The Lady in the Car with the Glasses and the Gun by Sébastien Japrisot Sébastien; Helen Weaver and Gallic Books (Translator); Gallic Books (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Voted one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels 'Classic suspenseful noir from "the French Graham Greene".' Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful -- and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian m ...Show more
Fugitive Pieces: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction by Anne Michaels
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Category: General | Reading Level: good
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astoundi ...Show more
Table For Two by Amor Towles
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Category: General
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encou ...Show more
Max Gate by Damien Wilkins
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"A witty and sentient writer"--LA Times "Wilkins can command a breathtakingly supple literary style"--The New York Times 1928: Thomas Hardy is dying in the upstairs room of Max Gate, the house he built in his beloved Dorset. Downstairs, his literary friends are locked in a bitter fight with loca ...Show more
The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan
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Category: General
With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a fast-paced, Agatha Christie-esque caper packed full of romance and suspense. With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is ...Show more
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite ...Show more
Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
In Search of a Reputation - Bastien-Lepage by Neil Miley (Preface by)
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Category: General
The book traces an art student's search for a reputation in the years following the War of 1870. France is in political and financial turmoil, the student struggles to find his way in a changing landscape that insists on art being part of the political progress to ensure the survival of a Republican for ...Show more
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She ...Show more
Dietland by Sarai Walker
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Category: General
'Part Fight Club, part feminist manifesto, an offbeat and genre-bending novel that aims high - and delivers.' - Kirkus Review'Sarai Walker has written a call to arms. Devious, subversive, delightful, Dietlandis a Scum Manifesto set to a pop music beat, and Plum Kettle is a feminist hero for the modern a ...Show more
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E. Braddon
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Category: General
Barrister Robert Audley is suspicious. His friend George Talboys recently returned a rich man from the goldfields of colonial Australia but is shattered to find that the wife he left behind has died. Now George has vanished, leaving only a note saying that he's returned to Australia. Fearing foul play, ...Show more