Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become ...Show more
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of EM Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there. In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embark ...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
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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