Category: Australian Authors | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse. Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jer ...Show more
Category: General | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leigh Sales: “A work of literature that reads like an airport thriller. An incredible treat for fans of Margaret Atwood.” (Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize) The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Of ...Show more
Category: General
The Sun Sister is the sixth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley. To the outside world, Electra d'Apliese seems as though she is the woman who has everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. But beneath the ...Show more
Category: General
(Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize) Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, ...Show more
Category: Australian Authors | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the c ...Show more
Category: Crime | Series: Two Rivers Ser. | Reading Level: 2 Crime
The Long Call is the captivating first novel in a brand new series from Sunday Times bestseller and creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves. In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes ...Show more
Category: General
RICHARD GLOVER: "Someone told me this is “Philip Roth meets #MeToo” which had me reaching for a copy. It’s hilarious, bleak, oddly sexy, wonderfully satiric. If you’ve been divorced it may explain why; if you are still together, it proves congratulations are in order." Leigh Sa ...Show more
Category: Australian Authors | Reading Level: very good
The no 1. New York Times bestseller from the author of The Husband's Secret and new novel Nine Perfect Strangers.NOW AN EMMY AWARD WINNING HBO TELEVISION SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON & NICOLE KIDMANParents behaving badly ... a tragic accident ... or murder? What isn't in doubt is that someone i ...Show more
Category: Australian Authors | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
RICHARD GLOVER REVIEWS: ''I love writers who break their own mould with each book. Charlotte’s last book, The Natural Way of Things, was darkly compelling; this has more sunshine plus wonderfully flawed characters in whom you may find reflections of yourself.'' People went on about death bringing ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the globally bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring 'I loved it. So compelling and warm and subtle, and very moving' Bridget Collins, author of The Binding 'Deeply touching ... careful, beautiful' Louisa Young, author of You Left Early It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War ...Show more
Category: Crime | Reading Level: 2 Crime
The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new thriller.Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the ...Show more
Category: Australian Authors
From the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies and new novel Nine Perfect Strangers. "Love is not black and white ... fascinating and compassionate fiction" Daily TelegraphAs a hypnotherapist, Ellen O'Farrell is fascinated by what makes people tick. So when she ...Show more