The Paris Cooking School by Sophie Beaumont
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Life rarely serves up the perfect dish, but second chances are always on the menu There’s nothing quite so beautiful as Paris in the spring; and when you add in the chance to learn the French way of food, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, who can resist? Not Gabi Picabea or Kate Evans who have com ...Show more
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The Times bestseller by the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale."An intricate story about war, family, secrets and,yes, wood ... An engaging, satisfying read" The Times "So cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic momentum as it zeroes in on its conclusion" Scotsma ...Show more
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book... 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of wome ...Show more
You Are Here by David Nicholls
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone.Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. ...Show more
The Deed by Susannah Begbie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Now that's the way to bury your old man ... he sank into his Jason recliner, wincing. A burial: a body wrapped in handwoven cloth, women dancing and wailing. Too much, in Tom's opinion, but at least they were mourning. To hell with that, at least they showed up.' Tom Edwards is dying, and cranky. He's ...Show more
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles together. We took up Christianity together. We entered into new citizenships together. We became wage workers together. We lived with generations upon generations stacked in fibro houses ...Show more
Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Leap comes an unforgettable new novel about fathers and sons, and the damage that can ripple through generations. 'Frank feared a reckoning, but what he feared more was that all the men in his family were cursed. And that however hard he tried to be good, h ...Show more
The Wartime Book Club (PB) by Kate Thompson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey is known as the land of milk and honey. For best friends Bea Rose (the local postwoman) and Grace Le Motte (who works in the island's only library) it becomes the frontline to everyday resistance when thei ...Show more
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A witty, profound and painfully relatable debut novel exploring solitude, desire, and the allure of chasing something that promises nothing. Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditioned newsroom by day and kicking around Sydney ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín, Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
Audrey's Gone AWOL by Annie de Monchaux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It’s never too late to reinvent your life Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family life for the best part of 40 years, but lately she’s become aware that she lost herself somewhere between 'I do' and the weekly shop. Worse, her academic husband Simon has found time for romance – just not w ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more