The Iron Necklace by Giles Waterfield
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The society wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. Thomas and Irene settle into marital life in Berlin, until their lives are shattered by the outbreak of the First World War. While Irene struggles to survive in a ...Show more
Fix You by Carrie Elks
17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
London, 31st December 1999. At a party to toast the new millennium, Hanna meets Richard. He is a gorgeous, wealthy New Yorker. She is a self-assured, beautiful Londoner with no interest in clean-cut American men. They are from different worlds and have nothing in common, except for their instant - and m ...Show more
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Poe, she brought a distinctly contemporary acuteness to her prolific body of noir fic ...Show more
Sanders & Bones-The African Adventures: # 5 Sandi, the King-Maker & Bones of the River by Edgar Wallace
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Colonial adventures in a 6 volume collection set on the 'Dark Continent' In the first years of the twentieth century much of the African continent remained dark, mysterious and still full of strange and exotic possibilities. The British Empire ruled over vast areas of trackless plain and dense equatoria ...Show more
The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A haunting story of a woman's desire in a time of turbulence.Alys joins the nunnery to escape hardship and poverty but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. With nothing to support her but her looks, her magic and her own instinctive cunning, ...Show more
Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In A Window Opens, beloved books editor at Glamour magazine Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays ma ...Show more
Back to Moscow by Guillermo Erades
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A sharply observed novel about an individual and the city that shapes him in the vein of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station, Back to Moscow is distinctive, dazzling, witty and ultimately haunting. Months after his arrival in Moscow, doctoral student Martin hasn't written a word of his thesis on Rus ...Show more
Before the War by Fay Weldon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Spoils of War
Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty-four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse in those times - intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to ...Show more
Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
28.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
?AyÅe Kulin is a clever writer. She draws the reader into the story of the life and loves of a Turkish family in wartime, and by the time the reader realizes that she has also cranked up the tension with a rescue plot, it is too late to put the book down unfinished. For aficionados of wartime novels, a ...Show more
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Dirty, drunk, unloved, and unloving, Hector Loursat has been a bitter recluse for eighteen long years--ever since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child to run off with another man. Once a successful lawyer, Loursat now guzzles burgundy and buries himself in books, taking little notice of his te ...Show more
The Beekeeper's Secret by Josephine Moon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Maria knew about guilt. It was a stubborn, pervasive and toxic emotion, and incredibly difficult to shake. Especially if really, deep down, you didn't think you deserved to let it go.'..Maria Lindsey is content. She spends her solitary days tending her bees and creating delicious honey products to fund ...Show more
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house, dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laur ...Show more