 1870, a train leaves Manchester bound for London. On board is Lizzie Burns, a poor worker from the Irish slums, who is embarking on the journey that will chang ...Show more
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
'Our contemporary master Stewart O'Nan - the king of the quotidian - has changed his brush stroke and given us a picture of another American master, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the last years of his life. This is an amazing book, by one great writer about another, just an amazement.' --Elizabeth Strout, aut ...Show more
Book Of Speculation by Erika Swyler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a cliff that is slowly crumbling into the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a travelling carnival and seldo ...Show more
China Dolls by Lisa See
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: General Adult
It's 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco's Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives. All the girls have secrets. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, h ...Show more
Closing Down by Sally Abbott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
No matter how strange, difficult and absurd the world becomes, some things never change. The importance of home. Of love. Of kindness to strangers. Of memories and dreams. Australia's rural towns and communities are closing down, much of Australia is being sold to overseas interests, states and countrie ...Show more
Half Wild by Pip Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papa takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo - life gallops on th ...Show more
Shallow Breath by Sara Foster
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
How far would you go to save someone you love? Two years ago, Desi Priest made a horrific mistake and destroyed her family. Now, she is coming home to make amends: to her daughter Maya, who's nurturing her own dangerous plan; to her brother Jackson, who blames himself; and to her close friend Pete, who ...Show more
The Dinner (FTI) by Herman Koch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Paul Lohman and his wife Claire are going out to dinner with Paul's brother Serge, a charismatic and ambitious politician, and his wife Babette. Paul knows the evening will not be fun. The restaurant will be overpriced and pretentious, the head waiter will bore on about the organically certified free-ra ...Show more
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'She was looking at me as if she knew everything about me, as if she'd known me for years.' From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author Orhan Pamuk is The Red-Haired Woman, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, ...Show more
The Mountain Between Us (Film Tie-In) by Charles Martin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba From the author of Where the River Ends, comes this page-turning story of love and survival. On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, w ...Show more
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
NEW YORK TIMES100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly' GUARDIANBEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every glass of red wine, drives restlessly around the country and lives in an insalubrious tower block that h ...Show more