Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics) by Emily Bronte
$12.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Wuthering Heights" is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cru ...Show more
The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they’re bound together by the tragic death of their parents. They agree on not quite everything. Art thinks people are incapable of making sensible decisions, especially when it comes to love. That’s what algorithms are for. Mimi knows her b ...Show more
Kudos (Outline Trilogy #3) by Rachel Cusk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Outline
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma ...Show more
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong...? From the author of We All Want Impossible Things, a raucously funny novel with an unexpected punch about being 'sandwiched' between growing children and ageing parents and the power of change. From the bestselling author ...Show more
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he ...Show more
Crook Manifesto: Fast, fun, ribald and pulpy, with a touch of Quentin Tarantino Sunday Times by Colson Whitehead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Harlem Shuffle 2 | Reading Level: near fine
1971 - Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on t ...Show more
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Slave. Escape-Artist. Murderer. Terrorist. Spy. Lover. Mother. Trickster. Ms Mook made you want to listen to her, but I wasn't sure what to believe. She said she would turn 'one hundred the day after tomorrow', yet she looked at most eighty-seven. She said she'd been a slave, a spy, a murderer and mor ...Show more
The Little Boat on Trusting Lane by Mel Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Richard runs his alternative healing centre from an old houseboat in a scrapyard on Trusting Lane. The Little Mother Earth Ship provides spiritual sustenance at regular meetings of the Circle of IEWA. While Richard plies his new-age wisdom, disciples Finn and August help to run the centre. But warning l ...Show more
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
In this debut novel from acclaimed Booker Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go), post-war Japan serves as the haunting backdrop to a subtle story of memory, suicide, and psychological trauma. Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent su ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
Hopscotch by Jane Messer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Forced into an early retirement due to illness, Sam Rosen has lost any semblance of control over his life. His frustration flares into rudeness and obstinacy frequently and bizarrely. His wife Rhonda, confined to the carer role, is feeling her identity ebb slowly away as her former life retreats further ...Show more
Shallow Breath by Sara Foster
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shallow Breath is a mesmerising novel about family secrets and how far you would go to save someone you love. Two years ago, Desi Priest made a horrific mistake and destroyed her family. Now, she is coming home to make amends: to her daughter, Maya, who's nurturing her own dangerous plan; to her brother ...Show more