By Its Cover (Brunetti #23) by Donna Leon
7.99 AUD
29.99 (73% off)
Category: FICTION
By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra. When several valuable antiquari ...Show more
Catherine, Called Birdy by CUSHMAN, KAREN
15.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Set against a backdrop of life in a medieval manor, a 14-year-old girl feels trapped because her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man. She manages to send several would-be husbands packing, but then comes a man from the north--the oldest, the ugliest, and the richest.
The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
41.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father ...Show more
The Bloodletter's Daughter by Linda Lafferty
32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Novels of Old Bohemia
In 1606, the grand city of Prague hides an ugly secret: the emperor's bastard son, Don Julius, is afflicted with a madness that pushes the prince to unspeakable depravity. Banished to a remote corner of Bohemia, Don Julius comes under the care of a bloodletter who works to purge the vicious humors cours ...Show more
Sex and the City - Abacus 40th edition by Candace Bushnell
14.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
'"Relationships in New York are about detachment, so how do you get attached when you decide you want to?" "Honey, you leave town."' Meet Carrie, Miranda, Sam and their stylish friends. Successful, attractive, thirty-something career women living the high life in New York; blazing a glorious cocktail tr ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: The\Austen Project Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A modern re-imagining of the Gothic Classic Northanger Abbey by the bestselling crime author Val McDermid. The second book in The Austen Project. Seventeen-year-old Catherine 'Cat' Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she y ...Show more
The Broken Road - From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor
49.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from his fans; bu ...Show more
The Tying of Threads (Woody Creek #6) by Joy Dettman
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Georgie - Independent and spirited, Georgie is her mother's daughter through and through. But after a house fire both takes the life of her sister, Margot, and burns her home to the ground, Georgie is lost. She flees town with nothing but a cardboard box and the determination to be somebody,anybody, els ...Show more
Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge, drink gin, have parties - and everywhere they go they are accompanied by the glamorous, irrepressible Fife. She is Ernest's lover. Hadley is the ...Show more
Ripples on a Pond (#5 Woody Creek) by Joy Dettman
19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Woody Creek
The old timber town of Woody Creek has a way of getting under people's skin...But as the clock ticks over to 1970, Georgie's determined that the new decade will be the one that sees her finally break free of it. For Cara, Woody Creek will forever be tied to a devastating mistake that cannot be undone. S ...Show more
Food, Sex & Money by Liz Byrski
18.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
It's almost forty years since the three ex-convent girls left school and went their separate ways, but finally they meet again.Bonnie, rocked by the death of her husband, is back in Australia after decades in Europe, and is discovering that while financial security eliminates worry, it doesn't guarantee ...Show more