Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions by Charles Dickens
$21.95 AUD
Category: General
Named after the man who delivered him as a baby, Doctor Marigold is a poor hawker who, after a dreadful turn of events, finds happiness with his adopted daughter Sophy. She is a deaf mute, and to help her learn to read and communicate, Doctor Marigold 'prescribes' her various stories, which he collects ...Show more
Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
Raised by his father in the dying town of Paradise Flats, Jack McGreary has learned to live by his wits. The year is 1939. Drought has turned America's heartland into a dust bowl, and the world is on the brink of war. Jack's father wants him to head north to Canada to sign up in the fight against Fascis ...Show more
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
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Category: General
In The Invention of Everything Else, Samantha Hunt fictionalizes the story of the Serbian-born scientist Nikola Tesla, inventor of radio and creator of AC electricity, a notoriously marginalized genius whose wild eccentricities, including obsessive-compulsive disorder and germ-phobia, have made him a co ...Show more
Vision in White (Bride Quartet #1) by Nora Roberts
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Bride Quartet ; bk. 1
Childhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmaline have formed a very successful wedding planning business together but, despite helping thousands of happy couples to organise the biggest day of their lives, all four women are unlucky in love. Photographer Mackensie Elliot has suffered a tough ch ...Show more
The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins by Kiran Desai
$9.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives a ...Show more
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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Category: General
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, ...Show more
Maralinga by Judy Nunn
$21.95 AUD
Category: General
During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided - without its people's knowledge. A British airbase in the middle of nowhere; an atomic weapons testing ground; an army of raw youth led by powerful, ambitious ...Show more
Old Enemies by Michael Dobbs
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Harry Jones braces himself for a tense, exhilarating race against time in Michael Dobbs' superb new thriller. In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owne ...Show more
Amandine by Marlena de Blasi
$27.99 AUD
Category: General
'A classic, expertly wrought novel of love, loss, and tangled loyalties, Amandine is also a banquet of sumptuous imagery and delicious historical detail.' - Chandra Prasad, author of On Borrowed Wings Marlena de Blasi, the bestselling author of A Thousand Days in Venice, brings her luminous prose to the ...Show more
Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This is a masterly work from one of our greatest writers. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife ...Show more
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
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Category: General
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japa ...Show more