Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn't hard to understand why: it's 1964 and neither the police, the public nor the papers care much when Negro women go missing. Maddie Schwartz - recently separated from ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional ...Show more
Where the Light Enters (#2 Gilded Hour) by Sara Donati
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Gilded Hour #2 | Reading Level: very good
Obstetrician Dr Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr Anna Savard, her dearest friend, cousin, and fellow physician, she plans to continue her work aiding the disadvanta ...Show more
The Boy in the Headlights: From the author of the Richard & Judy bestseller I'm Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjork
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Munch and Krüger Ser.
The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case. 'Gives Jo Nesbo a run for his money' Sunday Express Munch and Krüger. An unexpected pairing. A brilliant team. Winter 1996. An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the emp ...Show more
Return of the Temujai (#8 Brotherband) by John Flanagan
$18.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
The Heron brotherband are home in Skandia - but their usually peaceful country is in danger. The Temujai have never given up on their ambition to claim Skandia for their own. The ruthless warriors from the Eastern Steppes waited a number of years after the Skandians thwarted them last time - with the he ...Show more
Nation by Terry Pratchett
$14.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Widely thought of as the best book Terry Pratchett ever wrote, this is a story of a Nation, a story of a friendship, a story of growing up and the truths we must learn. It is epic in every sense . . . Prepare for the world to be turned upside down . . . For Mau, halfway between boy and man, it happens ...Show more
The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: 2 Crime
We've all done things we're ashamed of . . . When Ava arrives at Brodie's Watch, she thinks she has found the perfect place to hide from her past. Something terrible happened, something she is deeply ashamed of, and all she wants is to forget. But the old house on the hill both welcomes and repels her a ...Show more
Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
'I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.' Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he's in ...Show more
Khaki Town by Judy Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Khaki Town, Judy Nunn's exciting new novel, is inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over seventy years. It seems to have happened overnight, Val thought . How extraordinary. We've become a khaki town. It's March 1942. Singapore has fallen. Darwin has been bombed. A ...Show more
Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more
White Bird: A Wonder Story (HB) by R. J. Palacio
$39.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
To the millions of readers who fell in love with R J Palacio's Wonder, Julian is best-known as Auggie Pullman's classroom bully. White Bird reveals a new side to Julian's story, as Julian discovers the moving and powerful tale of his grandmother, who was hidden from the Nazis as a young Jewish girl in o ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$23.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
The Schooldays of Jesus, is the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee's widely praised The Childhood of Jesus David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to ...Show more