The Magician by Colm Tóibín, Colm Toibin
$26.99 AUD
$32.99 (18% off)
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, which had drawn him away from the stifling, conservative town of his childhood, might be a source of pride once again. But his fla ...Show more
Still Life by Sarah Winman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster. 1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses ...Show more
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might ...Show more
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling new book from Evie Wyld, winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fat ...Show more
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: 13
The entrancing story of a reclusive Hollywood starlet as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine - from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
The Ripping Tree by Nikki Gemmell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
An illustrious family. A beautiful home. A shipwrecked young woman left on its doorstep. Don't think they're going to save her. A new novel from international bestselling author, Nikki Gemmell. Early 1800s. Thomasina Trelora is on her way to the colonies. Her fate: to be married to a clergyman she's ne ...Show more
The Women and the Girls by Laura Bloom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
A kind of Monkey Grip meets 'Nine to Five', The Women and The Girls explores the price - and the rewards - of family and friendship in the Age of Aquarius - and at the dawning of the Age of Divorce. Three friends. Three marriages left behind. Life begins in earnest. It's 1977, and warm, bohemian Libby ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Dark Tides (#2 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
Midsummers Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer, wealth, land, status, and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. The warehouse is failing, clinging on to ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: good
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of ...Show more