A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?;;Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for ...Show more
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe?'Brooks' mischievous retelling [of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath] dials up the feminist themes - and the fun - to 1 ...Show more
Ithaca (#1 Songs of Penelope) by Claire North
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Penelope Ser.
This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women--and their goddesses--that will change the course of the world. Seventeen years ...Show more
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
A sweeping story of love, friendship and betrayal in bohemian 1920s Paris The captivating story of a trailblazing young woman who fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the twentieth century to the world. PARIS, 1919. Young, bookish Sylvia Beach knows there is no gr ...Show more
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardize ...Show more
Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: very good
The author of the Sunday Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale. The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive . . . Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took the ...Show more
The Good People by Hannah Kent
$19.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. Based on true events and set in a lost world bound by its own laws, The Good People is Hannah Kent's startling novel about absolute belief and devoted love. Terrifying, thrilling and moving in equal measure, this long-awaited follow-up to Burial Rites shows an au ...Show more
Devotion by Hannah Kent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Prussia, 1836 Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity . . . until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838 The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at ...Show more
Harlem Shuffle (#1 Ray Carney) by Colson Whitehead
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...' To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents o ...Show more
Songs In Ursa Major by Emma Brodie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Behind every greatest hit, is an even greater love story. Set against the heady haze of the 70s and alive with music, sex and sun-soaked hedonism, SONGS IN URSA MAJOR is an unforgettable debut and the soundtrack to a love story like no other. ‘Emma Brodie perfectly channels the languorous romance of the ...Show more
The Encircling Sea (Vindolanda #2) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Vindolanda
AD 100: Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, is finding it hard to keep the peace. Based at Vindolanda - an army fort on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world - he feels the eyes of his enemies on him at all hours. Ambitious leaders sense a chance to carve out empires of t ...Show more
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octoge ...Show more