The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a baggin ...Show more
Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
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
A December to Remember by Jenny Bayliss
$27.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Three bickering half sisters.One unique antiques shop.The coziest holiday season of their lives.Wildly different half sisters Maggie, Simone, and Star have hardly seen one another since their sprightly summers at Rowan Thorp, their eccentric father Augustus's home. Known for his bustling approach to the ...Show more
Other Houses by Paddy O'Reilly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Lily works as a cleaner. She moves through houses in inner-city Melbourne, unseen, scrubbing away the daily residue of other people's privilege. Her partner Janks works the line in a local food factory. With every pay check they inch further away from their former world of poverty and addiction.Lily and ...Show more
Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
'I loved every page of this funny, warm, delightful novel!' LIANE MORIARTY You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and family. Things haven't gone well for Simon Larsen lately. He adores his wife, Tansy, and his children, but since his business fai ...Show more
Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
In the late 1960s, Pop artist Andy Warhol set out to make an unconventional novel by following a cast of his most famous characters around New York, recording their conversations with his tape recorder. The twenty-four one-hour tapes were transcribed by four women- The Velvet Underground's drummer Maure ...Show more
Mr Carver's Whale by Lyn Hughes
$14.99 AUD
$29.99 (50% off)
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Our story begins when a sea chest of books is delivered to Antonio Mateus João Carvalho Cabral, the youngest son of the Carvalhos family on the whaling island of Pico, in the Azores ... but that's just the start of this darkly charming story of love, death, desire, atonement ... and whales. This is the ...Show more
After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel It's an author's job to create a new world in the pages of a book. But when lines start to blur and reality begins to fade, getting lost in a story can be dangerous - especially if you can't find your way back... Madeleine d'Leon doesn't know where Ed ...Show more
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him until a chance encounter changes everything. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Orego ...Show more
The Work Wives by Rachael Johns
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
How well do you really know the people you work with? For work wives Debra and Quinn, it's a case of opposites attract. They are each other's lifelines as they navigate office politics and jobs that pay the bills but don't inspire them.Outside work, they are also friends, but where Quinn is addicted to ...Show more
Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast by Karina May
$34.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
What if the person getting you through the hardest time in your life is someone you've never met? Maxine 'Max' Mayberry, an ad executive with writing ambitions, is holed up in a friend's apartment after discovering her long-term boyfriend in bed with another woman. If that wasn't bad enough, Max has rec ...Show more
Circe by Madeline Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe g ...Show more