The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Conceived while his larger-than-life father, Bear Bavinsky, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, the young Pinch learns that his father's genius trumps everything else. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy-first as a painter, and then as his father's biographer, before sett ...Show more
The J. M. Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society by Barbara Jane Zitwer
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
When Joey Rubin stumbles upon a group of elderly women swimming in a lake one freezing January morning, she thinks they must be mad. But then they dare her to come in - Joey, an overworked New York architect, has come to the Cotswolds to oversee the restoration of Stanway House - the stately home that i ...Show more
The Jacaranda House by Deborah Challinor
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Restless Years | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns with a spellbinding novel about a woman living in Sydney's notorious King's Cross in 1964. Polly Manaia is living in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She's desperate to bring her young daughter to live with her, but beneath her bra ...Show more
The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
$14.99 AUD
Category: General
Manning renders Shanghai as a riot of flavors, sights, and sounds, its elegance clashing against gritty poverty in this exquisite window into the past.' - Booklist, starred review 'Kirsty Manning has woven, blended, sewn the threads of history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turnin ...Show more
The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Praise for The Midsummer Garden'This is a rich, sensual, and evocative novel, fragrant with the smell of crushed herbs and flowers, and haunted by the high cost that women must sometimes pay to find both love and their vocation.' Kate Forsyth'...compelling, passionate and admirable.' Australian Women's ...Show more
The Jade Widow by Deborah O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A captivating historical novel of pioneering Australian women finding their way in a man's world, from the author of the bestselling Mr Chen's Emporium. It is 1885, and Amy Chen is still in black, more than a decade after the death of her beloved husband Charles. But her widow's weeds belie a determined ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
The Jam Queens by Josephine Moon
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Award-winning jam-maker Aggie is determined to take her Barossa Valley cafe to new heights. She has put the pain of unsuccessful IVF treatments and a broken relationship behind her, and is focused on the many wonderful possibilities life still holds in store. When an invitation to travel across Australi ...Show more
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but e ...Show more
The Janes (#2 Alice Vega) by Louisa Luna
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: AN ALICE VEGA NOVEL
'Men pretty much have a triangle. Sex, drugs, money,' she said, drawing a triangle in the air with her finger. 'Every man who commits a criminal act does it in service to one or more of those three things...Most men, actually, do everything because of them.' On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of ...Show more
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende; Nick Caistor (translator); Amanda Hopkinson (translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma B ...Show more
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted, multigenerational love story.In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Franci ...Show more