North Woods by Daniel Mason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and inhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote him ...Show more
Darkness Runs Deep by Claire McNeel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In the darkest hour, a blood-soaked teenager flees the rural Gerandaroo football oval. Eight months later, Bess, a young teacher, returns home to Gerandaroo. A childhood game of dare with her former best friend forces Bess to form a women's footy team to play against Denby, a rival town. Bess reluctant ...Show more
Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society by Sophie Green
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly divorced Cynthia has returned to her home town from Los Angeles to reconnect with her 19-year-old daughter, who is pregnant and determined not to listen to her mother's advice. Cynthia's former best friend, Lorraine, has been stuck mowing lawns as part of a business she shares w ...Show more
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A powerful, compressed masterwork that explores questions of complicity, power and devotion. A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - fr ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling o ...Show more
Forever Never by Lucy Score
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over You don't fall for your brother's high school sweetheart, your boss's daughter, or your ex-wife's best friend. Especially when they're all the same woman.Under Brick Callan's mile-wide chest beats a loyal heart with ...Show more
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Internationally bestselling author Christy Lefteri returns with a dazzling new novel, about one family struggling to recover from trauma, set against the backdrop of the forest fires of Greece. This morning, I met the man who started the fire. You see, he was the one who took it all away, all of life a ...Show more
Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernieres
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. An entertaining novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is immine ...Show more
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy pe ...Show more
The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of Teacher. The staff of St Margaret's Primary School are hanging by a thread. There's serious litigation pending, the school is due for registration, and a powerful parent named Janet Bellevue has a lot to ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
MACEDONIA, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at the centre ...Show more
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
From Academy Award-winning actor and bestselling author TOM HANKS A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all. Spanning 80 years of a changing America and culminating in the opening of the f ...Show more