When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. F ...Show more
Willowman by Inga Simpson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Allan Reader, one of the last traditional batmakers in the country, keeps his family business alive in a small workshop in Melbourne. When Todd Harrow, a gifted young batter, catches Allan's eye, a spark is lit and Allan decides to make a Reader bat for him, selecting the best piece of willow he's harve ...Show more
Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society by Sophie Green
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly divorced Cynthia has returned to her home town from Los Angeles to reconnect with her 19-year-old daughter, who is pregnant and determined not to listen to her mother's advice. Cynthia's former best friend, Lorraine, has been stuck mowing lawns as part of a business she shares w ...Show more
Darkness Runs Deep by Claire McNeel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In the darkest hour, a blood-soaked teenager flees the rural Gerandaroo football oval. Eight months later, Bess, a young teacher, returns home to Gerandaroo. A childhood game of dare with her former best friend forces Bess to form a women's footy team to play against Denby, a rival town. Bess reluctant ...Show more
North Woods by Daniel Mason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and inhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote him ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$23.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A powerful, compressed masterwork that explores questions of complicity, power and devotion. A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - fr ...Show more
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Internationally bestselling author Christy Lefteri returns with a dazzling new novel, about one family struggling to recover from trauma, set against the backdrop of the forest fires of Greece. This morning, I met the man who started the fire. You see, he was the one who took it all away, all of life a ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling o ...Show more
The Arrangement by Robyn Harding
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A Pretty Woman tale turns deadly in this provocative tale of sex, obsession and murder from the bestselling author of The Party.Natalie, an art student in New York City, is struggling to pay her bills when a friend makes a suggestion: Why not find a sugar daddy - a wealthy, older man who will pay her fo ...Show more
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy pe ...Show more