Readings Recommends: Fiction
Zone One
$29.95 – Hardback / Vintage
The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilisation under orders from the provisional... Buy or find out more→
Micro
$33.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton's greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills, cutting-edge technology, and... Buy or find out more→
Stone Arabia
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
From a National Book Award nominee ( Eat the Document ) comes a startlingly original and compelling novel about an eccentric artist and his sister. Buy or find out more→
When She Woke
$28.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
When she woke, she was red. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign. An enthralling and chilling novel from the author of MUDBOUND, for fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and THE SCARLET LETTER. Buy or find out more→
The Tragedy of Arthur
$35.00 – Hardback / Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Duckworth are proud to present this first modern edition of The Tragedy of Arthur by William Shakespeare. The long-lost play surfaces in Phillips's new novel, a sublime faux memoir framed as the introduction to the... Buy or find out more→
An Honourable Man
$30.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
* A big and important Victorian novel set in London and the Sudan from a major international writer Buy or find out more→
Jane Austen Made Me Do it: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart
$21.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.o If you just heaved a contented sigh at Mr. Darcy's heartfelt words, then you, dear reader, are in good company. Here is a... Buy or find out more→
The Beautiful Indifference
$29.99 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
A collection of intensely erotic and disarming tales, which span centuries, contemporary life and the future, and evoke landscapes as diverse as London's metropolis and lake Vuotjrvi in the Finnish wilderness. Buy or find out more→
Domestic Violets
$25.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
In the vein of Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta comes DOMESTIC VIOLETS, Matthew Norman's darkly comic family drama about love, loss, and ambition. Buy or find out more→
We Bought a Zoo: the Amazing True Story of a Broken-down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
A film tie-in edition to 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of the heart-warming international bestseller starring Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon and directed by Oscar-winning director Cameron Crowe. Buy or find out more→
The Thread
$30.00 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group
The enthralling new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND and THE RETURN. Buy or find out more→
Summer
$30.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
* An engrossing portrait of an extraordinary summer on a remote farm endured by two recently orphaned children - a stunning novel by a real talent Buy or find out more→
Down the Rabbit Hole
$24.95 – Paperback / And Other Stories
Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose... Buy or find out more→
Exile
$32.99 – Paperback / Quercus Publishing Plc
The first novel in a major trilogy exposing the guilt, loneliness and nihilism of the ex-pat experience in post-colonial Africa. Buy or find out more→
The Wine of Solitude
$29.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Imbued with melancholy, and regret, this novel explores the troubled relationship between a young girl, her distant, self-absorbed mother and her mother's lover, Max. It follows the family through the Great War and the Russian... Buy or find out more→
In Red
$30.95 – Paperback / Archipelago Books
In Tulli's second novel, set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, the world is unreal yet strangely familiar. Buy or find out more→
Explosive Eighteen
$32.99 – Paperback / Headline Publishing Group
Janet Evanovich is one of the world's biggest-selling authors. Her last book in the Stephanie Plum series, Smokin' Seventeen, reached No 1 on the New York Times hardcover beseller fiction list, as did the previous eleven books Buy or find out more→
The Language of Flowers
$30.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past -- Buy or find out more→
1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3
$39.95 – Hardback / Vintage
The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their... Buy or find out more→
The Map and the Territory
$32.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. Buy or find out more→
A Visit from the Goon Squad
$19.99 – Paperback / Constable and Robinson
With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Buy or find out more→
Forecast: Turbulence
$24.99 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
FORECAST TURBULENCE is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece from internationally acclaimed Australian author Janette Turner Hospital. Featuring a compelling and enigmatic... Buy or find out more→
The Year of the Hare
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Vatanen, a burned-out journalist, sets out on a country drive and hits a young hare. He saves the injured creature and the grateful animal adopts him. Leaving his old life, Vatanen and his new friend scamper through the Finnish... Buy or find out more→
The Auschwitz Violin
$17.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvellously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. When he asks her how she obtained it, she reveals the... Buy or find out more→
Inherited
$26.95 – Paperback / UWA Publishing
A dancer in a wheelchair. A collector of corks. One woman seduced by a mountain and another by Freddo Frogs. A man who hears his dead wifes voice. A poet whose voice has disappeared. A photographer distilling grief in his lens. A... Buy or find out more→
Conqueror
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
The one and only Conn Iggulden takes on the story of the mighty Kublai Khan. An epic tale of a great and heroic mind; his action-packed rule; and how in conquering one-fifth of the world's inhabited land, he changed the course of... Buy or find out more→
I Don't Know How She Does It
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour. A victim of time... Buy or find out more→
Golden Earrings
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Paloma Batton is the grand-daughter of Spanish refugees who fled Barcelona after the Civil War. A disciplined student with the School of the Paris Opera Ballet, Paloma lets little get in the way of her career until she receives a... Buy or find out more→
You Deserve Nothing
$30.00 – Paperback / John Murray General Publishing Division
Dark, compelling story of an illicit affair between a young teacher and his female student for fans of Donna Tartt Buy or find out more→
Little Star
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The dark, sad and shockingly real story of a friendship between two damaged children and the terrible consequences for those who cross them, from the author of the international bestseller Let the Right One In. Buy or find out more→
The Milkman in the Night
$32.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. After waking to find his boots and overcoat damp on several mornings in a row, Semyon... Buy or find out more→
Infrared
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
From Nancy Huston - the Orange Prize shortlisted author of Fault Lines - comes Infrared: a smart and provocative novel of sexual intimacy and desire. Buy or find out more→
C
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A brilliant epochal saga from the acclaimed author of Remainder, C takes place in the early years of the 20th century and ranges from western England to Europe to North Africa. Buy or find out more→
Stabat Mater
$19.99 – Paperback / Profile Books Ltd
In early eighteenth-century Venice an orphan girl discovers life and independence in the music of Vivaldi. The female musicians of the Instituto della Pieta play from a gallery in the church, their faces half hidden by metal... Buy or find out more→
Aleph
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
In a frank and surprisingly personal story, Paulo Coelho's latest novel reveals how a grave crisis of faith caused him to go in search of a path of spiritual renewal and growth. Buy or find out more→
If it is Sweet
$24.95 – Paperback / Hunter Publishers
In If It Is Sweet, precisely etched characters collide, the blind suddenly seeing the blind. Mridula Koshy plumbs the chasms across which they stare, asking the question: what is it people see when they see one another? Her... Buy or find out more→
Honey Thief
$24.95 – Paperback / Insight Publications
'Moving effortlessly from the oral to the written, from folktale to modern-day fable, and from the earthly to the transcendent, this beautiful, life-affirming book probes the heart and soul of a remarkable culture, while paying... Buy or find out more→
How I Became a Famous Novelist
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Sick of life as he knows it, Pete Tarslaw sets out to write a bestselling novel, armed with a formula for success cobbled together from previous bestsellers. This title tells the tale of how Tarslaw's 'pile of garbage' became the... Buy or find out more→
House of Sticks
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Peggy Frew's interview with Kate Veitch about House of Sticks. Peggy Frew’s debut... Buy or find out more→
Everything Beautiful Began After
$20.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
The first novel from the Frank O'Connor Awardwinning author Simon van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After is a beautifully rendered debut novel set against the backdrop of Athens-a story of love amongst the ruins. Buy or find out more→
Black Jesus
$24.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A young marine returns home from Iraq, blinded and scarred by an IED and harbouring a terrible secret. He saw something in Iraq that can never be erased and the knowledge of it is slowly driving him mad. Buy or find out more→
Hinterland
$29.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
It is night, and two boys are crossing a river that is also a border. They have nothing but the clothes on their backs, their inheritance stitched into the lining of a belt, and the courage of an enormous gamble: that Europe... Buy or find out more→
The Borrower
$29.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. Buy or find out more→
Burning Bright
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Winner of the 2010 Frank O'Connor Award, BURNING BRIGHT confirms Ron Rash 'could sit comfortably beside Cormac McCarthy on any bookshelf' (Guardian) Buy or find out more→
End Of Everything
$27.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Lizzie and Evie are inseparable. They walk home from school together, sleep over at each other's houses, even flirt with boys together. And they tell each other everything. Or at least, that's what Lizzie thinks - until Evie goes... Buy or find out more→
There But For The
$26.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
From the award-winning author of Hotel World and The Accidental, a dazzling, funny, and wonderfully exhilarating new novel. At a posh dinner party in a London suburb, one of the guests suddenly locks himself in an upstairs... Buy or find out more→
The Coffee Story
$30.00 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
A wild, caffeine-fuelled deathbed confession of love and betrayal that spans four continents. Buy or find out more→
There Should be More Dancing
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Margery Blandon has led a life of principles. Now she finds herself sitting on the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel, preparing to throw herself to her death. Margery Blandon was always a principled woman who found... Buy or find out more→
A Man You Can Bank On
$29.99 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
Lambert Hampton is the man the small, drought-ravaged and dying country town of Munni-Munni turn to when they uncover $3 million stolen from bookies by ruthless bandits, and buried seemingly in the middle of nowhere Buy or find out more→
The Book of Lies
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
An extraordinary portrait of life under Occupation Buy or find out more→
The Amateur Science of Love
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Colin dreams of escaping his parents' New Zealand farm for a grand stage career. He makes it to London and a disastrous audition before meeting Tilda; beautiful Tilda, older, an artist; who brings his future with her. A heady... Buy or find out more→
River of Smoke
$27.95 – Paperback / John Murray General Publishing Division
The sequel to the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted, Sea of Poppies Buy or find out more→
The Good Muslim
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
In a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram brings life-changing news to Maya Haque's door. Eight years before, a brutal war tore Maya's country and her family apart. Now it is time to return home. She arrives to find that... Buy or find out more→
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
$30.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
* The new and last Beryl Bainbridge is a double murder mystery and a bittersweet masterpiece of the kind with which she has made her reputation Buy or find out more→
Too Close to Home
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Shane, an Aboriginal man, moves up the road. He was once close to Matt, Freya's partner, and he not only brings with him a different approach to life, he also has news of a boy who might be Matt's son. Despite wanting to embrace... Buy or find out more→
Caleb's Crossing
$32.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller 'March', 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book'. Buy or find out more→
Watercolours
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Eleven-year-old Novi just wants to blend in - not easy when you're named after a silkworm and have the most eccentric family in town. Young teacher Dom Best is new in town and must overcome his lack of confidence to support Novi's... Buy or find out more→
The Precipice
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Thea Farmer, 77, a reclusive and difficult retired school principal, lives in isolation with her dog in the Blue Mountains. Her distinguished career ended under a cloud over a decade earlier, following an unspecified scandal... Buy or find out more→
I Hate Martin Amis Et Al
$29.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing
It is 1995. Milan Zorec, an aspiring yet rejected novelist, travels from England to Bosnia to join the Serbian forces as a sniper in Sarajevo, in the final months of the longest siege in history. Hes determined to find a story... Buy or find out more→
The Book of Rachael
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Two thousand years ago, while a young Jewish preacher from Nazareth was gathering followers among the people of Galilee, his sister swept floors and dreamed of learning to read. Buy or find out more→
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
$17.95 – Paperback / Quirk Books
Part of the PPZ Trilogy , this title opens four years after the terrifying events of PPZ . Our happily married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, spend their days defending Meryton from the scourge of the... Buy or find out more→
Snake
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
The story of an unhappy marriage between a restless, rebellious and ill-tempered woman and her stolid farmer husband, who suffers her moods and taunts helplessly. Their children live among tensions beyond their understanding, and... Buy or find out more→
Paris Dreaming
$32.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
Libby is on a man-fast: no more romance, no more cheating men, no more heartbreak. But when fate takes Libby to work in Paris at the Musee du Quai Branly, she's suddenly thrown out of her comfort zone and into a city full of... Buy or find out more→
You Think That's Bad: Stories
$36.95 – Hardback / Random House USA Inc
Culling the vastness of experience like an expert curator, Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating. These stories traverse centuries, continents, and social strata, yet what... Buy or find out more→
Other People's Money
$32.99 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The upper-crust, family-owned bank of Tubal & Co, in the City of London, is in trouble. It’s not the first time in its three hundred and forty year history, but it may be the last. A secret sale is under way, and a number... Buy or find out more→
A Love Letter from a Stray Moon
$19.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
I am Frida, and I am not Frida. I am the moon, hollowed out by remorse. I am many women, I answer to many names. My prayer is from the forests of Mexico, from the molten heart of the earth. Fly closer, fly nearer to me. Buy or find out more→
The Betrayal
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar, postsiege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must... Buy or find out more→
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
$23.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
In this ingenious and spell-binding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. Buy or find out more→
Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise
$27.95 – Hardback / Vintage
A novel that dispenses with the normal rules for literary composition. Buy or find out more→
Gone
$29.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
A young man is released from prison, his hands empty, his identity gone. He catches a train out of town, then hitchhikes west. He hasn't been home for 15 years. Out of the past, as memories surface, something is coming that will... Buy or find out more→
Mr. Rosenblum's List: Or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman
$22.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
List item 2: Never speak German on the upper decks of London buses. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. He's writing a list so he can become a Very English Gentleman. List item 41: An... Buy or find out more→
Trespass
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action. Meanwhile, his sister, Audrun dreams... Buy or find out more→
Nazi Literature in the Americas
$22.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, this title details the lives of various characters. Buy or find out more→
The Summer without Men
$22.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
An exhilarating tragicomedy about the war of the sexes and what makes women tick by the internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt. Buy or find out more→
Night Soul and Other Stories
$17.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press
New stories from a master of American fiction. Buy or find out more→
When the Killing's Done
$33.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The latest masterpiece from the unstoppable T.C. Boyle, a sweeping epic of family, ecology and the right to life - no matter what the fallout Buy or find out more→
August
$23.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. Buy or find out more→
Black Glass
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Sisters Tally and Grace have always dreamed of moving to the city. Yet neither of them ever expected to be living there broke, homeless and alone as happens when they become separated after an accident. The city, dominated by... Buy or find out more→
Dream of Ding Village
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The life and death of an entire community is told by a dead boy. His story reveals the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist-capitalist China. During a blood-contamination scandal in Henan province, villagers sell their blood,... Buy or find out more→
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
$35.00 – Hardback / Little, Brown Book Group
* Mma Ramotswe's twelfth adventure; published in Little, Brown hardback Buy or find out more→
Blue Skies
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A young wife and mother watches a clock that seems forever stuck at three-in-the-afternoon. Her husband didn't come home last night. She lives for Tuesdays and Thursdays, when she can escape to a less humdrum life. Jonathan, man... Buy or find out more→
Bright And Distant Shores
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Chicago First Equitable is to construct the world's tallest building and its president, Hale Gray, hits upon a way to make it an enduring landmark: to establish on the roof an exhibition of real-life 'savages'. Caught up in this... Buy or find out more→
Angelica
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
When Constance married Joseph Barton she believed she had found her ultimate husband and protector. But after three miscarriages and the troubled birth of their daughter, Angelica, Constance begins to fear his intentions. Sensing... Buy or find out more→
One Foot in Eden
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Simon Tofield returns with a charming follow-up to Simon's Cat. Buy or find out more→
This Too Shall Pass
$27.95 – Paperback / Hardie Grant Books
Jen Montgomery's life appears, almost suddenly, to be at an impasse. Nothing is as secure or as certain as she had previously thought. Love, marriage, parenthood, family, work, the very fabric of her identity seems to be shifting.... Buy or find out more→
What The World Will Look Like When All The Water Leaves Us
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The stories in Laura van den Berg's rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane. Rendered with grace and precision, this breathtaking collection is narrated by women yearning for absolution,... Buy or find out more→
Five Bells
$29.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water. But each of the four... Buy or find out more→
Caribou Island
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Gary and Irene's marriage is unraveling. Soon they are hauling logs out to Caribou Island to build a cabin, and with each trip their desperation escalatesthe punishing desolation of the prehistoric wilderness threatening to push... Buy or find out more→
The Messenger
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Jan Karski, a young Polish officer, joined the Polish underground after escaping from a Soviet detention camp, before he was captured and brutally tortured by the Gestapo. Escaping from the Germans, Karski was charged with the... Buy or find out more→
Indignities
$19.95 – Paperback / Clouds of Magellan
The Indignities by Graeme Aitken - the glittering sequel to Vanity Fierce (Random House 1986)In Vanity Fierce,Stephen Spear went to extreme lengths to snare his man.In this comic sequel, Stephen ingeniously bypasses his landmark... Buy or find out more→
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
$34.95 – Hardback / Riverhead Books
In a masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family, Mosley captures the compromised state of his protagonist's mind with profound sensitivity and insight, and creates an unforgettable pair of characters at the center of a... Buy or find out more→
Crime
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Crime is a collection of true crime stories told by one of Germany's most prominent defense lawyers. Some of the cases are strange, some bewildering and others heartbreaking, but all are told with genuine concern for those who... Buy or find out more→
The Lover's Dictionary
$22.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
How does one talk about love? Buy or find out more→
The Gordian Knot
$32.99 – Paperback / Orion Publishing Co
A prize-winning Cold War spy novel from the author of international megaseller THE READER. Buy or find out more→
The Other Family
$24.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
Chrissie always believed that Richie loved her, had loved her for all the twenty-three years they'd been together, loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was... Buy or find out more→
Before I Fall
$10.00 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
As compelling as The Lovely Bones and as memorable as Jenny Downham's Before I Die, this will become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Buy or find out more→
Dracula in Love
$25.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Dracula's beautiful, eternal muse, Mina - the most famous woman in vampire lore - vividly recounts the joys and terrors of a passionate affair that has linked her and Count Dracula through the centuries. Time falls away as she is... Buy or find out more→
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
$23.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Could two stories, in two different cities, actually be the same story? In Venice, a jaded art critic is rejuvenated by a whirlwind love affair. In Varanasi, a spiritual seeker observes a romance that reflects the pleasures he has... Buy or find out more→
A Reliable Wife
$22.99 – Paperback / Hachette Australia
Set in the American Midwest in 1907, A RELIABLE WIFE is the story of Ralph Truitt, a wealthy but lonely man in his fifties who places an ad in the paper for a reliable wife. Buy or find out more→
The Indigo Sky
$32.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
In 1957, when piano teacher Ilona Talivaldis arrived in the sleepy little town of Jingera, she was mocked as the 'reffo from Latvia'. Just four years on, she and her 14-year-old daughter Zidra are at the heart of the community.... Buy or find out more→