Cherry - A Novel by Nico Walker
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Reviewed by Martin. This devastating debut by Nico Walker is not for the faint hearted. With tight, punchy prose, Walker drags us through the hell of war, addiction, crime and love. Hard to put down, hard to classify, a real gem. Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about lov ...Show more
Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe
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Category: General
It is 1883 and the farms of County Fermanagh, on the border of Ulster and what we now know as the Republic of Ireland, are crisscrossed with religious, political, and generational tensions. Through the events of a single day in the life of Elizabeth Winters, we see decades of pain, betrayal, and resentm ...Show more
Year of the Beast (Glenroy Book #6) by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Glenroy Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
One of Australia's finest and most critically acclaimed writers returns with a powerful novel that goes back to the very beginning of the story, to bring his sweeping Glenroy series to a magnificent close. Melbourne, 1917: the times are tumultuous, the city is in the grip of a kind of madness. The Grea ...Show more
The Six Loves of Billy Binns by Richard Lumsden
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Category: General
THE SIX LOVES OF BILLY BINNS is a deeply moving and honest debut set in London against the backdrop of the changing 20th century. it is reading group fiction perfect for those who loved the quirky pathos of Gail Honeyman's ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE and the humour of Rachel Joyce's THE UNLIKELY ...Show more
The Ice House by Laura Lee Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
From a writer who's been praised for her 'intelligence, heart, wit' (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls), The Ice House follows the beleaguered MacKinnons as they weather the possible loss of the family business, a serious medical diagnosis and the slings and arrows of familial ...Show more
The Upside (FTI) by Abdel Sellou
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French aristocrat) inspired the award-winning French movie Les Intouchables (2012), which became an international phenomenon and broke records as one of the most successful French movies ...Show more
How To Be Second Best by Jessica Dettmann
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A hilarious and heart-warming debut that captures the dramas, delights and delirium of modern parenting. This is Marian Keyes meets Allison Pearson, with a dash of Caitlin Moran. Going from one child to two is never all that easy for a family, but when Emma's husband simultaneously fathers a third child ...Show more
The Man on a Donkey by H. F. M. Prescott; John Cooper (Introduction by)
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Category: General
'A classic of historical fiction' HILARY MANTEL. 'By widespread assent, one of the finest historical novels ever written. It may even be the finest' TLS. Sir John Uvedale had business at Coverham Abbey in Wensleydale, lately suppressed, so he sent his people on before him to Marrick, to make ready for ...Show more
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton
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Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
The extraordinary new novel everyone is talking about from the Sunday Times best-selling author of Sister Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds. It is a morning's lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods. It is an eternity waiting for news. Or a countdown to someth ...Show more
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant. Now the women must fend for themselves. Eigh ...Show more
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
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Category: General
Staff notes: A woman detective and her ghostly companion in 19th century London set about trying to solve the case of a missing child who is... different... in fact, perhaps even deadly. - Belinda The case of the extraordinary child . . .London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the fin ...Show more
The Sun down Motel by Simone St. James
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Category: General
Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to ...Show more