Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
The brand-new novel from the International No.1 Bestselling phenomenon and author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Nisha, 45, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband inexplicably cuts her off entirely. She do ...Show more
Small Island by Andrea Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, Andrea Levy's SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel of empire, prejudice, war and love. It has now been adapted into a major BBC TV drama. It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern S ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
$12.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own home. In 'Metamorphosis' and the ...Show more
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Inspired by a real event of the murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with superstitions and violence--violence that poisons everything around. The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing in the murky waters of the irrigation canals discover her decom ...Show more
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12) by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 12 | Reading Level: very good
As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong, has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles o ...Show more
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