The Reader: 20th Anniversary Edition by Bernhard Schlink
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
For fifteen-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years lat ...Show more
On The Bright Side by Hendrik Groen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The new diary from one of literature's most beloved octogenarians.On The Bright Side picks up where The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen left off, at the care home of the anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club where Hendrik and his friends are determined to enjoy their autumn years full of optimism. Written with h ...Show more
Summer by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Seasons Quartet | Reading Level: very good
Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. Your voice woke me up around eight this morning, it sounded unusually close, since, as I discovered upon opening my eyes, you ...Show more
Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
$17.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it. Jean's a grown woman with a h ...Show more
The Honourable Thief (Benedict Hitchens #1) by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Benedict Hitchens
'Achilles? Because...?' 'Obsession of mine. Half man, half god - and his own worst enemy. My kind of man.' He laughed. Istanbul, Turkey 1955 Benedict Hitchens, once a world-renowned archaeologist, is now a discredited - but still rather charming - shell of his former self. Once full of optimism and adve ...Show more
The Necessary Marriage by Elisa Lodato
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Jane is sixteen when she falls in love with her teacher. Leonard Campbell is everything she has ever wanted: handsome, intelligent and attentive. He singles Jane out, giving her novels to read and discuss over long walks and cosy dinners. It is only once married, tied down with two children in 1980s sub ...Show more
Cooktown by Andreas Heger
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's 2011 and in a remote fishing village in far north Queensland, ex special forces soldier Daniel Grey has just returned from a brutal tour of duty in Afghanistan. Unsure of what's next, he's sought out his old mentor and school rugby coach. He meets the coach's beautiful wife Maria, and their daugh ...Show more
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'An apposite and nuanced novel... Picoult writes about an emotive, controversial issue with unflinching precision.' Red **** The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice. Its very existence is controversial, and to the demonstrators who ba ...Show more
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, married to Ira and with two children. Her eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested one hot summer day. Maggie and Ira dr ...Show more
A Short Affair by Simon Oldfield
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Series: An Anthology
'A dazzling anthology uniting the written word with the visual' STEPHEN FRY A Short Affair is a vibrant anthology that combines the best of original short fiction with remarkable work by contemporary artists from the Royal Academy Schools. In this visually stunning collection from Pin Drop, the reno ...Show more
A Love Story for Bewildered Girls by Emma Morgan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Grace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure. But you'll love them all... Grace has what one might call a 'full and interesting life' which is code for not married and has no kids. Her life is the envy of her friends, but all this time she has been waiting in secret for love to hit he ...Show more
Room for a Stranger (C-format) by Melanie Cheng
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
By the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might b ...Show more