The Home Girls - Text Classics by Olga Masters
$12.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Text Classics
The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life. Set in the mid-twentieth century, these are tales of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters was, as the Advertiser remarked, 'a natural storyteller'. Between the publication of The Home Girls, in 1982, and her dea ...Show more
Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: 44 Scotland Street #9
Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its ninth season in The Scotsman. Anything could happen to B ...Show more
The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Elizabeth Stone, a respected academic, has a new lease on life. In remission from cancer, she returns to the city where she was a student over thirty years ago to investigate some little-known papers by T. S. Eliot, which she believes contain the seeds of her masterpiece; a masterpiece that centres on a ...Show more
First Love, Last Rites - Short Stories by Ian McEwan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.
Why You're Not Married - Yet by Tracy McMillan
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
With 3 marriages under her belt, Tracy McMillan KNOWS how to get married, and she knows exactly why so many other women still aren't. In Why You're Not Married...Yet, she pulls no punches telling the modern woman precisely what she's doing wrong. Based on Tracy's Valentine's Day Huffington Post blog art ...Show more
Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
More than a year has passed since Marjan, Bahar, and Layla, the beautiful Iranian Aminpour sisters, sought refuge in the quaint Irish town of Ballinacroagh. Opening the beguiling Babylon Cafe, they charmed the locals with their warm hearts and delectable Persian cuisine, bringing a saffron-scented spice ...Show more
Keep You Safe by Melissa Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A mother always knows best. Doesn't she? For single mum Kate O'Hara, there was no decision to make. Her daughter Rosie is one of a small percentage of Irish children with a disorder that prevents her from being vaccinated against measles. All Kate can do is hope that herd immunity keeps the disease at b ...Show more
Love Matters Most by Mij Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
A stunning and uplifting picture book celebrating the special bond between a parent and child. There are many amazing things - faraway stars that glitter and gleam and snowflakes that melt to a tear - but nothing is as wonderful as a mother's love for her child. Yes, the world's full of treasure and f ...Show more
Wabi Sabi by Francesc Miralles
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Living apart from his girlfriend Gabriela, from whom he seems to have grown gradually distant, university lecturer Samuel is shaken from his humdrum existence when he receives an anonymous postcard from Japan depicting a porcelain figurine of a cat and the words "wabi-sabi", followed by the unexpected v ...Show more
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A gripping tale of mystery and adventure from the bestselling author of THE TAXIDERMIST'S DAUGHTER and LABYRINTH. 1891. Seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade. But Leonie stumbles a ...Show more
Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
'Nayomi Munaweera writes with ferocity, fire and poetry of the incomprehensible madness of civil war and its effects upon those caught within it, whether in the villages and cities of Sri Lanka, or half a world away. A masterful, incendiary debut.' Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander Before civil war ...Show more
The Loud Earth by Elizabeth Murray
$14.95 AUD
Category: General
A recluse lives in a mountain cabin above a lakeside tourist town. Acquitted of the brutal murder of her parents, she remains guilty in the eyes of the town. Shut away from their fear and anger, her world is reduced to the landscape around her: the mist across the mountains, the sway of bayonet grass, t ...Show more