Maame by Jessica George
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi, but in my case, it means woman. Meet Maddie. To her mostly-absent mum, she's Maame, the woman of the family. To her dad, she's his carer - even if he hardly recognises her. To her friends, she's the one who still lives at home, who never puts herself first. It' ...Show more
Hippie by Paulo Coelho
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A journey to the past. A map for the future.Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, bestselling author Paulo Coelho relives the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and challenged the established social order.In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a skinny Brazilian with a goatee, learn ...Show more
At The Foot Of The Cherry Tree by Alli Parker
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
TikTok made me buy it! A heart-warming emotional new story of forbidden love and family heartbreak from an unforgettable BookTok 2023 romance sensation debut author A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese war bride and a love that changed a nat ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
$45.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy 3 | Reading Level: near fine
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat b ...Show more
The Butterfly Collector by Tea Cooper
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author. 1868 Morpeth Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested ...Show more
Sparrow by James Hynes
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
'Utterly engrossing, vivid and honest' - Emma Donoghue 'A novel of ancient times for our times.’ - Jim Crace Sparrow tells the story of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British Roman town. Raised in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the waning years of the Roman Empire, a boy of no ...Show more
Estella (PB) by Kathy George
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
'A haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dickens's Great Expectations.' Karen Brooks, author. The icily enigmatic anti-hero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells her own story ... and changes the ending in this beguiling feminist take on a classic for readers of Pip Williams and Karen Brook ...Show more
Ordinary Hazards by Anna Bruno
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
For fans of Celeste Ng comes a transfixing debut novel about how life's small decisions can ultimately yield the most powerful consequences. Everyone always wants to know why relationships fail. It's a spiteful curiosity thing, schadenfreude, but also a self-preservation thing. People want to understand ...Show more
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This novel, told from the viewpoints of four Chinese mothers and their four American-Chinese daughters, examines the nature of the mother-daughter relationship, and the problems of cultural identity the characters face.
An Ideal Husband by Erica James
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Another uplifting, wryly humorous family drama from Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James... After 30 years of marriage, and a wonderful family Christmas, Louisa is stunned when husband Kip asks for a divorce on Boxing Day. He'd never seemed unhappy - and they've raised three children together. ...Show more
The Harsh Cry Of The Heron (#4 Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Tales of the Otori
An epic fantasy set in a mythical, medieval Japan, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori series has crossed genres, generations, and genders. Grand and complex in its themes, elegantly written, each book in the original trilogy has become a worldwide bestseller. The surprise fourth installment (and real concl ...Show more
Being Black 'n Chicken, and Chips by Matt Okine
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
A heartbreaking and often hilarious story about trying to grow up when everything is falling apart from one of Australia's leading comic talents. Mike Amon is a regular teenager. All he wants is to fit in. He wants to sit at the cool bench. He wants to be a star athlete. He wants his first kiss.