| Author: | Michael Ondaatje |
| Category: |
General |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Classics Ser. |
| Awards: | Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1992 Winner of the Golden Man Booker Award in 2018, celebrating 50 years of the Man Booker Literary Award. |
"Hana, the Canadian nurse exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; Caravaggio, the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn vi... read more
| Author: | Josephine Moon |
| Category: |
Australian Authors |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
You?ve been given the gift of life, now go live it.Gabby McPhee is the owner of The Tin Man, a chic new cafe and coffee roasting house in Melbourne. The struggles of her recent heart transplant are behind her and life is looking up - until a mysterious customer appears in t... read more
| Author: | Mark Brandi |
| Category: |
Australian Authors |
| Reading Level: | 1 |
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WIMMERA.An urban crime novel that slowly and masterfully hooks you in... then shocks with the horrific crime and the dread that the characters you care about aren't going to make it out alive.'It's funny how quick it... read more
| Author: | Meg Keneally |
| Category: |
Historical |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
Highway robber. Convict. Runaway. Mother. She will do anything for freedom, but at what cost?
Jenny Trelawney is no ordinary thief. Forced by poverty to live in the forest, she becomes a successful highwaywoman - until her luck runs out. ? Transported to Britain's furthest colony, Jen... read more
| Author: | W. Bruce Cameron |
| Category: |
General |
Buddy is a good dog. After searching for his purpose through several eventful lives, Buddy is sure that he has found and fulfilled it. Yet as he watches curious baby Clarity get into dangerous mischief, he is certain that this little girl is very much in need of a dog of her own... read more
| Author: | Fiona McIntosh |
| Category: |
Australian Authors |
Severine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique jewellery, her specialty. Her London colleagues find her distant and mysterious, her cool beauty the topic of conversations around its quiet halls. No one could imagine that sh... read more
| Author: | Ian McEwan |
| Category: |
General |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative... read more
| Author: | Miriam Sved |
| Category: |
Australian Authors |
| Reading Level: | 1 Fiction |
I have wished so many times that I had acted differently.I wish that I had been more worthy of you...Eventually the war will end, and then we will find each other. Until then, remember me.
Hungary, 1938. In a city park, beneath one of its bleakly looming ... read more
| Author: | Liane Moriarty |
| Category: |
Australian Authors |
The health and wellness retreat at Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, while enjoying their hot stone massages in complete serenity. Watching over them is the resort's direc... read more
| Author: | Peter James |
| Category: |
Crime |
| Series: | Roy Grace Ser. |
| Awards: | Long-listed for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2013. |
The eighth novel in the multi-million copy bestselling Roy Grace series from #1 author Peter James, winner of the 2016 Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger prize."Utterly gripping" Daily MirrorFor LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune tha... read more
| Author: | Liane Moriarty |
| Category: |
Australian Authors |
| Reading Level: | very good |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for ABIA Australian General Fiction Book of the Year 2014. |
'What would you do if you found a letter in the attic, addressed to you, from your husband - to be opened in the event of his death? Another masterclass from the author of Big Little Lies' GRAZIA _______________ Mother of three and wife of John-Paul, Cecilia discovers a... read more
| Author: | Isabella Hammad |
| Category: |
Historical |
In this masterful debut novel, Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad delivers a sweeping, brilliantly crafted portrait of a young man's coming-of-age alongside the embattled development of a nation. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in O... read more
