One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: MIRA Tradesize Ser.
On a bitter March day, as a sudden snowstorm envelops the small town of Broken Branch, Iowa, an unknown man with a gun enters the town's only school and takes a classroom of children hostage. As awareness of the situation spreads, the panicked community is ready to do anything to protect their children, ...Show more
Skyward by Mary Alice Monroe
32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
E.R. nurse Ella Majors has seen all the misery that she can handle. Burned-out and unsure of her next step, she accepts the temporary position as caregiver to Marion Henderson, a frightened five-year-old who suffers from juvenile diabetes. But Ella soon realizes there is more sorrow in the isolated h ...Show more
Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
19.95 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
"The best debut novel I've ever read." --Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series "An exceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page." --Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Moonlight Mile S. J. Watson makes his powerf ...Show more
The Man from Primrose Lane by James Renner
29.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Four years after his wife's unexplained suicide, true crime writer David Neff is still shattered, still disengaged from life. Then a friend tries to interest him in the unsolved murder of a local recluse, and eventually David finds himself being drawn into the mystery. Who was the old man? Why was he al ...Show more
The Cook by Wayne Macauley
7.99 AUD
29.95 (73% off)
Category: FICTION
Power through service, says Head Chef. It's one of the first lessons taught at Cook School, where troubled youths learn to be master chefs by bowing to decadence and whim, by offering up a part of themselves on every plate. It's a motto Zac takes to heart. A teenage boy with a difficult past, he throws ...Show more
The Dinner by Herman Koch
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Paul Lohman and his wife, Claire, are going out to dinner with Paul's brother Serge, a charismatic and ambitious politician, and his wife, Babette. Paul knows the evening will not be fun. The restaurant will be over-priced and pretentious, the head waiter will bore on about the organically certified fre ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
19.95 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Tie-in Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Two years ago Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker and a popular teacher. Now, in a series of letters to her absent husband, Eva recounts the story of how Kevin came to be Kevin. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her ...Show more
Sarah Thornhill (a sequel to The Secret River) by Kate Grenville
29.95 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
'From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things fitted together. He never called me Dolly, the way the others did, only my full and proper name.' Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She grows up in ...Show more
The Good Muslim by Anan Tahmima
32.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
One hot afternoon in a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram brings life-changing news to Maya Haque's door. Eight years before, a brutal war tore Maya's country and her family apart. Now Maya realises it is time to return home at last. She arrives to find that everything has changed. Her old friends h ...Show more
The Ottoman Motel by Chris Currie
32.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Welcome to Reception Simon and his parents arrive in the small town of Reception and check in to the Ottoman Motel. Then, while Simon is asleep, his parents disappear. Are they lost? Has something terrible happened to them? Have they simply driven away and left him? All Simon knows is that he is alone i ...Show more
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
29.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Christine wakes in a strange bed beside a man she does not recognise. In the bathroom she finds a photograph of him taped to the mirror, and beneath it the words 'Your husband'. Each day, Christine wakes knowing nothing of her life. Each night, her mind erases the day. But before she goes to sleep, she ...Show more
The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne
32.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Colin dreams of escaping his parents' New Zealand farm for a grand stage career. He makes it to London and a disastrous audition before meeting Tilda; beautiful Tilda, older, an artist; who brings his future with her. A heady romance leads to a new home in a decaying former bank in a small town hours fr ...Show more