Men, Money and Chocolate: What More Could There be to Life? by Menna van Praag
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Category: FICTION
Maya spends her days dreaming of a perfect life; a life filled with love, success and pleasure. She tries to find fulfilment in the pursuit of men and money, and when this doesn't work she looks for comfort in chocolate. But this just leaves her feeling empty and lost. Then Maya meets a mysterious stran ...Show more
The People in the Photo by Hélène Gestern; Emily Boyce (Translator); Ros Schwartz (Translator)
21.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
"Every note of the characters' correspondence rings true."--Le Nouvel Observateur "A page-turning novel with a skilfully woven plot."--Page des Libraires "Rich in deftly turned prose and subtle character study."--Sud-Ouest "A wonderful book about the archaeology of memory."--Le Magazine Littéraire "Ele ...Show more
The Foundling Boy by Michel Déon
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Category: FICTION
It is 1919. On a summer's night in Normandy, a new-born baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert and Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, and decide to raise him as their own, though his parentage remains a mystery. Though Jean's life is never dull, he gr ...Show more
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wr ...Show more
Seafront Tea Rooms by Vanessa Greene
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Category: FICTION
The Seafront Tea Rooms is a peaceful hideaway, away from the bustle of the seaside, and in this quiet place a group of women find exactly what they've been searching for. Charismatic journalist Charlotte is on a mission to scope out Britain's best tea rooms. She knows she's found something special in th ...Show more
The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
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Category: FICTION
Some call the prize ring a nursery for vice ...Born into a brothel, Ruth's future looks bleak until she catches the eye of Mr Dryer. A rich Bristol merchant and enthusiast of the ring, he trains gutsy Ruth as a puglist. Soon she rules the blood-spattered sawdust at the infamous Hatchet Inn. Dryer's wife ...Show more
Evergreen Falls by Kimberley Freeman
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Category: FICTION
1926: Violet Armstrong is one of the few remaining members of staff working at the grand Evergreen Spa Hotel as it closes down over winter. Only a handful of guests are left, including the heir to a rich grazing family, his sister and her suave suitor. When a snowstorm moves in, the hotel is cut off and ...Show more
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: good
PRE LOVED - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The #1 New York Times Bestseller On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Ni ...Show more
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: good
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 b>'You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story ... fantastic' ZADIE SMITHak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his parents it was obvious from the way his fathe ...Show more
The Reindeer People (#1 Reindeer People) by Megan Lindholm
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Category: FICTION
A voyage of discovery into the life of a remote aboriginal community in the Siberian Arctic, where the reindeer has been a part of daily life since Palaeolithic times. The Reindeer People is the first in a series of reissues of Megan Lindholm's (Robin Hobb) classic backlist titles. It is set in the hars ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
'He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home.' Perth, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Frank, survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. In ...Show more
Breakfast with the Borgias by D.B.C. Pierre
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Category: FICTION
'Hell is other people.' It is a chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside wor ...Show more