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Charlie by Lesley Pearse
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Charlie" is the latest from bestselling author Lesley Pearse. Her family is threatened and only she can save it...When sixteen-year-old Charlie witnesses a brutal attack on her mother by two strangers she is shocked and terrified. But after talking to the police she realises that her father's business ...Show more
Hannah Coulter: A Novel by Wendell Berry
$18.98 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Port William Ser.
"Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war and the lives of others were mourned. In her s ...Show more
How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints) by Kathy Lette
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Where there's a will, I intend to be in it," wives half-joke to each other.Marriage, it would appear, is a fun-packed frivolous hobby, only occasionally resulting in death. But when Jazz Jardine is arrested for her husband's murder, the joke falls flat.Life should begin at 40 - not with life imprisonme ...Show more
Ellie by Lesley Pearse
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Ellie is a sweet-natured brunette, generous of heart with a sparkling smile and an accent which reveals her East End background. Bonny is beautiful and spoilt, with cascades of blonde hair, the brightest pair of blue eyes and a mouth like Cupid's bow. The two girls meet in London at the end of the war w ...Show more
Worthy Opponents by Danielle Steel
$21.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Worthy Opponents is a riveting and dynamic tale of family, wealth and success from the billion copy bestselling author, Danielle Steel.Spencer Brooke grew up knowing that one day she would inherit and run Brooke's, one of New York's most respected luxury department stores. Established by Spencer's grand ...Show more
An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he will finish university, when he will find a girl. But they don't understand about Sean's mother, Jewel, or the bush or the fish with the pearl. They think he needs a job ...Show more
Tears of the Moon by Di Morrissey
$12.99 AUD
$19.99 (35% off)
Category: Contemporary
Tears of the Moon is the spellbinding prequel to Kimberley Sun from Australia's favourite storyteller with the new novel Arcadia out soon. Two inspiring journeys. Two unforgettable women. One amazing story.Broome, Australia, 1893: It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when yo ...Show more
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...'Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friend ...Show more
Uncommon Type - Some Stories by Tom Hanks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
PRE - LOVED Two-time Oscar] winner Hanks delivers his first collection of 17 surprising, intelligent, and heartwarming short stories that show he is as talented a writer as he is an actor.over.
How to Fall in Love by Cecelia Ahern
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
'A tender, funny and romantic drama' Marie Claire Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night: Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin; Adam is poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate - but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His birthday is looming and she bet ...Show more
Arcadia (HB) by Di Morrissey
$29.99 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, ...Show more