Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction
The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hyp ...Show more
The Beautiful Mother by Katherine Scholes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction
'You are her mother in this moment. The future is another time.' In a remote part of Tanzania known as the Cradle of Humankind, Essie Lawrence lives with her husband in an archaeologist's camp. One morning a chance encounter with two strangers out in the field sees her making a rash promise - one she ha ...Show more
Troppo by Madelaine Dickie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction
"Troppo's a story about black magic, big waves and mad Aussie expats. Set in Sumatra, it's told from the perspective of Penny, a young surfer who's landed a job managing a resort for the notorious Aussie Shane. Penny is drifting, partying, hanging out - a thousand miles away from claustrophobic Perth an ...Show more
The Rhythm Section by Mark Burnell
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Category: Crime and Thriller | Series: The Stephanie Fitzpatrick series
Soon to be a major motion picture, from the producers of the James Bond film series, starring Jude Law and Blake Lively. She has nothing to lose and only revenge to live for She thought her life was over... Stephanie Patrick's life is destroyed by the crash of flight NE027: her family was on board and t ...Show more
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A poignant tale about the enduring friendship between two men under the shadow of the Second World War. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he li ...Show more
HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy by Kathy Lette
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction
Ruby is generous, sunny and funny - which is why all her friends, family and colleagues have turned up to celebrate her 50th birthday. But with a few too many glasses of champers under her belt, Ruby's speech doesn't go exactly to plan. Instead of the witty and warm words guests are expecting, Ruby take ...Show more
Ghosts of the Past by Tony Park
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Category: Crime and Thriller
Is a century-old secret still worth dying for? Will tracing the history of a maverick Australian adventurer in southern Africa lead two intrepid researchers to untold riches or to suffer the same unimaginable fate? Historical adventure meets modern thriller in this epic story of war, betrayal, greed and ...Show more
Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
$18.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction
I can split myself in two... something I have to do because of Joy and Matilde. They are my grandmothers and I love them both and they totally love me but they can't stand each other. Eleven-year-old Allegra shuttles between her grandmothers who live next door to one another but couldn't be more differe ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction
In a house in Brunswick, summer is coming, and a young man is being strongly encouraged to go outside against his will. He says he's not a shut-in, but he certainly acts like one, spending all day taking hot showers and eating Vegemite toast. But when his housemate and best friend, Dan, gets a boyfriend ...Show more
Battle Sight Zero by Gerald Seymour
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Category: Crime and Thriller
From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick The Kalashnikov AK47. A weapon with a unique image. A symbol of freedom fighters and terrorists across the globe. Undercover officer Andy Knight has infiltrated an extremist group intent on bringing t ...Show more
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: very good
The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling. Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them. This story starts with a ...Show more