Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good-very good
The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and ...Show more
The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín [Toibin]
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Picador Collection
Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland's high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter and, at least outwardly, his own childhood.The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family's retreat by the sea at Cush, is ...Show more
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics*One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped the World'*"Every tru ...Show more
The Country of Others by Leila Slimani
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1944 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj, a Moroccan soldier, billeted in her town, fighting for the French. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France, following Amine t ...Show more
A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
An uplifting and magical story of childhood, family and finding ways to change the inevitable ...Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 ... 33 ... and 93. On one impossible day in 1965, eight-year-old Willa receives a mysterious box containing a jar of water and the instruction: ‘One ocean: plant in the backyard.’ S ...Show more
One Summer Between Friends by Trish Morey
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
Australian author Trish Morey returns with a compelling and moving story about broken friendships and the rocky road of forgiveness. Coming home was never going to be easy ... With a failed marriage behind her, and her career dreams in tatters, Sarah returns home to Lord Howe Island to run the family s ...Show more
The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
In Strasbourg, in the boiling hot summer of 1518, a plague strikes the women of the city. First it is just one - a lone figure, dancing in the town square - but she is joined by more and more and the city authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in. The devil will be danced out of the ...Show more
The Valley of Horses (#2 Earth's Children) by Jean M. Auel
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Earth's Children Ser.
The second volume of the astonishing Earth's Children(R) series--over 34 million copies sold worldwide In The Valley of Horses, Ayla, the unforgettable heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear, sets out on her own odyssey of discovery away from the nurturing adoptive family and friends of the Clan. She ...Show more
On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for an escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother's stories. Together they disappear into their imagination and forge a world where a patch of grass reveals an archaeologist's dig, t ...Show more
The Minute I Saw You by Paige Toon
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Some people believe that it's possible to fall in love simply by gazing into another person's eyes, but Hannah, who spends her working life staring into the eyes of strangers, has never felt anything out of the ordinary for any of her clients. Then she meets Sonny, and a spark ignites between them that' ...Show more
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
1944. It's a Saturday lunchtime on Bexford High Street. The Woolworths has a new delivery of aluminum saucepans, and a crowd has gathered to see the first new metal in a long time. Everything else has been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone. Incinerated. Atomised. Among ...Show more
The Prize by Kim E. Anderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
'Is that what you want to do? Peer into my soul and capture my flaws, for all to see?' As World War II draws to a close, Australian society is still deeply conservative. Homosexuality is illegal and the scourge of Modernism is infecting Australian art. When William Dobell paints a portrait of lover and ...Show more