Magick of Master Lilly by Tobsha Learner
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1641, the country of England stands divided. London has become a wasps' nest of spies, and under the eyes of the Roundheads those who practice magic are routinely sent to hang. Living in exile in the Surrey countryside is the Master Astrologer and learned magician William Lilly. Since rumours of occ ...Show more
Startup - A Novel by Doree Shafrir
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A biting and astute debut novel with] many delights." --Lara Vapnyar, New York Times Book Review Recommended as a book to read this month by BuzzFeed, Bustle, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Nylon, Town & Country and Lit Hub One of the most anticipated books of 2017--Vulture, BuzzFeed, The Mill ...Show more
Rain by Kirsty Gunn
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A twelve-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The days are long and hot and while the parents entertain their friends the two children are left alone to play and dream and let the future come down upon them . . . This is a story of loss. Of how families come undone ...Show more
How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for her liking. Then John Kite, Johanna's unrequited love, has an album go to number one. Suddenly John exis ...Show more
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
**New York Times bestseller** A Guardian / Observer Book of the Year When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Ar ...Show more
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more
The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A superbly written novel offering an intriguing interpretation of one of the world s greatest aviators, the glamorous and mysterious Jean Batten. Batten became an international icon in the 1930s. A brave, beautiful woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspapers couldn ...Show more
The Last Watchman of Old Cairo: A Novel by Michael David Lukas
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this "wonderfully rich" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by The Millions Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father ...Show more
Ghosts: M.R. James by M. R. James
7.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. ...Show more
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends. Some were lost to the battles of the First World War, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended. Now, at the dawn of the 1920s, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India, France and Germany, and, inevitably, back to Britain, each o ...Show more
Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
People pass the word only to those they trust most- Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk's first novel in four years, he does what he does best- skewer ...Show more
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"One of the most pleasurable and satisfying new books I've read in a long time. Setterfield is a master storyteller...swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful." --Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles "A beguiling tale, full of twists and turns like th ...Show more