The Watch Tower: Text Classics by Elizabeth Harrower
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Category: FICTION | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly withdraws from them, the tw ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: FICTION | Series: Text Classics
"She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the subject keeps changing." An ageing writer fills his journal: he has opinions about everything. He is challenged by Anya, the smart, irreverent young woman he hires to type his notes. Anya's boyfriend sc ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
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Category: FICTION | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
Carl Williams by Adam Shand
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Barwon Prison's maximum security unit, 19 April 2010: Carl Williams is beaten to death with the stem of an exercise bike by a fellow inmate, while guards sit in the next room. And so, the last moments of this convicted contract killer and key figure in the Melbourne underworld echoed the rest of his lif ...Show more
Brumby's Run by Jennifer Scoullar
29.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Brumby's Run tells the story of Samantha Carmichael, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when she discovers she was adopted - and that she has a twin sister, who is now critically ill. With little warning, Sam finds herself looking after her newfound sister's farm, high in the Victorian Alps. ...Show more
Burning Lies by Helene Young
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Category: FICTION
Kaitlyn Scott is searching for the truth about her husband's death, even if that means revisiting the most painful day of her life. But what she uncovers is a criminal willing to stop at nothing to keep his secret. Ryan O'Donnell, an enigmatic undercover cop, is investigating arson attacks when he is dr ...Show more
The Road Home by Fiona Palmer
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Category: FICTION
After a family tragedy, Lara ran away to the big smoke to pursue a business career, but now her career is at a crossroads, her romance is in ruins and her old family farm is up for sale. In order to face the future, she must overcome the horror of her past; but has she got what it takes to go back to th ...Show more
Velocity by Steve Worland
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Set in Cape Canaveral and Central Australia, Velocity takes us deep inside the world of NASA and international terrorism. It features a cast of instantly compelling characters - including an astronaut hero, a heroine in deep peril and an ill-assorted group of criminals who hijack a shuttle right off its ...Show more
Zoe's Muster by Barbara Hannay
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Three women ...two families ...one secret ...When Zoe, restless black sheep of the Porter family, discovers that her biological father is a North Queensland cattleman, Peter Fairburn, her deep desire to meet him takes her from inner-city Brisbane to a job as a stockcamp cook. Zoe's mother, Claire, is wr ...Show more
The Mistake by Wendy James
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Category: FICTION
The past isn't dead. It isn't even past Jodie Garrow is a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks when she falls pregnant. Scared, alone and desperate to make something of her life, she makes the decision to adopt out her baby; and tells nobody. Twenty-five years on, Jodie has built a whole new life ...Show more
Bride by Mistake by Anne Gracie
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Category: FICTION
Eight years ago, Lieutenant Luke Ripton made a hasty wartime marriage to protect a Spanish girl, Isabella, planning to leave her in a remote mountain convent and have the marriage annulled when she turned 21. When Luke, now Lord Ripton, learns that the church will not grant an annulment, he goes to Spai ...Show more
Under Southern Skies by Rennie Anne Mccullagh
29.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Cate Perry's future couldn't look brighter. She's in love and has just completed her first solo flight on the station where she lives in the Northern Territory. But Cate's life changes forever after a freak plane accident kills her beloved father; while she is the pilot. Grief and shame drive her to Tam ...Show more