The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen ...Show more
The Republic of Love by Carol Shields
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries gives us a love story for the ages: the tale of two polar opposites on a rocky road to romance He's a thrice-divorced late-night talk-show host. She's an unmarried folklorist obsessed with mermaids. He lives for the present. She lives in the past. ...Show more
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
Part memoir, part 'missive-from-the-middle', YES PLEASE is a hilarious collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, haikus and words-to-live-by drawn from the life and mind of acclaimed actress, writer and comedian Amy Poehler. YES PLEASE finds Amy riffing on sex, love, family, friendship and plastic surgery ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage War
A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, t ...Show more
Begone the Raggedy Witches (#1 Wild Magic Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Readers | Series: The Wild Magic Trilogy
"Ireland's answer to JK Rowling." Sunday Independent A middle-grade fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Frances Hardinge and Katherine Rundell. When witches kidnap Mup's dad, she must journey to their home to save him, and so begins a fantastical adventure of rhyming crows, talking cats and outlawed m ...Show more
The Binding by Bridget Collins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice ...Show more
Bro by Helen Chebatte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What happens when you mix teenage boys, a fight club and ethnic rivalries? You get war. Romeo Makhlouf knows the rules. Stick with your own kind. Don't dob on your mates or even on your enemies. Respect the family. But even unwritten rules are made for breaking.
Flex Feathers (#7 Real Pigeons) by Andrew McDonald
$16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Readers | Series: Real Pigeons
Ever wonder why pigeons always act so weird? It's because they're out there chasing the bad guys and saving your butts! The REAL PIGEONS use PIGEON POWERS to fight crime, solve mysteries and help creatures in the city. But when CONCRETE starts mysteriously MELTING in the city, a FEATHER-SNATCHER goes ...Show more
Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Teen
Remember daughter, the world is a lot bigger than anyone knows. There are things that science may never explain. Maybe some things that shouldn't be explained. Stacey and Laney are twins - mirror images of each other - and yet they're as different as the sun and moon. Stacey works hard at school, determ ...Show more
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Ki ...Show more
The Power by Naomi Alderman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION** What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ...Show more