The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John
23.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
At F. G. Goode's department store, the women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush and the summer sales that follow. But it's Sydney in the 1950s, and there's still just enough time left on a hot and frantic day to dream and scheme... By the time the last marked-down frock has be ...Show more
Serena by Ron Rash
24.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to build a timber empire. Serena is new to the mountains - but she soon proves herself the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband's life in the wil ...Show more
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #2) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
24.95 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Bks.
Struggling writer David Martin drives himself to ill-health writing steamy melodramas while he works on his own masterpiece and yearns for the unattainable Cristina. When his novel is published to scathing reviews and is quickly buried, David makes an impossible deal with a mysterious French publisher- ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
24.95 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist
32.95 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: good
On a winter trip home to the island of Domaro, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gavasten. And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to Domaro t ...Show more
Truth by Peter Temple
23.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore, winner of the Gold Dagger for ...Show more
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
9.99 AUD
32.95 (69% off)
Category: FICTION
Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unli ...Show more
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
Following a childhood marked by poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife and children, he arrives in a harsh land to a life that feels like a death sentence. But among the c ...Show more
Addition by Toni Jordan
23.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local cafe (920); the number of poppy seeds on her slice of orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she'll take to finish it. Grace counts everything, because numbers hold the world together. And ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
23.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007Winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction 2007Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007Winner of the Kiriyama Writers' Prize 2008Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war.Matilda attends the scho ...Show more
Promises by Cathryn Hein
29.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
A father with something to hide, a jockey with a taste for blackmail, a man with an agonising secret - and a young woman in love, defying them all. Sophie Dixon is determined to leave her troubled past behind and forge a bright future on her beloved farm. While looking to buy a new horse, she is drawn b ...Show more