Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possi ...Show more
BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Published as Beartown in USA
In a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret . . . Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the town is offered a bright new future. But it is all put in jeopardy by a sin ...Show more
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
$22.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Ruth, a ghostwriter of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself. Her ailing mother Luling tries to hold on to the evaporating past, writing of her girlhood in a Chinese mountain village. Set in modern San Francisco and pre-war China, Tan's new novel is the mesmerising tale of a mo ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - first published in 1987 - brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrenc ...Show more
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
$14.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" ' Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the pa ...Show more
You Again by Debra Jo Immergut
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
How well do you really know yourself?Abigail Willard first spots her from the back of a New York cab: the spitting image of Abby herself at age 22 — right down to the silver platforms and raspberry coat she wore as a young artist with a taste for wildness. But the real Abby is now 46, married with a cor ...Show more
Pucking Wild (#2 Jacksonville Rays) by Emily Rath
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Jacksonville Rays
The second book in the international bestselling Jackson Rays series!The spicy new romance from international bestseller Emily Rath! My name is Tess Owens and my life is officially on fire. I never thought dancing at my best friend's wedding would be the match to light the flames. But with one lingering ...Show more
The Colony by Audrey Magee
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZELonglisted for the Booker Prize 2022‘A canny, challenging, and never less than engrossing read.’ Lisa MacInerney ‘A vivid and memorable book about art, land and language, love and sex, youth and age. Big ideas tread lightly through Audrey Magee’s strong prose.’ Sarah Mos ...Show more
After (#1) by Anna Todd
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The\After Ser.
Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She's got direction, ambition, and a mother who's intent on keeping her that way. But she's barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, tattoos, and lip ring, Hardin is ...Show more
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"Mrs. Parks was often paid in gold dust, but she paid her girls in dollars ..."From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girlsMonterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was kill ...Show more
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 inThe Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph. Fully lives up to the hype - a taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black ...Show more
Needful Things by Stephen King
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day. Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, ...Show more