Radiant Shimmering Light by Sarah Selecky
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A nuanced satire--both hilarious and disconcerting--that probes the blurred lines between empowerment, spirituality, and consumerism in our online lives.Lilian Quick is 40, single, and childless, working as a pet portrait artist. She paints the colored light only she can see, but animal aura portraits a ...Show more
The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
***THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*** ''Fans of Cloud Atlas and Never Let Me Go will love The History of Bees'' Good Housekeeping ... ''Dystopian and electric, this book is set to blow minds everywhere'' Stylist ... ''Haunting and poignant ... an important and wonderful book'' Dave Goulson, best ...Show more
The Radleys by Matt Haig
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
On a leafy street in the quiet British village of Bishopthorpe lives an ordinary and dysfunctional but happy family. Peter Radley is the village doctor, and his wife Helen is a member of the local book club. Their children Clara and Rowan are experiencing the standard hormonal anguish of adolescence. Bu ...Show more
Echo Boy by Matt Haig
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Audrey's father taught her that to stay human in the modern world, she had to build a moat around herself; a moat of books and music, philosophy and dreams. A moat that makes Audrey different from the echoes: sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to resemble humans and to work for human masters. Da ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$23.95 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007Winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction 2007Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007Winner of the Kiriyama Writers' Prize 2008Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war.Matilda attends the scho ...Show more
The Cage by Lloyd Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Two mysterious strangers appear at a hotel in a small country town. Where have they come from? Who are they? What catastrophe are they fleeing? The townspeople want answers, but the strangers are unable to speak of their trauma. And before long, wary hospitality shifts to suspicion and fear, and the car ...Show more
Sisters and Brothers by Fiona Palmer
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: fine
A poignant novel of heartbreak, adoption and family secrets Emma, a nurse and busy mother of three, has always dreamed of having a sister. Michelle, at 46, wonders if it's too late to fall in love and find her birth parents. Sarah, career woman and perfectionist homemaker, struggles to keep up with the ...Show more
The Last Summer of Ada Bloom by Martine Murray
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family begins to unravel. Marital secrets, new and long-hidden, surface--with devastating effect. Martha is straining against the confines of her life, lost in regret for what might have been, when an old flame shows up. In turn, her husban ...Show more
At Home with the Templetons by Monica McInerney
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
When the Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in country Australia, they set the locals talking - and with good reason. From the outside, the seven Templetons seem so unusual, peculiar even. No one is more intrigued by the family than their neighbours, single mother Nina D ...Show more
Spin the Bottle by Monica McInerney
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Lainey Byrne is a woman in control, juggling a hectic job, her boyfriend Adam and a family with more than its fair share of dramas. Things go into a spin when she is wrenched from her life in Melbourne to run a B&B in Ireland for a year. Bed-and-breakfast quickly tumbles into bed-and-bedlam, especia ...Show more
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial Times Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in ...Show more
Upside Down Inside Out by Monica McInerney
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Ever been tempted to pretend you were someone exotic, someone adventurous a someone different? Set in Ireland, England and Australia, this is the funny and heartwarming story of two people whose lives are about to turn upside down and inside out. Eva is off to Australia on a break from her job in a Du ...Show more