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Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist and pessimist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a ...Show more
Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It's a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. We choose to breathe, don't we?Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her p ...Show more
Mary Ann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Tales of the City
Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now, a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gay ga ...Show more
Autumn Laing by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her pearly thighs and her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and beautiful wife, Edith, and their unborn child. Fifty-three years later, cantanker ...Show more
The Last Dingo Summer (Matilda Saga #8) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: The Matilda Saga
A killer lurks behind the kindness of the Gibber's Creek community. Under the burnt timber of the church, the police have found the body of Merv Ignatious, the man who so viciously attacked Jed Kelly when she was fifteen, and tried to kill her and her unborn child in last year's bushfire. And also in th ...Show more
The Twelve (The Passage #2) by Justin Cronin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Horror & Ghost stories | Series: The\Passage Trilogy | Reading Level: General Adult
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The end of the world was only the beginning. In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity ...Show more
A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies) | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Around you the world is swirling - you pass through a submerged town; the bakery, a wheelbarrow, a bike floating on its side on the main street, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water. In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank a couple of miles fr ...Show more
Inferno (Robert Langdon #4) by Dan Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Robert Langdon Ser.
*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES*Florence- Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will propel him a ...Show more
The Shell Collector (UK PB) by Anthony Doerr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
The showstopping debut from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inn ...Show more
Beware of Dogs by Elizabeth Flann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
She's isolated. Trapped. Hunted. An almost unbearably tense Australian survival thriller. Not much daylight left now. So begins the field diary of Alix Verhoeven, whose impulsive acceptance of an offer to spend Easter on a remote island has turned into a terrifying ordeal. Hiding in a tiny cave, she car ...Show more
The Light Between Oceans (Film Tie-In) by M. L. Stedman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
This months-long New York Times bestseller is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page," (O, The Oprah Magazine). AFTER FOUR HARROWING YEARS ON THE WESTERN Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on J ...Show more
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura; Eric Selland (Translator)
$18.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This young man's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he is unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for ma ...Show more