Words for Lucy: A story of love, loss and the celebration of life by Marion Halligan
$32.99 AUD
Category: General (A-Z)
One morning, Lucy Halligan lay on her bed with her cat and went to sleep. Soon after, her heart stopped. But her mother, writer Marion Halligan, forced hers to keep beating. More joy than sorrow, this profoundly moving memoir celebrates Lucy's life, weaving together everyday details and treasured events ...Show more
Wrack by James Bradley
$22.99 AUD
Category: General (A-Z)
1997 kicks off with a startling and original literary debut...a haunting, powerful story of passion, betrayal, obsession and loss. A body is found in the sandhills on the southern coast of New South Wales. David is an archaeologist, leading a team of students digging up the sandhills, searching for evid ...Show more
Writing a Non-boring Family History by Hazel Edwards
$22.95 AUD
Category: General (A-Z)
Family history sleuthing is the biggest hobby worldwide. Amid a sea of genealogy books, Hazel Edwards has written a practical handbook on how to craft stories about our ancestors in an interesting way that other people will want to read. She addresses the vital issues of: injecting life into a name on a ...Show more
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Stories
When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers endure a self-imposed quarantine to keep the disease from sp ...Show more
Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Athena Liu is a literary darling. Juniper Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name June Song. But as evidence threatens Juniper's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she ...Show more
Yoko's Diary by Paul Ham (Editor); Debbie Edwards (Translator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: True Stories
The diary is one little girl's vision of her world as it closes in and destroys her. She is a highly intelligent child; but the full weight of Japanese propaganda can be felt through her thoughts and observations; she is also a classic example of the dutiful Japanese daughter, but one with a keenly obse ...Show more
You Be Mother by Meg Mason
$24.99 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
"What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies. The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pa ...Show more
You Need to Know by Nicola Moriarty
$32.99 AUD
Category: General (A-Z)
From the bestselling author of The Ex and Those Other Women comes a thrilling family drama about the secrets we keep, the lies we tell and the truths that won't stay hidden. The holidays are here. The extended family has gathered. The cars are packed and the convoy sets off. The cottage is a few hours' ...Show more
You Only Live Twice (007 James Bond #12) by Ian Fleming
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: James Bond 007 Ser.
'You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face' Doctor Guntram Shatterhand's "Garden of Death" is a magnet for suicides from all over Japan. James Bond - grief-stricken and erratic - must kill him to save his career in the Service. But as Shatterhand's true identit ...Show more
You're Just Too Good to be True (Penguin Special) by Sofija Stefanovic
$9.99 AUD
Category: General (A-Z) | Series: Penguin Specials
Sofija Stefanovic visits her eighty-year-old friend Bill and suspects he's being scammed over the internet - not for the first time. Compelled by Bill's devastating stories of online dating, heartbreak and bankruptcy, Sofija gets drawn into the underworld of romance scams. Her investigations take her to ...Show more
first, we make the beast beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety by Sarah Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: General (A-Z) | Series: Anxiety
If you love someone who is anxious, this book is for you. I Quit Sugar founder and New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson has lived through high anxiety - including bipolar, OCD and several suicide attempts - her whole life. Perhaps like you, she grew tired of seeing anxiety as a disease that mu ...Show more