Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
Happy Place by Emily Henry
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year for the past decade, they have left behind their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in the world. Except this year ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more
The Wolf and the Watchman (#1 1793) by Niklas Natt och Dag
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'A remarkable debut novel' Sunday Times 'The best historical thriller I've read in twenty years' A.J. Finn 'A thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful story. Reading it is like giving a little gift to oneself' Fredrik Backman The year is 1793, Stockholm. King Gustav of Sweden has been assassinated, ye ...Show more
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell- ...Show more
The Details by Ia Genberg
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A famous broadcaster writes a forgotten love letter; a friend abruptly disappears; a lover leaves something unexpected behind; a traumatised woman is consumed by her own anxiety.In the throes of a high fever, a woman lies bedridden. Suddenly, she is struck with an urge to revisit a particular novel from ...Show more
Maame by Jessica George
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi, but in my case, it means woman. Meet Maddie. To her mostly-absent mum, she's Maame, the woman of the family. To her dad, she's his carer - even if he hardly recognises her. To her friends, she's the one who still lives at home, who never puts herself first. It' ...Show more
Hippie by Paulo Coelho
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A journey to the past. A map for the future.Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, bestselling author Paulo Coelho relives the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and challenged the established social order.In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a skinny Brazilian with a goatee, learn ...Show more
At The Foot Of The Cherry Tree by Alli Parker
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
TikTok made me buy it! A heart-warming emotional new story of forbidden love and family heartbreak from an unforgettable BookTok 2023 romance sensation debut author A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese war bride and a love that changed a nat ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
$45.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: near fine
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat b ...Show more
The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. 1868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested ...Show more
Sparrow by James Hynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
'Utterly engrossing, vivid and honest' - Emma Donoghue 'A novel of ancient times for our times.’ - Jim Crace Sparrow tells the story of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British Roman town. Raised in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the waning years of the Roman Empire, a boy of no ...Show more