The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The compelling and heartrending new novel from the award-winning author of Norwegian By Night and How To Find Your Way In The Dark We will lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill, and sin our way to Napoli. We will trust no one but each other, and we will remember that in this place, at this time, there is no w ...Show more
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep' NEW YORK TIMES 'Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian 'Begs to be read' Spectator 'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Pa ...Show more
Plexus (#2) by Henry Miller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work. Exploring one mans desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry Miller's scandalous semi-autobiographical trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion. It finds him in the midst of his stor ...Show more
Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam âe" a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophiaâe(tm)s husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his beautiful young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the ...Show more
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughterâe(tm)s wedding, June Reidâe(tm)s house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family âe" her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hun ...Show more
Ridge Hill (Gibson Family #3) by Anna Jacobs
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Gibson Saga Ser.
Book two in the heartwarming Lancashire-based Gibson series by beloved saga author Anna Jacobs. It's 1848 and preparations are underway for Annie Gibson's wedding to Bilsden's wealthy millwoner, Frederick Hallam. But not everyone is as pleased as they are. Frederick's daughter, Beatrice, is horrified at ...Show more
Mexico: New Voices, Old Traditions: Part 20 by Various Authors
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
To celebrate the Year of Mexico in the UK and the Year of the UK inMexico in 2015, Hay Festival, the British Council and Conacultahave joined forces to bring twenty young Mexican writers under the age offorty, paired with twenty British translators, to an international readership. Broken families, a man ...Show more
Floodtide by Judy Nunn
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Floodtide is a brilliant observation of turbulent times in the mighty 'Iron Ore State' - Western Australia. The novel traces the fortunes of four men and four families over four memorable decades: The prosperous post-war 1950s when childhood is idyllic and carefree in the small, peaceful city of Perth.. ...Show more
Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
If you were looking for the perfect escape, where would you go? This is the heartwarming story of one man who has given up hope and the village that gives it back to him. When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired vil ...Show more
The Light at the End of the Day by Eleanor Wasserberg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A family scattered. Lovers torn apart. A painting that unites them all. When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow's grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess or ...Show more
The Institute by Stephen King
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. "This is King at his best" (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch). In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luk ...Show more
The Confession by Jessie Burton
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Dazzlingly good, utterly engrossing . . . Without doubt one of the best novels of recent years' - Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail The sensational Sunday Times bestseller from Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Hea ...Show more