The Song Collector by Natasha Solomons
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Fox, as the celebrated composer Harry Fox-Talbot is known, wants to be left in peace. His beloved wife has died, he's unable to write a note of music, and no, he does not want to take up some blasted hobby. Then one day he discovers that his troublesome four-year-old grandson is a piano prodigy. The mus ...Show more
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Set in the Alaskan landscape that she bought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child (a Sunday Times bestseller, Richard and Judy pick and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Eowyn Ivey's To the Bright Edge of the World is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth century. Lie ...Show more
The Windy Season by Sam Carmody
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the mid-west town of Geraldton on the central coast of Western Australia. He is also a previous recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards and his short fiction and non-fic ...Show more
The Memory of Running (FS) by Ron McLarty
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Smithson Ide's life so far has led him nowhere. He's 43 years old, weighs 279 pounds, and keeps himself numb with food and alcohol. His only emotional ties are to his parents and to the memory of his older sister, Bethany, who has been missing for 20 years. Then his parents die in a car crash and he lea ...Show more
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical
London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Accompanied by her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, where she hopes f ...Show more
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet and passport - all of her money and identification. Though the police investigate, the woman senses an undercurrent of c ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
It's 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages ...Show more
Hide by Matthew Griffin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'This is a great love story' Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story Wendell Wilson, a taxidermist, and Frank Clifton, a veteran, meet after the Second World War. But, in this declining textile town in a southern US state, their love holds real danger. Severing nearly all ties with the rest of the wor ...Show more
The Farmer's Wife by Rachael Treasure
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Deniliquin Ute Muster had always been on Rebecca's wish list, but with the farm and babies, she'd never managed to make it. Tonight, she decided to reclaim herself. After ten years being married to larrikin Charlie Lewis and living on her beloved property, Waters Meeting, Rebecca is confronted by a ...Show more
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A powerful and timely story of marriage, class, race and the pursuit of the American Dream. Behold the Dreamers is a dazzling debut novel about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and of what we're prepared to sacrifice to hold on to each of them. ‘We all do what we gotta do to become American, ...Show more
The Oldest Song in the World by Sue Woolfe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: good
Kate, a lonely city woman and reluctant student, is asked by her teachers to travel to the middle of the Australian desert to record a dying Aboriginal woman singing an ancient song. She accepts because she believes that she might be able to reunite with a childhood love and solve the mystery of her pas ...Show more
A French Wedding by Hannah Tunnicliffe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A French Wedding is a novel filled with love, lies, fights, friendship and feasts, which reads like a love triangle between The Big Chill, Chocolat and Les Petits Mouchoirs ("Little White Lies"). Max is turning forty. All he wants for his birthday is for his six oldest friends to come to France to eat, ...Show more