The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fans of The Little Paris Bookshop will delight in this tender novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a passionate librarian--a Holocaust survivor determined to leave Europe behind as she opens the first bookshop h ...Show more
Census by Jesse Ball
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY The New York Times - The Chicago Reader - Nylon - The Boston Globe - The Huffington Post - The Rumpus - The AV Club - Southern Living - The Millions - Buzzfeed - Esquire A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devasta ...Show more
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Conceived while his larger-than-life father, Bear Bavinsky, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, the young Pinch learns that his father''s genius trumps everything else. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy--first as a painter, and then as his father''s biographer, before s ...Show more
The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'He reflected in future retrospect on the evening and foretold every gesture, every word. "I can't do it," he said. "I can predict everything that will happen from the moment they arrive to the little kiss on the cheek goodbye and I just can't goddamn do it."'The Dinner Party immerses us in the comic an ...Show more
The Honey Farm by Harriet Alida Lye
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The bees are restless. After a long drought, Cynthia's isolated honey farm has suffered in the heat. Soil dries into sand; honeycomb stiffens into wax. But she has a plan- offer the farm as an artists' colony with free board and 'life experience' in exchange for a summer of hard labour. For Silvia, a re ...Show more
Letters to Iris by Elizabeth Noble
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Iris was once everything to her granddaughter. But now she's losing her grip on her precious memories, and it's too late for Tess to ask for the advice she needs now more than ever. Tess is stunned to discover she's pregnant - but in spite of her relationship breakdown she knows she wants the surprise ...Show more
Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
April 1945, the last days of the Nazi regime. While bombs are falling on Berlin, the Gestapo are still searching for traitors, resistance fighters and deserters. People mistrust each other more than ever- everyone could be a spy. In the midst of chaos, the young soldier Joachim Lassehn desperately wants ...Show more
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Our greatest African American poet's award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas townWhen first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted noveli ...Show more
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Alexandra Boyd has travelled to Bulgaria hoping to salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. But a luggage mix-up soon after she arrives finds her holding an urn filled with human ashes. As Alexandra sets out to return the precious item to its owners she finds ever more obstacles in her ...Show more
The Tea Gardens by Fiona McIntosh
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Spirited doctor Isla Fenwick is determined to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to life as a dutiful wife. With hopes of making a difference in the world, she sails to Calcutta to set up a midwifery clinic. There she will be forced to question her beliefs, her professionalism a ...Show more
Flesh and Bone and Water by Luiza Sauma
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Brazilian-born doctor Andre Cabral is living in London when one day he receives a letter from his home country, which he left nearly thirty years ago. A letter he keeps in his pocket for weeks, but tells no one about. The letter prompts Andre to remember the days of his youth - torrid afternoons on Ipan ...Show more
Things Bright and Beautiful by Anbara Salam
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mission House was not built for three people. Especially when one of them won't stop humming.When Bea Hanlon follows her preacher husband Max to a remote island in the Pacific, she soon sees that their mission will bring anything but salvation. It's not just the rats and the hordes of mosquitos and the ...Show more