Briefs Encountered by Julian Clary
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
A haunting story of love and obsession. Noel Coward is the toast of twenties society.a brilliant playwright, composer and entertainer whose bon homie, witty songs and pithy lines hide a secret. Goldenhurst, his house in Kent, provides a refuge. A place where he can be himself. And more importantly wh ...Show more
Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother's unconditional love. At school he passes every test that is set for him, but he remains wary of his fellow pupils, especially th ...Show more
Echoes From A Distant Land by Frank Coates
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Wangira is caught between the traditions of his Kikuyu tribe and the disturbing new ideas of the missionaries. When, as a young warrior, he saves the life of a wealthy American photographer, he is offered the chance of a new life far away in the white man's world. Between the wars, Kenya is a land of bo ...Show more
How it Feels by Brendan Cowell
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
An old friend, a best friend, a first love and the dreamer Neil Cronk who connects them all. Four schoolfriends are on the verge of adulthood and the next 12 hours will change the course of their lives ...Friendships will be broken, virginity lost, love unleashed and secrets buried. A decade later, one ...Show more
The Templar Throne by Paul Christopher
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
The hidden hand which rules history . . . Army Ranger John Holliday has made it his life's mission to unlock the secrets of the ruthless, ancient Templar Order, who are as renowned for their hidden wealth and power as for their desperate secrecy. In The Templar Throne his quest has him crisscrossi ...Show more
Gold by Chris Cleave
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Usually, this is where we'd tell you what this book is about. But with Chris Cleave, it's a bit different. Because if you've read The Other Hand or Incendiary, you'll know that what his books are about is only part of the story - what really matters is how they make you feel. Gold is about the limit ...Show more
The Architecture of Song by Gary Crew
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
'I lived many lives beneath that piano ...I heard ten thousand stories in that space. There I was privileged to observe, to gather -- and not only gather, to concentrate within myself -- so much that is usually denied a child of my age. As a result, I have, you might say, grown.' So says Augustus Trump ...Show more
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This used to be America, this river crossing in the ten-month stretch of land, this sea-to-sea. It used to be the safest place on earth. America as we know it has fragmented. Its machines have stopped, its communities have splintered, its history is virtually forgotten, and the great migration has start ...Show more
The Chase by Candida Clark
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Set on the first day of illegal hunting in England, Candida Clark's new novel is a gripping story of jealousy, revenge, class and marriage. An idyllic-seeming gathering of family and friends is blown apart by a husband's jealous rage; false scents lead to bloodshed; love, ultimately - even the memory of ...Show more
A Stranger in My Street by Deborah Burrows
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
It's January 1943. Australia is at war and Perth is buzzing. US troops have permanently docked in the city in what local men refer to bitterly as the American occupation, and Perth women are having the time of their lives. The Americans have money, accents like movie stars, smart tailored uniforms a ...Show more