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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer - now an instant Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Women''s Prize. ''Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extre ...Show more
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
<i>My father always said with a name like Kitty Hawke I'd surely fly away. He said my mother should have thought of that before she named me. It was the way on the island, time out of mind . . . Times have changed. </i> Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind ...Show more
Temptation Ridge by Robyn Carr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: A\Virgin River Novel Ser.
A Netflix original series Sometimes what you want isn't what you need... Time for a new start At twenty-five, after five years caring for her mother, it's time for Shelby to leave her sheltered life and experience freedom and adventure. Time for travel, college and romance. But when she visits Virgin Ri ...Show more
The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of Teacher. The staff of St Margaret's Primary School are hanging by a thread. There's serious litigation pending, the school is due for registration, and a powerful parent named Janet Bellevue has a lot to ...Show more
Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
The Affair (TPB) by Danielle Steel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The Affair is a compelling story of mothers and sisters who are there for you when things fall apart, from Danielle Steel whose countless number one bestsellers have made her the world's favourite storyteller.A year that none of them would ever forget . . .Rose McCarthy is the legendary editor in chief ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, ...Show more
No Church in the Wild by Murray Middleton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
It's been five long years since violence erupted between young migrants and local police in Melbourne's inner west. A police-led trip to hike the Kokoda Trail hopes to rebuild relationships in the community, but as training gets underway, fresh allegations of racial profiling have everyone on a knife-ed ...Show more
Before the Storm by Di Morrissey
$14.99 AUD
$19.99 (25% off)
Category: Contemporary
Face her demons? Or run?After being double-crossed by a devious colleague, career woman Ellie Conlan quits her job on principle. With no idea what to do next, she retreats to Storm Harbour, an idyllic Victorian beach town.Ellie's grandfather runs The Storm Harbour Chronicle, the trusted local newspaper. ...Show more
The Divided Heart by Kathleen Bentley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
This is the story of a love triangle between Caroline Fischer and her husband Phil of Ulverstone Tasmania and Sahashi Kazuyoshi (Kao) of Kyoto Japan, all aged in their late 60's. Caroline and Kao met on a cruise to South East Asia both thinking this was a shipboard romance but after the voyage ended the ...Show more
Keeping Up Appearances by Tricia Stringer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Privacy is hard to maintain in Badara, the kind of small Australian country town where everyone knows everyone else's business. So discovers single mum Paige when she and her three children arrive from the city seeking refuge. Paige's only respite from child care and loneliness is the Tuesday gym club, ...Show more