The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
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Category: Fiction
Chilling . . . the perfect summer page-turner. "Chicago Tribune" Kafka would love "The Beautiful Bureaucrat." . . . It s a surprising revelation of a book from an uncompromising author as unique as she is talented. NPR Riveting . . . thrillerlike . . . Ultimately, "The Beautiful Bureaucrat "succeeds bec ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The novel is fully annotated and is accompanied by Hardy's map of Wessex and a plan of late Victorian Oxford (the Christminster of the novel). The textual history of Jude the Obscure-including an account of the surviving manuscript showing Hardy's major change of intention during its composition, of the ...Show more
The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1897, one young woman risks everything to earn a college degree but the secret she hides could be her undoing. "Passing" meets "The House of Mirth" in this captivating reimagining of a remarkable true story. Since childhood, Anita Hemmings has longed to attend the country s most exclusive school for ...Show more
The Interminables by Paige Orwin
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 2020, and a magical cataclysm has shattered reality as we know it. Now a wizard's cabal is running the East Coast of the US, keeping a semblance of peace. Their most powerful agents, Edmund and Istvan - the former a nearly immortal 1940s-era mystery man, the latter, well, a ghost - have been assign ...Show more
Blame by Nicole Trope
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'If you love writers such as Jodi Picoult, Nicole may just be your cup of tea.' The Hoopla..'I am here because they suspect me of something. I am here because I am a suspect. I know that, she knows that. Everyone knows that.' Anna..'It wasn't my fault. None of this is my fault!' Caro..Caro and Anna are ...Show more
Many Selves of Katherine North by Emma Geen
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kit has been projecting into other species for seven years. Longer than anyone else at ShenCorp. Longer than any of the scientists thought possible. But lately she has the feeling that when she jumps she isn't alone...Since she was twelve, Kit has been a phenomenaut, her consciousness projected into the ...Show more
The Lamentations of Zeno: A Novel by Ilija Trojanow
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
German glacier expert Zeno Hintermeier is taking his last voyage to the Antarctic as a lecturer on board an international cruise ship. He attends to the curiosity of a privileged few as they marvel at the least explored continent and pay witness to its rapid degradation. In his early sixties, Zeno mourn ...Show more
The Toymaker by Liam Pieper
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'A person is defined by the secrets they keep.' Adam Kulakov likes his life. He's on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of millions of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he ...Show more
The Harrowing by James Aitcheson
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Five strangers. Five secrets. No refuge. No turning back. In the aftermath of 1070, a Norman army marches through the North of England: burning, killing and laying waste to everything in its path. The Harrowing has begun. As towns and villages disappear under the Norman yoke, five travellers fleeing ah ...Show more
My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of a ...Show more
The Assistants by Camille Perri
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Funny and clever, this is the next Devil Wears Prada' Paige Toon. Behind every successful man is a busy assistant and Tina's boss is very successful. But Tina is tired of being overworked and underpaid. She's bored of her damp flat and her mounting debts. Then a blip in the expenses system sends Tina a ...Show more
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility which they prune with a zeal that belies the fact that they are both over eighty. But o ...Show more