A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers by Lucy Scholes
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedom ...Show more
A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From the author of the New York Times bestseller City on FireA Granta Best of Young American Novelist 2017 'A young author of boundless and unflagging talents' New York TimesWe can all agree on this much, Marnie thought- nobody saw the Hungate divorce coming. In the privacy of her own mind, she saw them ...Show more
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
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Category: General Fiction
The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when ...Show more
A Keeper by Graham Norton
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Category: General Fiction
*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A compelling and moving story, expertly told, that will draw you in and keep you in its grip until the last page.' DAILY EXPRESS 'Magnificent ... his writing is evocative and perfect. His grasp of human loneliness and longing ...Show more
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success "Clever, chilling, and beautifully paced; a study of inner corrosion that Patricia Highsmith herself could not have done better." -- The Times (London) Maurice Swift is handso ...Show more
A Letter of Mary: A Mary Russell Novel by Laurie R. King
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Category: General Fiction
August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the cou ...Show more
A Million Aunties by Alecia McKenzie
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Category: General Fiction
'An elegantly written and emotionally engrossing work of fiction.' Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, OtherAn emotional, tender and funny novel from award-winning author Alecia McKenzie that asks, what does family mean to you?Seeking solitude after a personal tragedy upends ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing writing on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial indepe ...Show more
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in hi ...Show more
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
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Category: General Fiction
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself ...Show more
A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott
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Category: General Fiction
'The most exquisite story of heroism, deception, love and treachery you'll find this year.' Simon Mayo'This is a rich vein for fiction, and Scott does it more than justice, with this beautifully imagined, beautifully written, smart, sophisticated - but fiercely suspenseful - thriller.' Lee Child*A Treac ...Show more
A Wild and True Relation by Kim Sherwood
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Category: General Fiction
'Enlivens the standard tale of swashbuckling adventure, adding feminist spice ... Rich and immersive' SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH'Remarkable' HILARY MANTEL'A vivid, narrative-packed splice of historical fiction' DAILY MAILA Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1 ...Show more