Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality--and Beatles fandom--from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he ...Show more
Maggie's Kitchen by Caroline Beecham
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
When the British Ministry of Food urgently calls for the opening of restaurants to feed tired and hungry Londoners during WWII, aspiring cook Maggie Johnson seems close to realising a long-held dream. After overcoming a tangle of red tape, Maggie's Kitchen finally opens to the public, but her restaurant ...Show more
Solace by Belinda McKeon
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Mark Casey has left home, the rural community where his family has farmed for generations, to study for a doctorate in Dublin, a vibrant, contemporary city full of possibility. To his father, Tom, who needs help baling the hay and ploughing the fields, Mark's pursuit isn't work at all and indeed he find ...Show more
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one arou ...Show more
The Yellow Brick Road to Financial Security by Mark Bouris
$26.95 AUD
Category: General
In 2004, founder and chairman of Wizard Home Loans - then Australia's leading home loan provider - sold his stake in the company to GE, the world's largest corporation. Overnight, he became wealthy beyond his dreams, but like many of the baby boomer generation, Mark Bouris had no idea how to go about pl ...Show more
Theft: A Love Story by Carey Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Theft: A Love Story, with a cover by Michael Leunig Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous' painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilib ...Show more
A Tiger in Eden by Chris Flynn
$22.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: General Adult
Beautiful beaches, sexy young backpackers, cheap drinks: southern Thailand in the mid-1990s is the perfect place for a holiday. It's also the perfect place for Billy - Loyalist hard man, NO SURRENDER chest tattoo, on the run from the Belfast police - to lie low. He's turning away from a life of crime, b ...Show more
Brida by Paulo Coelho
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, and has taken courses in astrology, tarot, and numerology, but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach her ab ...Show more
Fear is the Rider by Kenneth Cook
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide for work decides to take a short detour into the desert. He turns his hatchback on to a notoriously dangerous track that bisects uninhabited stone-covered flats. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours. He's not far along the road when a d ...Show more
Dodge Rose by Jack Cox
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law, as ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: General Adult
When Social Welfare threatens to put Ricky into care, the overweight Maori boy and cantankerous Uncle Hec flee into the remote and rugged Ureweras. The impassable bush serves up perilous adventures, forcing the pair of misfits to use all their skills to survive hunger, wild pigs and the vagaries of the ...Show more