Resistance is Futile by Jenny T. Colgan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Connie thinks she's never met anyone quite like Luke Beith before. She has no idea how right she is. As a high-ranking mathematician in a male-dominated field - with bright red hair - Connie's used to being considered a little unusual. But she's nowhere near as peculiar as Luke, who is recruited to work ...Show more
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Marian Sutro Ser.
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluen ...Show more
Plague and Cholera by Patrick Deville
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Paris, May 1940. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le Bourget airport, on the last flight out, sits Dr Alexandre Yersin, his gaze politely turned away from his fellow passengers with their jewels sewn into their luggage. He is too old for the combat ahead, and besides he has already saved millions of li ...Show more
Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A triumph: spellbinding, profound and almost problematically addictive.... Morally complex, atmospheric, romantic and psychologically deep, The Paying Guests is an astonishing achievement and a notable Booker omission." --Daily Express (UK)The year is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disill ...Show more
Tightrope by Simon Mawer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is now back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. De-briefed by the same shadowy branch of the secret service that sent her to Paris to extract a French atomic scientist, Marian is now plunged into the cold war. Simon Mawer's s ...Show more
Girl at War by Sara Novic
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best friend, Luka, helps take care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But when civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, football games and school lessons are supplanted ...Show more
Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Killing Monica Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame and even the meaning of life itself, when a famous writer must resort to faking her own death in order to get her life back from her most infamous creation - Monica. With her trademark humour and style, Ki ...Show more
Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Some moments can change your life for ever. Have you ever wondered, what if...? A man is walking down a country lane. A woman, cycling towards him, swerves to avoid a dog. On that moment, their future hinges. There are three possible outcomes, three small decisions that could determine the rest of their ...Show more
Amy Snow by Tracy Rees
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition. 'A sparkling and compelling mystery. Amy Snow captured our hearts from the very first page' Richard and Judy. Abandoned on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy is taken in at nearby Hatville Court. But the masters and servants of the grand est ...Show more
Vorrh by Brian Catling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy
In B. Catling's twisting, poetic narrative, Bakelite robots lie broken - their hard shells cracked by human desire - and an inquisitive Cyclops waits for his keeper and guardian, growing in all directions. Beyond the colonial city of Essenwald lies the Vorrh, the forest which sucks souls and wipes minds ...Show more
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 The artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of attention paid her by the New York art world, conducts an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. Their success seems to prove her point, but there's a sting in the ...Show more