Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Summer 2011. Berlin. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, though - as a brilliant, satirical imper ...Show more
Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andrei Makine
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him - a scor ...Show more
In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This is a bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. An investment banker approaching forty, in the midst of his career collapsing and marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. Confronting the dishevelle ...Show more
The Last Boat Home by Dea Brovig
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Explosive, dark and tender, The Last Boat Home is a devastating novel about sacrifice, survival and a mother's love. If you loved The Light Between Oceans or The Snow Child, this is for you. On the wind-swept southern coast of Norway, sixteen-year-old Else is out fishing on the icy sea, dragging her oar ...Show more
Cat Out of Hell by Lynne Truss
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mesmerising tale of a cat with nine lives, and a relationship as ancient as time itself and just as powerful. The scene: a cottage on the coast on a windy evening. Inside, a room with curtains drawn. Tea has jus ...Show more
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Bridget Jones's Diary Ser.
What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th? Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant? Is technology ...Show more
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
"A luscious novel composed of just the right measure of sex, glamour, passion, and psychological motivation . . . . This is a candy of a book."-- "Cosmopolitan." "Smoothly written, engrossing . . . Ann is a heroine you love to hate . . . . Will be read with enormous enjoyment for the personalities, fro ...Show more
Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
From the prize-winning author of Seating Arrangements comes an exquisitely written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations. Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a young American dancer who helps a Soviet ballet sta ...Show more
Life Drawing by Robin Black
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
**A fierce, honest, and moving portrait of a marriage — the betrayals and intimacies, the needs and regrets, the secrets that sustain love and the ones that threaten to destroy it.** Augusta and Owen have moved to the country, and live a quiet and rather solitary life: Gus, as a painter; Owen, as a writ ...Show more
The Way Back Home by Freya North
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
One summer, something happened that changed everything forever...We were who we were, the children of Windward - a little ragtaggle tribe defining the ethos and eccentricity of the place...Born and brought up in an artists' commune in Derbyshire, Oriana Taylor had freedom at her fingertips in a home ful ...Show more
I am China by Xiaolu Guo
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter: Dearest Mu, The sun is piercing, old bastard sky. I am feeling empty and bare. Nothing is in my soul, apart from the image of you. I am writing to you from a place I cannot tell you about yet. In a ...Show more