The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller 'A novel of breathtaking scope' Guardian 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration c ...Show more
When Dogs Cry by Markus Zusak
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Cameron Wolfe is hungry. He's sick of being the filthy, torn, half-smiling, half-scowling underdog. He's finally met a girl. He's got words in his spirit. And now he's out to prove that there's nothing more beautiful than an underdog who's willing to stand up. A tough but poetic street story.
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
"In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean ...Show more
Mr. Rosenblum's List: Or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman by Natasha Solomons
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
List item 2: Never speak German on the upper decks of London buses. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. He's writing a list so he can become a Very English Gentleman. List item 41: An Englishman buys his marmalade from Fortnum and Mason. It's 1952, and despite his best ...Show more
The Desperate Bride's Diet Club by Alison Sherlock
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Violet Saunders is astounded when her boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes. At size 18-20, she can't think why anyone would want to marry her and euphoria quickly turns to horror as she contemplates squeezing herself into a wedding dress. When a leaflet from dieting club New You! drops through h ...Show more
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, a ...Show more
The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks - with a passion that would change their lives for ever. But life would force them apart. Years later, the lines they had drawn between past and present are about to slip ...Called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who on ...Show more
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A radical departure from her previous novels but nonetheless a return to the form she showed in her acclaimed Red Tent ($ 27.99). Here she explores small-town Massachusetts in the 19th century: the black African woman who dresses as a man, the carpenter who doubles as a dentist, the child who arrived wi ...Show more
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, she goes in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler - the man Rose credits with rescuing her from ...Show more
Messengers Angel (#2 Lost Angels) by Heather Killough-Walden
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: The Lost Angels
For fans of J. R. Ward, Nalini Singh and Charlaine Harris, the second novel in The Lost Angels from New York Times bestselling author Heather Killough-Walden. Are you ready to meet the angels of your dreams? Gabriel has always called Scotland his true home. Nevertheless, he is stunned when his archess s ...Show more
Tully by Paullina Simons
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The astonishing debut novel from international number one bestselling author Paullina Simons, beautifully repackaged Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like. But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms ...Show more
A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin
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Category: General Fiction | Series: A Song of Ice and Fire | Reading Level: very good
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance--beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys ha ...Show more