Still Life by Sarah Winman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds hims ...Show more
The Offing by Benjamin Myers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and kindness ... Gorgeous' Max Porter, author of Lanny A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime' An Observer Pick for 2019 One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
The Man Who Died Twice: (The Thursday Murder Club 2) by Richard Osman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: The Thursday Murder Club
The second novel in the record-breaking number one bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, featuring the old (but far from past-it) team as they pursue a brand new mysteryIt's the following Thursday.Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He is bei ...Show more
The Thursday Murder Club: (The Thursday Murder Club 1) by Richard Osman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: The Thursday Murder Club 1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might b ...Show more
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
$18.99 AUD
Category: Teen
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary l ...Show more
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost. Desperate to ig ...Show more
Great Dog Bottom Swap by Peter Bently
$16.99 AUD
Category: Paperback Picture Books | Reading Level: 3-7
The day has arrived for the Dogs' Summer Ball. It's so high class that each dog must remove their bottom before they are allowed inside the hall. But in the middle of all the frivolity something unexpected happens and the dogs have to make a hasty exit...with or without the correct bottom!
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been runn ...Show more