The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
"The Spider King's Daughter" is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of a changing Lagos, a city torn between tradition and modernity, corruption and truth, love and family loyalty. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a sprawling ...Show more
Holidays in Heck by P. J. O'Rourke
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including China, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and the Galapagos Islands. The collection begins after the Iraq War, when P.J. retired from being a war correspondent because he was "too old to keep being scared stiff and too s ...Show more
Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate by Anne Ostby
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out! When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school friends, inviting them to live with her on a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific, they swa ...Show more
Useful by Debra Oswald
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Sullivan Moss is useless. Once a charming underachiever, he's now so hopeless that he even fails his attempt to end it all. Waking up in hospital after falling the wrong way on a rooftop, he comes to a decision. After a life of regrets, Sully wants to do one useful thing. If he can't make something of h ...Show more
The Dangers of Truffle Hunting by Sunni Overend
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
True desires will be unearthed … For readers of Gourmet Traveller, Lena Dunham and Joanne Harris, a delightful sexy story that spans the Australian wine country, the French provinces and hip inner Melbourne. Kit Gossard's life is neatly mapped out. A secure photographic job. A partner ready to commit. A ...Show more
Sink Or Swim by Owen Ravenscroft
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
The rain had eased to a misty drizzle, hardly more than an annoyance. From the kitchen Hamish could see a corner of his wheat crop. It had fallen over under its own weight. Wet wheat was only good for stock feed, hardly worth the cost of harvesting. There was still the occasional pregnant drop exploding ...Show more
The Painted Ocean by Gabriel Packard
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
When I was a little girl, my dad left me and my mum, and he never came back. And you're supposed to be gutted when that happens. But secretly I preferred it without him, cos it meant I had my mum completely to myself, without having to share her with anyone. And I sort of inherited all the affection she ...Show more
The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Otto Laird is outraged ...The peaceful, if slightly bemused, existence of this elderly, retired architect is rudely interrupted when he learns that his most significant and revolutionary building, Marlowe House, a 1960s tower block council estate in south London is to be demolished. Determined to do eve ...Show more
Falling Blossom by Peter Pagnamenta
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
The tragic true love story of an English officer, Arthur Hart-Synnot and a Japanese woman, Masa Suzuki, played out against the background of World War One. This is the beautiful, true story of a tragic love affair. When Arthur Hart-Synnot, a disciplined, conservative British army officer met Masa Suz ...Show more
Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison's journey across the unspeakable (and really gross) landscape of the afterlife to confront the Devil himself. But her story isn't over yet. In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil. ...Show more
The Witch of Belladonna Bay by Suzanne Palmieri
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
In Suzanne Palmieri's thrilling new novel, The Witch of Belladonna Bay, Bronwyn is forced to return home to Magnolia Creek, Alabama - a place she hasn't been since her mother, Naomi, died fourteen years earlier - and the troubled family she left behind. With her brother Patrick behind bars for the murde ...Show more
French Children Don't Throw Food by Pamela Druckerman
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
How do the French manage to raise well-behaved children and have a life! What British parent hasn't noticed, on visiting France, how well-behaved French children are - compared to our own? How come French babies sleep through the night? Why do French children happily eat what is put in front of them? Ho ...Show more