The Memory Cathedral : A secret history of Leonardo da Vinci by Jack Dann
$19.75 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In a masterpiece of historical fantasy that triumphantly melds fact and fiction, Jack Dann offers his own thrilling secret history of a lost year in Leonardo da Vinci's life. He begins with a wildly imaginative bit of speculation: what if Leonardo, who was obsessed with flight and who conceived brillian ...Show more
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'As natural as the grass grows.' - Chinua Achebe '[Dangarembga] is a wonderful creator of character.' - Doris Lessing '[A] Masterpiece.' - New York Times 'Searing and enlightening.' Sefi Atta, author of Everything Good Will Come. In this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channe ...Show more
After Everything by Suellen Dainty
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A small group of friends in their late fifties discover that life can still surprise them, and even present chances for new beginnings. Recently divorced, Penny moves to a quaint town in France and renounces sex - until she meets an irresistible philosophy professor. Meanwhile unmarried Peter falls head ...Show more
Come in Spinner by Dymphna Cusack; Florence James; Rachael Blake (Read by); John Howard
$19.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Set in a salon at the Hotel South Pacific in wartime Sydney, this novel revolves around the lives and loves of three women - Deb, Guinea and Claire. Their romances are futher complicated by the tension of war, with American troops in occupation and where anything could be obtained for a price.
River House by Janita Cunnington
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
THE BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2016! The River House is a spellbinding debut novel, resonant of childhoods past and the beauty of the Australian countryside. It is the late 1940s, and the Broody River runs through a maze of sandbanks into the Coral Sea. On its southern bank lies the holiday town of Baroodibah. B ...Show more
The Palace of Tears by Alev Lytle Croutier
$21.90 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In the Ottoman Empire lived Kukla, who had one blue eye and one yellow, and spoke both French and Turkish. In 1868 Paris, Casimir falls in love with a face in a portrait - a woman with one blue eye and one yellow. Two people, worlds apart, are destined to dream the same dream, as East meets West in the ...Show more
Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A brilliantly original debut about a love affair cut short, and how lonely it is to live inside a secret -- for fans of Sally Rooney, Sheila Heti, and Ottessa Moshfegh. Ana Kelly can deal with death. As an estate lawyer, an unfortunate part of her day-to-day is phone calls from the next of kin informin ...Show more