This Must be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The dazzling new novel from Sunday Times bestselling, Costa Novel Award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ir ...Show more
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with hopes for their future. They got married, had a child, and skated through all the small calamities of family life. But then, slowly, quietly something changes. ...Show more
Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was i ...Show more
Starbook by Ben Okri
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
"Starbook" tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. Their fragile story considers the important questions we all face, exploring creativity, wisdom, suffering and transcendence in a time when imagination still ruled the world. A magnificent achievement and ...Show more
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
******* A dazzling and unsettling novel of psychological suspense. Survival is the name of the game as one woman's mind and body are pushed to the limit. TWELVE CONTESTANTS When Zoo agrees to take part in a new reality TV show, In the Dark, she knows that she will be tested to the limits of her enduranc ...Show more
Rooms by Lauren Oliver
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family-bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna-have arrived for their inheritance. But the Walkers are not alone. Prim ...Show more
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Two children were born in the Montreal winter of 1914: Pierrot of a twelve-year-old girl named Ignorance; Rose, rescued from a snowdrift. They were fated to meet in the Catholic orphanage. There, in the face of cold, hunger and unpredictable beatings, Rose and Pierrot create a world of talking bears, o ...Show more
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
"The Spider King's Daughter" is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of a changing Lagos, a city torn between tradition and modernity, corruption and truth, love and family loyalty. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a sprawling ...Show more
Holidays in Heck by P. J. O'Rourke
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including China, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and the Galapagos Islands. The collection begins after the Iraq War, when P.J. retired from being a war correspondent because he was "too old to keep being scared stiff and too s ...Show more
Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate by Anne Ostby
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out! When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school friends, inviting them to live with her on a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific, they swa ...Show more
Useful by Debra Oswald
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Sullivan Moss is useless. Once a charming underachiever, he's now so hopeless that he even fails his attempt to end it all. Waking up in hospital after falling the wrong way on a rooftop, he comes to a decision. After a life of regrets, Sully wants to do one useful thing. If he can't make something of h ...Show more
The Dangers of Truffle Hunting by Sunni Overend
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
True desires will be unearthed … For readers of Gourmet Traveller, Lena Dunham and Joanne Harris, a delightful sexy story that spans the Australian wine country, the French provinces and hip inner Melbourne. Kit Gossard's life is neatly mapped out. A secure photographic job. A partner ready to commit. A ...Show more