The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
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Category: Contemporary
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives a ...Show more
And the Ass Saw the Angel: Penguin Street Art by Nick Cave
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Street Art
Nick Cave's And The Ass Saw the Angel - part of the limited edition Penguin Street Art series: timeless writing, enduring design. Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest ...Show more
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
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Category: Contemporary
Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopat ...Show more
Counselor by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Contemporary
This is the first original screenplay by the great American novelist Cormac McCarthy. In early 2012 it was announced that Cormac McCarthy had written his first original screenplay - news which provoked huge excitement, a swift deal and the appointment of Ridley Scott to direct. But this is no ordinary s ...Show more
The Signature Of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Sir Joseph Banks's Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Captain Cook's HMS R ...Show more
Pig's Foot: A Novel by Carlos Acosta
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Category: Contemporary
Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet of wooden shacks and red earth deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales - some taller than others - of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love and identity, spanning four generations. One day Oscar Mandinga wakes to ...Show more
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse?s much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate. Bertie Wooster, recently returned from a very pleasurable soujourn in Cannes, finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. Bert ...Show more
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
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Category: Contemporary
San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins thei ...Show more
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage War
The Dark Room tells the stories of three ordinary Germans: Helmut, a young photographer in Berlin in the 1930s who uses his craft to express his patriotic fervour; Lore, a twelve-year-old girl who, in 1945, guides her young siblings across a devastated Germany after her Nazi parents are seized by the Al ...Show more
The Lost Child by Suzanne McCourt
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Category: Contemporary
From the headland, we look across to the lighthouse on Seal Island where Mr Hammett has to take the gas bottle to keep the light flashing at night. Aunt Cele says there is no land between us and the bottom of the world where everything is white ice and there are penguins as big as men, but I know this a ...Show more
Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant
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Category: Historical
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy, he is defined not just by his wealth, charisma and power, but by his blood: a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If he ...Show more
A Very British Coup by Chris Mullin
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Category: Contemporary
Former steel worker Harry Perkins, has, against all the odds, led the Labour Party to a stunning victory at the general election. His manifesto includes the removal of American bases, public control of finance, and the dismantling of the newspaper monopolies. The Establishment is appalled by the prospec ...Show more