A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. "Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding". Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Chri ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
The Opposite of Success by Eleanor Elliott Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
Wickedly sharp and absurdly funny, The Opposite of Success introduces a sensational new voice to remind us that failure is always an option. All Lorrie wants is to get promoted, accept her body and end global warming. By Friday. Is that really too much to ask? Council employee Lorrie Hope has a great ...Show more
Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
A gripping, propulsive and brilliantly original debut by award-winning investigative journalist and writer Louise Milligan. She wonders if they have discovered she is missing yet? Has it broken as a story? Who has been assigned to cover it? Have they started spooling through her social media to pull out ...Show more
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
It's not just secrets buried at Wild Meadows. For as long as they can remember, Claudia, Margo and Jackie have been told how lucky they are. Rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother on an idyllic farming estate, they were given an elusive second chance of a happy family life. ...Show more
A Rule Against Murder: The fourth Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery, soon to be a major TV series starring Alfred Molina! by Louise Penny
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Chief Inspector Gamache Ser.
'No one does atmospheric quite like Louise Penny' ELLY GRIFFITHSThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.It's the height of summer, and the wealthy Finney family have gathered at the Manoir Bellechasse to pay tribute to th ...Show more
Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKINFormidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-n ...Show more
Starlight Cafe by Rob Alexander; Renato Waru (Cover Design by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
This is Jack's story. Jack grew up on a rough council estate in London and has hit a rough patch with his business going to the wall. His Uncle Stan is ready to retire and suggests that Jack take over his long-standing Starlight Cafe. With the help of his partner and friends, Jack transforms the rundown ...Show more
An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called 'the most underrated novelist of the century'.'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' - Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murd ...Show more
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Aw ...Show more
Kala by Colin Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They- ...Show more
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Adult Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God's Time is an extraordinary novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning.