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  • Lessons

    the new novel from the author of Atonement

    by Ian McEwan ...
    **Discover the Sunday Times bestselling new novel from Ian McEwan.Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers**.While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • All That’s Left Unsaid

    by Tracey Lien ...
    ‘A complex, harrowing look into the impacts on trauma on a community, written with the urgent pace of a thriller and peppered with moments of levity’ Vogue Australia'An unforgettable debut, utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping. I just loved it!' Liane Moriarty‘Poignant and impeccable storytelling’ Oprah Daily‘An extraordinary work of Australian literature ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

    The most powerful, important historical novel of 2022

    by Erin Litteken ...
    Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Beekeeper of Aleppo."A powerfully moving debut . . . Ukraine’s tragic history painfully echoes its current crisis, and on every page the Ukrainian spirit shines out, unbowed, unbent and unbroken.” Kate Quinn, author of The Diamond EyeIn the 1930s, Stalin’s activists marched through the Soviet Union, espousing the greatness of collective ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mother: A Novel

    A Novel

    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    “Buck has never done better work than this. By a great gift of intuition she has entered into the mind, heart and spirit of the Chinese peasant woman and revealed the permanent values of life.” —*TheTimes Literary Supplement***Dickensian in its epic sweep, one of Buck’s finest novels centers on an unnamed peasant woman in pre-revolutionary China. Without warning, her restless husband abandons her. ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reading List

    by Sara Nisha Adams ...
    *A finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards for Fiction, discover this year’s most uplifting and heart-warming debut*‘Absolutely gorgeous’ RUTH WARE‘The most heartfelt read of the summer’ SHONDALAND‘A joyful, uplifting read!’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘A captivating debut’ HEIDI SWAIN_________________________________________________________________A faded list.<str... ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD $2.99 AUD

  • The Perfumist of Paris

    by Alka Joshi ...
    Book 3 - The Jaipur Trilogy
    From the author of THE HENNA ARTIST.The final chapter in Alka Joshi's New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha's budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past.Paris, 1974. Radha is now thirty-two and living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

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  • A Carol for the Dead – Illaun Bowe Crime Thriller #1

    A Gripping Irish Mystery of Murder, Intrigue and Conspiracy

    by Patrick Dunne ...
    Uncover the deadly secrets hidden behind impenetrable walls in A Carol for the Dead, the first Illaun Bowe crime thriller by bestselling master of Irish crime fiction Patrick DunneDecember 16, dead midwinter. A light dusting of snow is falling over Newgrange, an innocent white to cover the dark soil. A small group is huddled around a shallow grave, dug out of the earth, one of them reaching out to ... Read more

    $2.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daisy Jones and The Six

    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of CARRIE SOTO IS BACK

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid ...
    SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH AND CAMILA MORRONETHE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and the bestselling MALIBU RISING'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember ... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Across the Nightingale Floor: Book 1 Tales of the Otori

    by Lian Hearn ...
    Book 1 - Tales of the Otori
    FOUR MILLION COPIES SOLD. In 40 languages. One of the most thrilling series of our time. Enter the feudal world of the Otori - filled with magic, treachery and intrigue - inspired by medieval Japan and created by acclaimed Australian author, Lian Hearn.'The best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYIn his fortress at ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • Grass for His Pillow: Book 2 Tales of the Otori

    by Lian Hearn ...
    Book 2 - Tales of the Otori
    FOUR MILLION COPIES SOLD. In 40 languages. One of the most thrilling series of our time. Enter the feudal world of the Otori - filled with magic, treachery and intrigue - inspired by medieval Japan and created by acclaimed Australian author, Lian Hearn.'The best story of magic, love, sex, revenge and suspense to have come this way since Philip Pullman.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYIn the ancient lands of ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • The Promise

    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021

    by Damon Galgut ...
    WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021One family. One promise. One chance to tell a new story.'A moving, brilliantly told family epic' Elizabeth DayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn a farm outside Pretoria, the Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least their treatment of the Black woman who has worked for t... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Miss Benson's Beetle

    An uplifting story of female friendship against the odds

    by Rachel Joyce ...
    WINNER OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE | BEST PUBLISHED NOVELWOMAN & HOME BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The perfect escape novel for our troubled times.' PATRICK GALE**It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • The Hungry Blade

    A Roy Hawkins Thriller

    by Lawrence Dudley ...
    The new, fast-paced, WWII-era spy thriller from the author of New York StationForty modern masterpieces are found concealed on a neutral ship in international waters sixteen months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Their provenance is sketchy and their final destination unknown. The Royal Navy suspects the works are “degenerate art” seized by the Nazis and shipped across the Atlantic to create ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD $4.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Passage North

    by Anuk Arudpragasam ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother''s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Cousins

    by Patricia Grace ...
    This is a stunning novel about tradition and change, about whanau and its struggle to survive, about the place of women in a shifting world. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. Moving from the forties to the present, from the country to the ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Cemetery Dance

    An Agent Pendergast Novel

    by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child ...
    series AGENT PENDERGAST
    'A blockbuster...a lot of fun' WASHINGTON POSTFBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast - recently returned to New York - and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta find themselves investigating the murder of a friend when reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora are brutally attacked in their apartment. The assailant is identified by eyewitnesses as their strange, sinister neighbour - a man who, by all ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • To The Strongest

    'Terrific series' Conn Iggulden

    by Robert Fabbri ...
    Book 1 - Alexander's Legacy
    'An excellent new series by the consistently brilliant Robert Fabbri' Sunday Sport**_____________________________Let the battles begin...**'I foresee great struggles at my funeral games.'Babylon, 323 BC: Alexander the Great is dead, leaving behind him the largest, and most fearsome, empire the world has ever seen. As his final breaths fade in a room of seven bodyguards, Alexander refuses to name a ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • The Three Paradises

    Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Bernard Cornwell

    by Robert Fabbri ...
    Book 2 - Alexander's Legacy
    'This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable' CONN IGGULDENAn empire in turmoil. A throne for the taking.Alexander the Great's sudden and unexpected death has left the largest, most formidable empire the world has ever seen leaderless. As the fight to take control descends into ruthless scheming and bloody battles, no one - man, woman or child - is safe.As wars on land and ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • The Girls of Ennismore

    A heart-rending Irish saga

    by Patricia Falvey ...
    Ireland, 1900. Two girls meet. They are from vastly different worlds, but will be united in friendship through loves, losses and wars. A sweeping, heartrending saga for fans of Diney Costeloe and Rosie Clarke.It's the early years of the twentieth century, and Victoria Bell and Rosie Killeen are best friends. Growing up in rural Ireland's County Mayo, their friendship is forged against the glorious ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD

  • Arminius

    The Limits of Empire

    by Robert Fabbri ...
    One man's greatest victory.Rome's greatest defeat.A.D. 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius of the Cherusci led a confederation of six Germanic tribes in the annihilation of three Roman legions. Deep in the forest almost twenty thousand men were massacred without mercy; fewer than two hundred ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD

  • An Empty Throne

    'Hugely enjoyable' Conn Iggulden

    by Robert Fabbri ...
    Book 3 - Alexander's Legacy
    'This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable' CONN IGGULDEN*FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE VESPASIAN SERIESThe third instalment in a huge, bloody and brutal new series from Robert Fabbri, set after the death of Alexander the Great. Who will win the fight to control the largest empire the world has ever seen? Let the battles begin...The cause of Alexander the Great... ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Matchmaking at Port Willow

    An uplifting, beautifully romantic read that will warm your heart

    by Kiley Dunbar ...
    Book 2 - Port Willow Bay
    ‘I absolutely fell in love with Port Willow and its gorgeous residents...Simply wonderful.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader ReviewBeatrice found love at Port Willow – now she’s helping othersSince arriving in the Scottish Highlands village of Port Willow six months ago while nursing a broken heart, Beatrice Halliday has turned her life around.Now she’s running The Princess and the Pea Inn, madly in love with ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Woman in the White Kimono

    (A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick)

    by Ana Johns ...
    A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pickInspired by true stories, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home.'A book that is meant to be savoured and re-read' Renita D'Silva, author of The Forgotten DaughterJapan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nak... ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD $4.99 AUD

  • The Mirror and the Light (The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 3)

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    Book 3 - The Wolf Hall Trilogy
    The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020‘Mantel has taken us to the dark heart of history…and what a show’ The Times‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can yo... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD