Academy Street by Mary Costello
$27.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Academy Street is the heart-breaking and evocative story of one woman's life spanning six decades. Tess's childhood in 1940's rural Ireland is defined by the sudden death of her mother. Later, in New York, she encounters the ferocious power and calamity of love, and the effects of catastrophic fate. The ...Show more
Tiger Milk by Stephanie de Velasco
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
Nini and Jameelah are fourteen. They don't want to grow up. But they do want to lose their virginity. As the long summer holidays stretch out before them, Berlin becomes their playground. The days all merge into one: swimming, smoking, shoplifting, and hanging out with friends from their estate. At nigh ...Show more
Nagasaki (PB) by Eric Faye
$16.99 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the Académie française Grand Prix Award. "One of those brief and understated novels that stay with the reader for a very long time."--L'Express "Speaks directly to the heart."--Le Monde "Eric Faye is a rare talent."--Le Figaro There were just eight centimeters of juice now, though I'd meas ...Show more
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Century Trilogy 1 | Reading Level: very good
The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh ...Show more
Meant To Be by Fiona McCallum
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The inspiring conclusion to Emily's journey, from the bestselling author of Saving Grace and Time Will Tell. Emily Oliphant's life finally seems to be settling down. Her new boyfriend Jake has joined her on the farm, they are looking forward to starting their life together, and her financial security se ...Show more
Italian Wife by Kate Furnivall
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Italy, 1932 -- Mussolini's Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at what cost? One bright autumn morning, architect Isabella Berotti sits at a cafe in the vibrant centre of Bellina, when a woman she's never met asks her to watch her ten-year-old daughter, just for a moment. Reluctantly, Isabel ...Show more
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position by Tabish Khair
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Can the glass ever really be more than half-full? A young Pakistani academic relives his days sharing a cramped apartment in Aarhus, Denmark, with two unlikely bedfellows. They are Ravi, his incorrigible best friend and a wry observer of the human condition; and Karim, their fundamentalist Muslim landlo ...Show more
If I Knew You Were Going to be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go by Judy Chicurel
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Judy Chicurel's exquisitely written debut evokes the atmosphere of a 1970s summer in a close-knit working class community on Long Island. Katie and her young friends face a changing world, with prospects very different from those presented to their parents. The Vietnam War seems pointless to many but ha ...Show more
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Frank Bascombe Ser.
In his masterful trio of novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely-discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Now, in LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU, Bascombe returns. Sixty-seven years old, ensconced in a quiet ...Show more
The Incorrigible Optimists Club by Jean Michel Guenassia
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marin is drawn to the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration is not on the game, but on ...Show more
Bad Romeo by Leisa Rayven
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Starcrossed
Cassie Taylor was just another acting student with big dreams at her prestigious performing arts college...then she met Ethan Holt. She was the good girl actress. He was the bad boy on campus. But one fated casting choice for Romeo and Juliet changed it all. Like the characters they were playing on stag ...Show more
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Mesmerizing from the first page to the last, Kristin Hannah's Winter Garden is one woman's sweeping, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and redemption. At once an epic love story set in World War II Russia and an intimate portrait of contemporary mothers and daughters poised at the crossroads of their l ...Show more