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
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
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...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
Watch Us Dance by Leila Slimani
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Watch Us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place and time of The Lost Daughter. The seductive, vibrant new novel from international bestselling author Leila Slimani. Morocco, 1968. As she stan ...Show more
The Unearthed by Lenny Bartulin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
When human remains are discovered in the wilds of the Tasmanian west coast, the dark past comes into the light of the present in this deeply moving novel from the author of Fortune. There are animals in the camouflage of undergrowth; they forage this final, fading night hour. They hear the grunting men ...Show more
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From Jeannette Walls, the bestselling author of The Glass Castle, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small ...Show more
Avoiding Mr Right by Anita Heiss
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A hilarious and heart-felt story of love, self-discovery and finding true happiness, from award-winning Wiradyuri author, Anita Heiss. Peta Tully thinks that 'Taking a man to Melbourne would be like taking a sandwich to a smorgasbord', that's why she is leaving him at home. Peta has found her Mr Right – ...Show more
It Takes a Town by Aoife Clifford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
So many people had reason to hate her, but did anyone have reason to kill her? Everyone dies famous in a country town, but glamorous Vanessa Walton was a shining star. A celebrity since she was a child, Vanessa is back on the front page for all the wrong reasons; after a terrible storm she has been f ...Show more
The Enchanters by James Ellroy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Fan favourite Freddy Otash is at large once more, tasked with running the cover-up on Marilyn Monroe's life and death. Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's look ...Show more
Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime and Thriller
ABIA 2022 General Fiction Book of the Year An extraordinary, unputdownable debut novel exploring trauma, connection, and our cultural obsession with dead girls. 'Beautiful, brilliant and strangely joyous ... will have you in its thrall from its powerful first page to its superb conclusion.' Rose Carlyle ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
$36.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every gener ...Show more