Starlight Cafe by Rob Alexander; Renato Waru (Cover Design by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
This is Jack's story. Jack grew up on a rough council estate in London and has hit a rough patch with his business going to the wall. His Uncle Stan is ready to retire and suggests that Jack take over his long-standing Starlight Cafe. With the help of his partner and friends, Jack transforms the rundown ...Show more
An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called 'the most underrated novelist of the century'.'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' - Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murd ...Show more
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Aw ...Show more
Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
Things haven't gone well for Simon Larsen lately. He adores his wife and children, but since his business failed and he lost the family home, he can't seem to get off the couch. His larger-than-life in-laws, the Schnabels, won't get off his case. To keep everyone happy, Simon needs to do one little job: ...Show more
Mr Smith to You: A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. by Kerry Taylor
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
Inspired by the true story of Bill Smith (1886-1975), who may have been Australia's first trans jockey. A moving, tender debut novel about identity, solitude and the human spirit. A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. For most of his 76 years, Bill Smi ...Show more
Furies - Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed by Margaret Atwood; Ali Smith; Emma Donoghue; Kirsty Logan; Chibundu Onuzo; Caroline O'Donoghue; Linda Grant; Susie Boyt; Stella Duffy; Kamila Shamsie; Helen Oyeyemi; Rachel Seiffert; C. N. Lester; Claire Kohda; Eleanor Crewes
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW AND ORIGINAL STORIES by Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O'Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeymi, Rach ...Show more
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God's Time is an extraordinary novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning.
The Girl on the Cliff by Lucinda Riley
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
A beautiful drama spanning decades, from international Number One bestselling author Lucinda Riley Why has a secret from 1914 caused a century of heartache? Troubled by recent loss, Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland and the arms of her loving family. And it is here, on a cliff edge, that she first mee ...Show more
Sanctuary by Garry Disher
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
Grace is a thief: a good one. She was taught by experts and she's been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items--stamps, watches--and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it's a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It's not the life s ...Show more
The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
The charming international bestseller about books and the power of reading. There's a book written for every one of us... Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, care ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
Scar Town by Tristan Bancks
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
A missing father. A drowned town. A buried secret. Three friends on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth.Seven years after Old Scarborough was drowned, a house is emerging from the water. Will and his friends Dar and Juno dare each other to explore it.But when they find bones - and a stash of cash - ...Show more