The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Count ...Show more
Mischling by Affinity Konar
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental populati ...Show more
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
"A wildly original novel that pulses with heart and truth . . . That this powerful exploration of friendship, desire, ambition, and secrets manages to be ebullient, gripping, heartbreaking, and deeply deeply funny is a testament to Kayla Rae Whitaker's formidable gifts. I was so sorry to reach the final ...Show more
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Completely unlike anything you've read before: this playful, poignant, genre-bending novel / entrance examination tells a story of copying, cheating, faking and messing up. Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache. Will you choose to cheat (in lif ...Show more
In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
1502 and Renaissance Italy is in turmoil. Backed by the money and wily power of his ageing father Pope Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia is soaring like a military comet, carving out a state for the Borgia dynasty. From Florence, a young diplomat, one Niccolo Machiavelli, is sent to shadow him to keep track o ...Show more
Colombiano by Rusty Young
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
"One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation." --Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, w ...Show more
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
A new novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'. In fin de siecle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Both C ...Show more
Season to Taste or How To Eat Your Husband by Natalie Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving...Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita. Likes cooking, avoids the neighbours. Runs a little business making cakes. No one has seen Lizzie's husband, Jacob, fo ...Show more
Secrets in Silence by Nicole Trope
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Category: General
A stunning novel about secrets and silence - and how sooner or later the truth must be spoken. Hard-hitting, gripping and unputdownable. There was so much anger brewing in the child that sometimes Alicia feared for all of them. And now she had gone and done this terrible thing. This terrible, terrible t ...Show more
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
An astonishing novel of unjust conviction, lost love and a journalist's obsession. Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a single playing card found on each door. Known as the 'Narito Disappearances', the crime has authorities baffled - until ...Show more
Luigi's Freedom Ride by Alan Murray
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
'It is the small lives, tucked away, that reveal humanity in all its bigness.' A charming treat of a novel - as sunny, light and enjoyable as a strawberry gelato eaten in an Italian piazza on a summer's day. Luigi is a young Italian boy growing up in Tuscany in the 1920s, dreaming of cowboys and adventu ...Show more