Fiction for Mum
All That I Am
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
ABIA Book of the Year 2012
Winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award 2012
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2012
Read our Q&A with Anna Funder about All That I Am.
'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The... Buy or find out more →
The Red House
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estrange... Buy or find out more →
Fifty Shades Of Grey
$17.95 – Paperback book / Arrow
Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, Fifty Shades of Grey is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever.
When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Chris... Buy or find out more →
The New Republic
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Fat and ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he′s offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognize... Buy or find out more →
Home
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His Home--and himself in i... Buy or find out more →
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel and filled with visions of a life of leisure, good weather and mango juice in their gin, a group of very different people leave England to begin a new life in... Buy or find out more →
The Boy Who Fell To Earth
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright, beautiful son - who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlin's father, the reserved, cerebral workaholic Jeremy, left them in the lurch shortly after Merlin's diagnosis, Lucy has made Me... Buy or find out more →
The Beginner's Goodbye
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have forgotten she'd died in the first place; and others just walked straight on by. The accident that killed D... Buy or find out more →
The Wedding Season
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Meet Shani - she's thirty-two, single and has a job to die for. And she likes her life just the way it is, thank you! So why do her family and friends insist on trying to convince her that the only way to the perfect lif... Buy or find out more →
Running Dogs
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Read our Q&A with Ruby Murray about Running Dogs.
Jakarta, 1997, and the city is on the verge of a revolution.
Even the Jordan children — Petra, Isaak and Paul — can feel it coming, shaking the edges of their privil... Buy or find out more →
The Wind Through The Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement.
Roland Deschain and his ka... Buy or find out more →
Deadlocked: The Southern Vampire Mysteries Book Twelve
$29.99 – Paperback book / Orion
The Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Now the vampires and the shapeshifters are 'out', you'd think the supernaturals would get on with each other. But nothing is that simple in Bon Temps!... Buy or find out more →
The Forrests
$29.95$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the ... Buy or find out more →
Cloudstreet (21st Anniversary Edition)
$31.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
Twenty-one years on, Cloudstreet is still Australia's favourite novel.
After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united and ... Buy or find out more →
The Book Of Madness And Cures
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Hachette
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to underst... Buy or find out more →
Lone Wolf
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A life hanging in the balance ... a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family, love, and letting go.
Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living i... Buy or find out more →
The Other Child
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Hachette
Scarborough is usually a place of respite, but DI Valerie Almond is in for unpleasant things: a gory discovery on a desolate farm; the death of a student that the police are struggling to solve; a copycat killing that ma... Buy or find out more →
The Lifeboat
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Hachette
I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six.
In the summer of 1914, the Empress Alexandra, a magnificent ocean liner, suffers a mysterious explosion ... Buy or find out more →
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (Film Tie-In)
$22.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
Film tie-in edition to the Sunday Times bestseller.
This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article... Buy or find out more →
Dead Heat
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
The national parks where Ranger Jo Lockwood works, on the edge of the NSW outback, are untamed stretches of dry forest cut through with wild rivers. She s often alone, and she likes it that way until she discovers the bo... Buy or find out more →
Better Together
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Headline
From this bestselling author comes the sensational novel about searching for that big-break story, and finding your own... Sheridan Gray has the perfect life: dream job as a hot-shot journalist, ideal boyfriend and deman... Buy or find out more →
The Lavender Keeper
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
'Are you German or are you French? Are you working against Germany or for it? Are you telling me the truth, or are you a very accomplished liar?'Lavender farmer Luc Bonet is raised by a wealthy Jewish family in the footh... Buy or find out more →
The Road Home
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
When your life is at a crossroads, how do you find the road home?
Lara Turner has a boyfriend, a nice house in the city and a chance at a big promotion. So when her brother calls asking her to come home, she hesitates. C... Buy or find out more →
The Night Circus
$32.95$29.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, the Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves ... Buy or find out more →
Naomi's Wish
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
It had always been Dr Naomi Fontaine's dream to practice small-town medicine - an ambition that has brought her to the quirky, tight-knit community of Cypress Hollow. But no matter how hard she tries, the locals still tr... Buy or find out more →
The Briny Cafe
$19.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press
Brimming with warmth and wit, Susan Duncan's first novel is a delicious tale of friendship and love, and the search for a place to call home...
Ettie Brookbank is the heart and soul of Cook's Basin, a sleepy offshore com... Buy or find out more →
Bitter Greens
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Of all the Grimm fairytales, 'Rapunzel' is one of the most mysterious and enduring. It is the story of a young girl who is sold by her parents to a witch for a handful of bitter green herbs. At the age of twelve, Rapunze... Buy or find out more →
The Memory Tree
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
When Paulina dies mid-dance, she leaves 12-year-old Zav and 7-year-old Sealie with their loving but unstable father, Hal. The grieving family decides to plant a tree in her memory - a magnolia which, growing along with t... Buy or find out more →
Animal People
$32.95$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Read our Q&A with Charlotte Wood about Animal People.
The hilarious, tender and heartbreaking story of a watershed day in the life of Stephen - aimless, unhappy and unfulfilled, this stiflingly hot December day is t... Buy or find out more →
The Fine Colour Of Rust
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
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Single mother and dreamer Loretta Boskovic lives in Gunapan, a town lost in the scrubby Australian bush. She has fantasies about dumping her two kids i... Buy or find out more →
The House On Willow Street
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Tess used to be happy with her lot: she lives in the idyllic Irish coastal village, Avalon, with her teenage son, Zach, and nine-year-old Kitty, and works in the local antiques shop. Her only regret in life is that every... Buy or find out more →
Stonemouth
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Hachette
The long-awaited and stunning new novel from the unrivalled Iain Banks.
Pitched between THE CROW ROAD and THE WASP FACTORY, STONEMOUTH is set in a small town north of Aberdeen and involves two warring crime families.
Our... Buy or find out more →
Secrets Of The Tides
$24.95 – Paperback book / Orion
Every family has its secrets. Some are small, like telling a white lie or snooping through a private drawer. Others are more serious, like infidelity and betrayal. And some secrets are so terrible they must be hidden awa... Buy or find out more →
Sweet Old World
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
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'He goes down the stairs, singing Johnny Cash. It's a song about a man who's fallen real low, but he's not low, he's forty-three years old today,... Buy or find out more →
The Street Sweeper
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Read our Q&A with Elliot Perlman on The Street Sweeper.
How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.
From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanit... Buy or find out more →
Blood
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
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‘Many of us have known for a long time what a wonderful storyteller Tony Birch is. Blood confirms it – and how. The terrain is hard, unflinching but also imbued with a deeply re... Buy or find out more →
The Light Between Oceans
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel—the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds.
In 1918, after four harrowing years on th... Buy or find out more →
Micro
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Three men are found dead in the locked second floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed ro... Buy or find out more →
The Little Shadows
$29.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
The eagerly anticipated new novel from the Commonwealth Prize winning author of the bestselling Good to a Fault follows three sisters into the backstage world of Polite Vaudeville before and during the First World War.
T... Buy or find out more →
The Detour
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
A Dutch woman, a university English lecturer researching the work of Emily Dickinson, rents a farm in remote, rural Wales. When she arrives, there are ten geese living on the farm, but one by one they disappear. Perhaps ... Buy or find out more →
1Q84
$24.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo.
Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the d... Buy or find out more →
The Mistake
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
We all have secrets…
Jodie Garrow is a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks when she falls pregnant. Scared, alone and desperate to make something of her life, she adopts out the baby illegally– and tells nobody.... Buy or find out more →
Emerald City
$19.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
A collection of short stories from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad.
These eleven masterful stories – the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan – deal with l... Buy or find out more →
The Buddha In The Attic
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Fig Tree
In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the women's extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unkn... Buy or find out more →
The Paris Wife
$19.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal,The Paris
Wifecaptures a remarkable period of time and a love affair
between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife
Hadley.
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richar... Buy or find out more →
Floundering
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
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Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran since the day their mother, Loretta, left them on her doorstep and disappeared.
Now Loretta’s returned, and she... Buy or find out more →
The Longing
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
In Australia in the 1840s, the lives of two very different women intersect. Ellis MacRorie is shipped to Victoria from her Scottish homeland by her bankrupt father; Leerpeen Weelan, her Aboriginal servant known as Louisa... Buy or find out more →
Sarah Thornhill
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
This powerful novel will enthrall readers of Kate Grenville’s bestselling The Secret River, winner of the Commonwealth Writers‘ Prize.
From the beginning Jack and I was friends. Somehow our way of looking at things f... Buy or find out more →
Free-Falling
$32.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press
The Fiancee
Belinda's life is in free-fall after the sudden death of her fiancé
Andy.
But then ghostly signs begin to appear which suggest he might not really be gone. And Belinda begins to tumble even further.
Will his... Buy or find out more →
The Mountain
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Read Drusilla Modjeska's interview with Geordie Williamson about The Mountain.
Special Readings edition with cover quote from Readings boss Mark Rubbo.
"The Mountain is a truly remarkable book - lush and fascinating, it... Buy or find out more →
The Bellwether Revivals
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistan... Buy or find out more →
Mateship With Birds
$19.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
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On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a t... Buy or find out more →
The Chemistry Of Tears
$39.95$29.95 – Hard back / Penguin
When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work.
The long affair had been kept secret from their colleagues at London's Swinburne Museum and now she must grieve in private. Or almost. In an act of compas... Buy or find out more →
The Hanging Garden
$29.95$24.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
A previously unpublished novel from the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has ... Buy or find out more →
The Snow Child
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Headline
A magical novel with a distinctly grown-up sensibility, THE SNOW CHILD will appeal to fans of imaginative reading group fiction, such as THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, THE LOVELY BONES and THE BOOK THIEF.
A bewitching tale of... Buy or find out more →
The Wolf Gift
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles (“unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable”—The Washington Post), Lives of the Mayfair Witches (“Anne Rice will live on through the ages of liter... Buy or find out more →
Missing Shade Of Blue
$29.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown
When translator Edgar Logan arrives from his home in Paris to work in Edinburgh he anticipates a period of enlightenment and calm. But with a chance meeting with the philosopher Harry Sanderson and his captivating artist... Buy or find out more →
The Confidant
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Paris, 1975. Sifting through the letters of condolence after her mother's death, Camille discovers a strange missive sent by someone she does not know. She thinks it is probably an error. But then, ever... Buy or find out more →
Various Pets Alive And Dead
$29.95$24.95 – Trade paperback / Fig Tree
Marcus and Doro were part of a left wing commune from the late 1960s until the early 1990s: lentils, free love, spliffs, Left politics, cheesecloth blouses, sex, housework and cooking rotas, crochet, allotments. Their ch... Buy or find out more →
The Meaning Of Grace
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'Mum is the reference point. If you ever get confused about anything, there she is, waiting with all her knowledge of you.' Grace Fisher, mother of three, one day decides her husband is a sore disappointment and moves th... Buy or find out more →
The Mother's Group
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
An unthinkably shocking event sends shockwaves through a tight-knit mother's group, testing their bonds and revealing closely-held secrets that threaten to shatter their lives in an explosive, enthralling debut novel abo... Buy or find out more →