Adultery by Paulo Coelho
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives. This is Linda's story. She's lucky. She knows that. It's what makes being unhappy even worse. Her friends advise taking medication. But Linda wants to feel more, not less. A meeting with a politician, and ...Show more
Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan. 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Yea ...Show more
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America. 1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time passes, ...Show more
Almost Invincible: A Biographical Novel of Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein by Suzanne Burdon
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
"She is singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything else she undertakes, almost invincible." Mary Shelley began Frankenstein in 1814, when she was eighteen. By then, she had been living for two years in a scandalous relati ...Show more
Nagasaki (PB) by Eric Faye
$16.99 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the Académie française Grand Prix Award. "One of those brief and understated novels that stay with the reader for a very long time."--L'Express "Speaks directly to the heart."--Le Monde "Eric Faye is a rare talent."--Le Figaro There were just eight centimeters of juice now, though I'd meas ...Show more
Italian Wife by Kate Furnivall
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Italy, 1932 -- Mussolini's Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at what cost? One bright autumn morning, architect Isabella Berotti sits at a cafe in the vibrant centre of Bellina, when a woman she's never met asks her to watch her ten-year-old daughter, just for a moment. Reluctantly, Isabel ...Show more
Euphoria by Lily King
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance enc ...Show more
Beneath This Man (#2 This Man) by Jodi Ellen Malpas
$17.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: This Man Trilogy
You've fallen in love reading about Christian Grey; you've seen the Fifty Shades movie. Now it's time for your next fix. Beyond undeniable passion is fierce love...Jesse Ward drowned her with his intensity and blindsided her with his passion, but he kept her away from his dark secrets and broken soul. L ...Show more
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: Compassionate & Tolerant Owner. A person without other pets and without children under four. A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, 'too old for starting over, too young ...Show more
Dissolution (#1 Shardlake) by C. J. Sansom
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Shardlake Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The 1st instalment in the wildly popular Matthew Shardlake mystery series, now available from Vintage Canada. It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church. The country is waking up to savage new la ...Show more
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughterâe(tm)s wedding, June Reidâe(tm)s house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family âe" her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hun ...Show more
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende; Nick Caistor (translator); Amanda Hopkinson (translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma B ...Show more