The Wardrobe Mistress by Patrick McGrath
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
It is January, 1947. The war has been over for two years. London's in ruins, there's nothing to eat, and it's the coldest winter in living memory. To make matters worse, one of the great stage actors of the day, Charlie Grice, has suddenly died. His wife Joan, the wardrobe mistress, is prostrate with gr ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
It's 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages ...Show more
The Chocolate Tin by Fiona McIntosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
"The highly anticipated new blockbuster by the bestselling author of The Perfumer's Secret. Alexandra Frobisher, a modern-thinking woman with hopes of a career in England's famous chocolate-making town of York, has received several proposals of marriage, although none of them promises that elusive extra ...Show more
Stand Up Strummer: A Tale of Sex, Love and Side-effects by Dr. Russ Harris
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
It's time to enter the world of Max Strummer, a 30-something doctor who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. His medical practice is booming, his comedy career is taking off, and his three-year relationship with Sarah is thriving. But everything crashes the night he catches Sarah in bed with another woman ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist and pessimist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a ...Show more
The Surfacing by Cormac James
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Hand over hand, Petersen drew the rope out of the water. The gap between the two ice pans was barely a foot wide. Morgan watched the man coiling the rope nicely onto the ice. Inside him, a stupid hope had already bred, that the boy might still be attached to the end of it. He would come up laughing and ...Show more
Blue Monday (#1 Frieda Klein) by Nicci French
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Frieda Klein | Reading Level: General Adult
"Blue Monday" is the thrilling first novel in Nicci French's top-ten bestselling new series introducing psychotherapist Frieda Klein, and is perfect for all fans of the crime novels of Peter James. "Blue Monday" - A day for murder...Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed ...Show more
The True Story Of Butterfish by Nick Earls
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
'I'm not about to attack,' she said. She smirked with one side of her mouth and looked up at me through the black spray of her fringe. Her eyes were dark and already she was playing some kind of game with me, or that's how it seemed. Her voice was a little deeper and huskier than I might have expected, ...Show more
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to have a baby, and finally it looks as though her dream is about to come true - she is seven months pregnant. But a terrible turn of events takes away her baby and breaks apart her marriage to Max. In the aftermath she throws herself into her career as a music ther ...Show more
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction "I read The Life and Death of Sophie Stark with my heart in my mouth. Not only a dissection of genius and the havoc it can wreak, but also a thunderously good story."--Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of Room "This nov ...Show more
Elianne by Judy Nunn
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
In 1881 'Big Jim' Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour. The massive estate becomes a self-sufficient fortress, a cane-c ...Show more
Captive by Tony Park
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: vey good
A very eager - and rather naive - Australian lawyer Kerry Maxwell flies into South Africa to volunteer at a wildlife orphanage run by notorious vet, Graham Baird. Graham is as jaded and reckless as Kerry is law-abiding and optimistic. When Kerry arrives at the animal sanctuary it's to the news that Grah ...Show more