Max Gate by Damien Wilkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"A witty and sentient writer"--LA Times "Wilkins can command a breathtakingly supple literary style"--The New York Times 1928: Thomas Hardy is dying in the upstairs room of Max Gate, the house he built in his beloved Dorset. Downstairs, his literary friends are locked in a bitter fight with loca ...Show more
Sea Change by Gina Chung
$29.99 AUD
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Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at an aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (mountain dew and copious amounts of gin, plus ...Show more
The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a fast-paced, Agatha Christie-esque caper packed full of romance and suspense. With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is ...Show more
Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
$32.99 AUD
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite ...Show more
In Search of a Reputation - Bastien-Lepage by Neil Miley (Preface by)
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The book traces an art student's search for a reputation in the years following the War of 1870. France is in political and financial turmoil, the student struggles to find his way in a changing landscape that insists on art being part of the political progress to ensure the survival of a Republican for ...Show more
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She ...Show more
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the sa ...Show more
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more
Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer
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Category: General
THE SATURDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ‘Truly one of the most beautiful stories you’ll ever read’ JOANNA CANNON ‘I laughed, I cried, I sat quietly and thought about what I’d read… a future classic’ CLARE MACKINTOSH This is the story of Isaac and the Egg, a grieving young man and his unforgettable new frie ...Show more
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The powerful and moving new novel from international bestselling author Isabel Allende, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler ...Show more