The Lovers by Vendela Vida
19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Yvonne is newly widowed, her children grown up. And so, hoping to revisit memories of a happier time, she travels to Turkey. Despite the sand and sea, memories of Yvonne's past are overwhelming and she clings to a newfound friendship with Ahmet, a local boy who makes his living as a shell collector. Wit ...Show more
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tower block, making way for luxury apartments, will make each of its residents rich - if all agree to sell. But not everyone wa ...Show more
Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
10.00 AUD
32.99 (69% off)
Category: FICTION
This is the magnificent new novel from the million-selling Booker Prize-winner: one of the most eagerly anticipated literary novels of 2011. Every building tells a story: but in the jungle of Mumbai, one building - and one man - stands on the borderline between India's past, and its future...This title ...Show more
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
1718: Puppeteer John Chandagnac has set sail for Jamaica to recover his stolen inheritance, when his ship is seized by pirates. Offered the choice to join the crew, or be killed where he stands, he decides that a pirate's life is better than none at all. Now known as Jack Shandy, this apprentice buccane ...Show more
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
24.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: Adult
Fire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved out of the grey-green mountain jungle. Cold monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit, concealing a battery of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers, carefully constructed fields of fire and the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres fr ...Show more
Reamde by Neal Stephenson
24.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. Parlaying his wealth into an empire, Richard deve ...Show more
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
This is the dazzling second book from the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize and Nibbies 'Author of the Year' Aravind Adiga: one of the summer's most eagerly anticipated paperbacks and an Atlantic Superlead title. Nestling on India's southern coast lies the town of Kittur. Ranging through the city's st ...Show more
The Nostradamus Prophecies by Mario Reading
19.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
An ancient secret...A deadly conspiracy...A potential international bestseller. With translation rights sold in 27 countries, this high-octane commercial thriller tells of a hunt for the lost prophecies of Nostradamus and the two men who will do anything to discover their secrets. It is an entirely comp ...Show more
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamela Sediqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own. The economy collapsed and young men left the city in search of work and secur ...Show more
Mistaken by Neil Jordon
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
I had been mistaken for him so many times that when he died it was as if part of myself had died too.' Kevin Thunder grew up with a double - a boy so uncannily like him that they were mistaken for each other at every turn. As children in 1960s Dublin, one lived next to Bram Stoker's house, haunted by an ...Show more
Mozart's Ghost by Julia Cameron
24.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Anna is a thirty-something living alone in New York City. A schoolteacher by day, by night she works as a medium, covertly helping people reunite with their lost loved ones. Anna leads a double life, guarding her secret as much as she guards her heart - until Edward, a gangly yet handsome concert pianis ...Show more