Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882-83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localised histo ...Show more
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
A witty exploration of family, money, love and heartbreak. THE MUST-READ DEBUT OF 2023 This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan- one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connec ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Award Winners
Winner - 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award Winner - 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecologica ...Show more
Prettier if She Smiled More by Toni Jordan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
One perfect life. One disastrous week. The brand-new novel from bestselling, acclaimed and beloved author Toni Jordan As the eldest child in a single-parent family, Kylie's always had more important things on her mind than smiling. Controlling her job, her home, her romantic life - and most importantly, ...Show more
Private Scandals by Nora Roberts
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
Deanna Reynolds had it all planned: She'd start out in the newsroom of a small Chicago station, then move up to host her own talk show. When her mentor Angela Perkins leaves for New York, Deanna risks everything for the chance to replace Angela on the air. The network's sexiest journalist, Finn Riley, a ...Show more
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: good
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA National Book Award-winning AuthorPip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that with $130,000 in student debt she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother is hazardous. She hasn't a clue who h ...Show more
Queen of Swords (#5 Wilderness) by Sara Donati
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Series: Into the Wilderness Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic tale of love and adventure that has captured the hearts of millions continues against the volatile backdrop of a city on the brink of war. Shifting from the steamy shores of the Caribbean to New Orleans, Queen of Swordspicks up the story of Hannah Bonner, the beautiful half-Mohawk daughter of f ...Show more
Resistance by Jacinta Halloran
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature | Reading Level: very good
A surprising, insightful and layered work of literature that explores family and secrets, and the ethics of mental health care As a family therapist, Nina is the ultimate listener. Yet this is of little use with her latest clients, the Agostinos, who have been mandated to see her after stealing a car an ...Show more
Ripples on a Pond (#5 Woody Creek) by Joy Dettman
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Category: Modern Literature | Series: Woody Creek
The old timber town of Woody Creek has a way of getting under people's skin...But as the clock ticks over to 1970, Georgie's determined that the new decade will be the one that sees her finally break free of it. For Cara, Woody Creek will forever be tied to a devastating mistake that cannot be undone. S ...Show more
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...Show more
Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
Introducing an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Molly Schmidt, winner of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Salt River Road is a compelling coming-of-age novel about grief and healing set in a small town in the 1970s. In the aftermath of their mother's death, the Tetley siblings' live ...Show more
Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Literature
Charlie's skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousness--that sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes from Eleanor's loving gaze. Her throat taut with tears, she swallowed. 'You're a good sister, Eleanor." ''Don't say that.' After two years of lo ...Show more