People Who Knew Me by Kim Hooper
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
"Kim Hooper's stunning debut novel sucks you in from the first page and doesn't let you go." Colleen Oakley, author of Before I Go People who knew me think I'm dead. Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loves passionately, she is building the lif ...Show more
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Official tie-in to the Netflix film featuring Idris Elba (Thor, Prometheus and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) and directed by Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre). Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain to fight the rebels. 'Ru ...Show more
White Jazz by James Ellroy
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. ...Show more
The Murder Room by P. D. James
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Adam Dalgliesh
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close ...Show more
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
'A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes for the right mark - the human heart' Raymond Carver You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivia ...Show more
A Twist in the Tale by Jeffrey Archer
$17.99 AUD
Category: General
The expected never happens ...A man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged ...Has he achieved 'The Perfec ...Show more
As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer
$17.99 AUD
Category: General
Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The Biggest Barrow in the ...Show more
The French Art of War by Alexis Jenni
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you see. Everything was going wrong. I just awaited the end. But then I met Victorien Salagnon, a veteran of the great colonial wars of Indochina, Vietnam and Algeria, a commander who had led his soldiers ac ...Show more
The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots by Jesse Blackadder
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This sweeping, imaginative and original epic tale of political intrigue, misplaced loyalty, and passion and betrayal is loosely based on real characters and events from the reign of Mary Queen of Scots. It is a well-researched, breathtaking and assured debut from a bold, fresh Australian voice
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Tom Hanks In this National Book Award finalist set in the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of histo ...Show more
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
'...so taut you may need to remind yourself to breathe.' - Sun-Herald '...packed with suspense and insight. If you enjoy reading Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, this is a novel which will absorb you.' - Highlife What would push you to commit a crime? Assistant District Attorney Nina Frost prosecutes ...Show more