Shtum by Jem Lester
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'Will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you think' Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project 'A book with true heart and soul' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble With Goats and Sheep Ten-year-old Jonah lives in a world of his own. He likes colours and feathers and the feel of fresh air on his s ...Show more
A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald by Natasha Lester
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
It's the roaring twenties in the Manhattan of gin, jazz and prosperity. Women wear makeup and hitched hemlines and enjoy a new freedom to vote and work. Not so for Evelyn Lockhart, who is forbidden from pursuing her passion to become one of the first female doctors. Chasing her dream will mean turning h ...Show more
Courting Trouble by Kathy Lette
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Tilly has the day from hell when she's sacked from her barristers' chambers in the morning, then finds her husband in bed with her former best friend in the afternoon. She escapes to her mother, Roxy - a sassy solicitor whose outrageous take on men, work and family life is the despair of her more conven ...Show more
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture (Film Ed) by Joshua Levine
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescue ...Show more
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? The Ukrainians: Irina, just off the coach from Kiev, and eager to imp ...Show more
A Sheltered Woman by Yiyun Li
$9.99 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize Auntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily replaced by the next. But the hundred and thirty-second baby and ...Show more
Blossoms and Shadows by Lian Hearn
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Tales of the Otori
This is the story of the birth of modern Japan, told by Tsuru, a young woman who breaks every stereotype of the Japanese lady. We meet her on the day of her sister's wedding, and soon realise that she will not accept the same domestic role that her sister is about to take on. Instead, Tsuru is ready to ...Show more
The Storyteller and His Three Daughters by Lian Hearn
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
TOKYO 1884: Sei has devoted his life to storytelling, captivating audiences with his tales. But now he is starting to wonder if the new world has left him behind. Just when he thinks he will never write again, his own life and the lives of the people around him begin to spiral out of control - providing ...Show more
Deadly Beautiful : Vanishing Killers of the Animal Kingdom
$14.99 AUD
Category: General
This entertaining book deals with an endlessly fascinating subject in a new, unique way. Humans have always had an ambivalent relationship with deadly animals. For most people they arouse fears and even phobias, yet perhaps the real risks are not quite as large as they loom in the public imagination. DE ...Show more
On Reading, Writing and Living with Books by Library, London
$11.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: London library
Uncomfortably Close (aka You Gotta Have Balls) by Lily Brett
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
It hasn't been easy for Ruth Rothwax, the proprietor of a successful letter-writing business, to branch out into a new greeting-card line. Her father, Edek, is driving her crazy at the office. Other women, who she thought would be supportive, are being catty and competitive, behavior Ruth swears that sh ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
$19.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Tie-in Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a popular teacher. Now, in a series of letters to her absent husband, Eva recounts the story of how Kevin came to be Kevin. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her ...Show more