Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
-------------------------------------------------------THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSurprise Meis Sophie Kinsella's emotionally charged, witty new standalone novel about love and long-term relationship survival - and how those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . .After ...Show more
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come...On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian Mc ...Show more
Monsieur Ka by Vesna Goldsworthy
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Without quite realising that I would do it until it happened, I raised myself on my toes and kissed his frozen cheek. In Paris, it would have been an unremarkable gesture. In Alexandria, an invitation. I still had no idea about London.' The London winter of 1947. As cold as St Petersburg during the Re ...Show more
Ashland & Vine by John Burnside
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1999. Kate Lambert, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. The woman, Jean Culver, declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer- if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story. And if she can stay sober bey ...Show more
The Amazing Hat Mystery (Wodehouse Pick-Me-Up) by P. G. Wodehouse
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Wodehouse is a tonic' - New Yorker.A Wodehouse pick-me-up that'll lift your spirits, whatever your mood.Cheaper and more effective than Valium'.*Offers 'relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour'.*'Read when you're well and when you're poorly; when you're travelling, ...Show more
Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo (Wodehouse Pick-Me-Up) by P. G. Wodehouse
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Wodehouse is a tonic' - New Yorker. A Wodehouse pick-me-up that'll lift your spirits, whatever your mood.'Cheaper and more effective than Valium'.*Offers 'relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour'.*'Read when you're well and when you're poorly; when you're travelling ...Show more
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. R ...Show more
Child of Mine by Janita Cunnington
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this tug-of-love there can be no winners . . . It's January 1974, and a devastating flood is about to change the lives of four generations of women. Maggie Rowe is thirty-five, a teacher, and still living with her mother, Vera, in a tiny cottage in Hill Street, Brisbane. Next door lives Donna Birtle ...Show more
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Reviewed by Sally Another book I could not put down this year. The Only Story is, of course, about love - the pivot point of Paul's life. Now elderly and alone, with a vast and difficult bank of memories - Paul recollects his tragic love affair with Susan, 27 years his senior. If you've read Barnes befo ...Show more
Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband by Barbara Toner
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A charming and witty novel, set in a small country town in 1919. 'When Adelaide Nightingale, Louisa Worthington, Maggie O'Connell and Pearl McLeary threw caution to the winds in the most brazen way imaginable, disgrace was inevitable.'It's September 1919. The war is over, and everyone who was going to d ...Show more
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Sunday Times bestseller.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE.Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018. 'A brilliantly plotted story of mermaids, madams and intrigue in 1780s London and I wouldn't be surprised to see it become the Essex Serpent of 2018' - The Pool 'Imogen Hermes Gowar is a ...Show more
Mudbound FTI by Hillary Jordan
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The International Bestseller Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards. In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on ...Show more