The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Late one summer evening, Wilberforce - rich, young, and work-obsessed - makes a detour on his way home to the vast undercroft of Caerlyon Hall, and the domain of Francis Black, a place where wine, hospitality and affection flow freely. Through Francis, Wilberforce is initiated into a life rich in the pr ...Show more
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary | Reading Level: good
As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who bel ...Show more
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a sh ...Show more
The Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An irresistible story that takes readers right into the lives of twelve different women, each with varied pasts and secrets.
Equator: A Novel by Wayne Ashton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
1947. Carlos slips over the orphanage wall in search of the village girl who has captured his heart. From that moment, his is a life at sea, a life that moves across the globe and across generations, lived on the turning tides of love affairs, friendships and enmities. Equator is a glorious and intricat ...Show more
Hell's Corner by David Baldacci
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Camel Club Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Camel Club returns in the breathtaking follow up to "Divine Justice" from the number one international bestselling author. On the night of the State Dinner honouring the British Prime Minister, Oliver Stone witnesses an explosion as the motorcade leaves the White House. A bomb has been detonated in ...Show more
The Five Greatest Warriors (Jack West Junior #3) by Matthew Reilly
$17.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Jack West Junior | Reading Level: good
IT BEGAN WITH SIX STONES. Jack West Jr and his loyal team are in desperate disarray: they've been separated, their mission is in tatters, and Jack was last seen plummeting down a fathomless abyss. IT FINISHES HERE. After surviving his deadly fall, Jack must now race against his many enemies to locate an ...Show more
Mefisto by John Banville
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Fable, intellectual thriller, Gothic extravaganza, symbolist conundrum ...a true work of art' - "Sunday Independent". Is there a numerical solution to the quest for the meaning of life? A brilliant reworking of the classic Dr Faustus theme, "Mefisto" focuses on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, w ...Show more
The Thief of Time by John Boyne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother's brutal murder. H ...Show more
The Indigo Sky by Alison Booth
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In 1957, when piano teacher Ilona Talivaldis arrived in the sleepy little town of Jingera, she was mocked as the 'reffo from Latvia'. Now, just four years on, she and her fourteen-year-old daughter Zidra are at the heart of the community. But when Ilona becomes involved in the plights of two very differ ...Show more
13 Rue Therese by Elena Mauli Shapiro
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An American in Paris falls in love with two women, one of whom he can only only imagine, in this wonderful debut. As he settles into his new office in Paris, American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of century-old artifacts. The pictures, letters and objects in the box relate to the life o ...Show more