Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
In the restless streets, crowded waiting rooms and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war. Latha wants a home. Anoushka wants an iPod. Mano hopes to win his wife back. Lakshmi dreams of rescuing a lo ...Show more
The Photographer's Wife by Suzanne Joinson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious - and wildly eccentric - plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the 'little witness', eavesdrops underneath the ...Show more
The Memory Tree by Tess Evans
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literature
When Paulina dies mid-dance, leaving 12-year-old Zav and 7-year-old Sealie with Hal, their loving yet often unstable father, the family decides to plant a tree in her memory. This beautiful magnolia tree grows apace with the children, standing proud in the garden, a special place where secrets are whisp ...Show more
Adverbs by Daniel Handler
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Marking the return of Daniel Handler to adult fiction, Adverbs tackles life
Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Where magnificence and squalor co-exist, there will always be envy, rage, cruelty, paranoia and violence... St Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàunder its surface of fro ...Show more
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They plumb their memories of each other and pass quiet judgments on the life decisions each has made since their youth. This isn't, however, just any old reunion, and their conversations of the old days ...Show more
Closing Down by Sally Abbott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
No matter how strange, difficult and absurd the world becomes, some things never change. The importance of home. Of love. Of kindness to strangers. Of memories and dreams. Australia's rural towns and communities are closing down, much of Australia is being sold to overseas interests, states and countrie ...Show more
The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Two summers, decades apart.Two women whose lives are forever entwined.And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both.At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just another beaut ...Show more
The Year that Changed Everything by Cathy Kelly
$23.99 AUD
$29.99 (20% off)
Category: Literature
'Warm, witty and wise' Marian Keyes Three women, three birthdays, one year that will change everything... Ginger isn't spending her thirtieth the way she would have planned. Tonight might be the first night of the rest of her life - or a total disaster. Sam is finally pregnant after years of trying. Whe ...Show more
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired taste. It's not that she's judgemental, or fussy, or difficult - she just expects things to be done in a certain way. A cutlery drawer should be arranged in the right order, for example (forks, knives, then spoons). We're not animals, ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient. The past never remains in the past... London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war.14-year-o ...Show more
The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An assured, inspiring debut which demonstrates the power of the human spirit to give comfort in times of hardship. In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches from the darkness of her back porch as a strange woman lifts the cover off the family well and tosses ...Show more