Once Upon a Time : A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
$22.95 AUD
Category: General
From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travell ...Show more
Captivated by You (The Crossfire Series #4) by Sylvia Day
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Crossfire Ser.
The fourth novel in the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling Crossfire series. Gideon calls me his angel, but he's the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing to face his own. The vows we'd exchanged should have bound us tighter ...Show more
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIANFIRST BOOK AWARD 2015WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENTNEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2015 You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window- COMPASSIONATE &am ...Show more
The Second Chance Cafe by Amanda Prowse
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: No Greater Love
Alex loves Christmas. She owns a cafe by Sydney's harbour bridge, and she spends days decorating it with vintage hand-cut snowflakes to look like a winter wonderland - a magical retreat from the baking Australian summer outside. This year has not been easy - she was dumped by the man she thought she'd m ...Show more
Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
Meet Frank - a modern nine-year-old boy with the wit of Noel Coward and the wardrobe of a 1930s movie star. Meet Mimi Banning - reclusive literary legend and mother to Frank. Mimi has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years, keeping her secrets, hiding from the world. Until Alice. Meet Alice - a ...Show more
Man Called Noon by Louis L'Amour
$12.99 AUD
Category: General
In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his past. Now he was up and running for his life - into a tangle of lies and deceit. His memory lost, the man had only a name and a few clues. Where did his skill with a gun come from? What was the link between his past life and half a million dollars' worth of bur ...Show more
Paris is Always a Good Idea by Nicolas Barreau
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
From the author of The Ingredients of LoveLove is on the cards ...Rosalie Laurent is a graphic artist and proud owner of a little postcard shop in Saint-Germain. Her specialty is producing 'wishing cards', and every birthday Rosalie sends a card inscribed with her heart's desire fluttering down from the ...Show more
Who's That Girl by Mhairi McFarlane
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
An achingly funny story from the author of the bestselling YOU HAD ME AT HELLO When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues' wedding, all the blame falls on her - turns out that personal popularity in the office is not that different from your schooldays. Shamed online and ostracised ...Show more
High Rising by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the de ...Show more
Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. And he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, RateYourLodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels and, horrors, bed and breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the a ...Show more
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Muller
$27.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fu ...Show more