The Safe Place by Anna Downes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For struggling actress Emily Proudman, life in London is not working out as planned – in fact, it’s falling apart. So when she is offered a live-in job working for a wealthy family on their luxurious coastal property in France, she jumps at the opportunity to start over. The estate is picture-perfect, a ...Show more
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the c ...Show more
The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparent ...Show more
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: MUSIN | Reading Level: good
"The Museum of Innocence" - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life ...Show more
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more
Love Over Scotland (#3 44 Scotland Street) by Alexander McCall Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against ...Show more
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
February 29, 1944: I am about to jump out of an aeroplane for the first time … I don’t care that every man is looking at me as though I don’t belong. Besides, I’m hungover. And I think I might throw up … In 1936 intrepid young Australian journalist Nancy Wake is living in Paris after witnessing firsthan ...Show more
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
The Times bestseller by the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale."An intricate story about war, family, secrets and,yes, wood ... An engaging, satisfying read" The Times "So cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic momentum as it zeroes in on its conclusion" Scotsma ...Show more
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Women Ser.
Jo's BoysLouisa May AlcottThe sound of applause from the piazza put a stop to these antics, and the young folks went up the avenue together very much in the old style when Tom drove four in hand and Nan was the best horse in the team. Rosy, breathless, and merry, they greeted the ladies and sat down on ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Bath Treasury) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
The classic children's story, now available in a new package A classic piece of children's literature first published as a novel in 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden is a story of transformation and renewal. Unwanted by her parents, Mary Lennox, a spoiled, selfish young girl is raise ...Show more
Black Beauty (Puffin Classics) by Anna Sewell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction
Although his mother warns him that there are 'bad, cruel men? in the world, he begins his life in a happy home, with a friendly groom to look after him and plenty to eat. However, when a change of circumstances means that he is sold, he soon discovers the truth of his mother?s words. Anna Sewell?s movin ...Show more
The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta, Melina Marchetta
$19.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
'You look the type to break your father's heart.''Yeah, but he broke mine first.' When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years lat ...Show more