Torched by Kimberley Starr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
If my son killed anyone, I’d know. I know him. A small Yarra Valley town has been devastated by a bushfire, and Reefton Primary School principal Phoebe Warton can’t sleep. She’s the single mother of eighteenyearold Caleb who is accused of starting the fire – on purpose. Twelve people are dead, students ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light
$45.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3
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
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set during the gold-rush era in Australia, this remarkable novel is full of unforgettable characters and deals with timeless questions of identity and belonging.Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields i ...Show more
The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery | Reading Level: very good
Frank is a service station owner on a little-used highway who just wants a quiet life. His granddaughter has been sent to stay with him to fix her attitude, but they don't talk a lot. When a badly injured young woman arrives at Frank's service station with several cars in pursuit, Frank and a handful of ...Show more
The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A fierce and beautiful debut novel about our capacity for harming ourselves, each other and the world around us. In the early 19th century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the then-unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water. Oxley never found it, but he never ceased to believe it w ...Show more
Sweetness and Light by Liam Pieper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An intoxicating, unsettling story of the battle between light and dark, love and lust, morality and corruptionIndia, monsoon season.Connor, an Australian expat with a brutal past, spends his time running low-stakes scams on tourists in a sleepy beachside town. Sasha, an American in search of spiritual g ...Show more
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The extraordinary new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Station Eleven. Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent h ...Show more
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with ...Show more
The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham, Vivian Pham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Growing up can feel like a death sentence Life in a troubled neighbourhood demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn’t really know. Watching the world from her bedroom window, she exists only in second-hand romance novels and falls for any fast-food employee who happens to spare her a glance. Everyth ...Show more
Trace Elements (Brunetti #29) by Donna LEON
$32.99 AUD
Category: Scandinavian & Euro Crime | Series: BRUNETTI #29 | Reading Level: very good
When Dottoressa Donato calls the Venetian Questura, reporting that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague Commissario Claudia Griffoni know there is no time to waste. 'They killed him ... Bad money', are some of the siby ...Show more
Ghost Species by James Bradley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
When scientist Kate Larkin joins a secretive project to re-engineer the climate by resurrecting extinct species she becomes enmeshed in another, even more clandestine program to recreate our long-lost relatives, the Neanderthals. But when the first of the children, a girl called Eve, is born, Kate canno ...Show more
Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It's a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. We choose to breathe, don't we?Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged from her p ...Show more