The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain; Gallic Books Staff (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This prize-winning French bestseller is a charming fable about the power of a hat that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through French life during the Mitterrand years. Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois M ...Show more
The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story by Matt Bondurant
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant's grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County in the World is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition a ...Show more
Dawn on a Distant Shore by Sara Donati
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
In this long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Into the Wilderness, award-winning storyteller Sara Donati once again effortlessly blends fact and fiction into an epic tale of adventure and romance. Into the Wilderness was hailed by bestselling author Diana Gabaldon as 'one of those rare stories that let ...Show more
The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. So far, so simple. Now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, ...Show more
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
One Sunday in 1988, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts learns that his mother has been the victim of a brutal attack by a man on their North Dakota reservation. Joe's mother is traumatized and afraid. She takes to her bed, and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police; meanwhile his father, a tribal ju ...Show more
The Secret of Ella and Micha by Jessica Sorensen
$16.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Ella and Micha #2
The girl he thinks he loves needs to disappear. I don't want tonight to be irreversible, so I pull away, breathing him in one last time. Ella and Micha have been best friends since childhood, until one tragic night shatters their relationship and Ella decides to leave everything behind to start a new li ...Show more
Black Roses by Jane Thynne
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Berlin, 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe as Hitler comes to power. Clara Vine, an attractive young Anglo-German actress, arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting, she is unwillingly drawn into a circle of Nazi wives, among them Magda Goebbels, Anneliese vo ...Show more
Flora by Gail Godwin
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II.At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely ima ...Show more
Trimalchio: an Early Version of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$39.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who had the novel set in type and the g ...Show more
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogota billiard hall and gr ...Show more
Lost Luggage by Jordi Punti
$27.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristofol are four brothers - sons of the same father and four very different mothers, yet none of them knows of the others' existence. They live in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Barcelona. Their father, Gabriel Delacruz - a truck driver - abandoned them when ...Show more
Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts by Lucy Dillon
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
When the abandoned strays from a local dogs' home are matched with brand new owners, it turns out it might not just be the dogs who need rescuing. Rachel's aunt has left her a house, a Border Collie and, despite knowing nothing about dogs, a crowded kennels. But since her life has collapsed she's not su ...Show more