Reunion
Andrea Goldsmith

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )

Old friendships are expected to maintain their shape despite distance‚ lovers‚ careers‚ new friends. But twenty years is a long time.

Ava is an internationally acclaimed novelist who carries with her a lifetime of ... More »

In The Kitchen
Monica Ali

$32.95$14.95 (Trade paperback / Doubleday )

The new novel from the author of Brick Lane, In The Kitchen is a stunning novel set in the kitchen of a London hotel. The novel opens with a mysterious death in the cellars of a smart cosmopolitan hotel and over the cour... More »

The Women In Black
Madeleine St John

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. The women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush a... More »

About Face
Donna Leon

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Heinemann )

The wonderful new Commissario Brunetti novel, from Sunday Times Bestselling author Donna Leon.

At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Comissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian b... More »

Meet Me At Mike's
Pip Lincolne

$45.00 (Paperback book / Hardie Grant )

From Melbourne’s best loved crafty store comes Meet Me at Mike’s, a cornucopia of crafty fun and inspiration. Queen of Crafters Pip Lincolne has gathered 25 of the best projects from the country’s most creative cleverbod... More »

Butterfly
Sonya Hartnett

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

Here is Plum Coyle, on the threshold of adolescence, striving to be new. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching: her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, at ease. The strength... More »

The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Virago )

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its mas... More »

The Weight Of Silence
Catherine Therese

$29.99 (Trade paperback / Headline )

The Weight Of Silence is the gravity of all the unsaids, the unseens, and how they shape our lives. A father's drinking, a mother's shame, a daughter's longing to hold onto a trouser leg to hear someone speak of what nev... More »

Mother: Portraits By 40 Great Artists
Juliet Heslewood

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Frances Lincoln )

From Durer to Hockney, Kahlo to Cassatt, forty portraits make up this collection of artists' mothers. A delicious combination of biographical anecdote and art history, it is also an elegant celebration of the powerful re... More »

Gardens Of Eden: Among The Worlds Most Beautiful Gardens
Holly Kerr Forsyth

$59.99 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )

Gardens of Eden is not simply a stroll through the world s most beautiful gardens; it is a romp through history and an armchair ride around the world. More »

Snowflakes And Schnapps
Jane Lawson

$69.95$59.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )

Join Jane Lawson as she takes you on a culinary journey through the magnificent cold-climate cuisines of the snow-cloaked regions of northern, central and eastern Europe. From the seaside towns of Scandinavia, to the alp... More »

Wetlands
Charlotte Roche

$30.00 (Hardcover book / Fourth Estate )

Since its debut in February the novel ("Feuchtgebiete" in German) has sold more than 680000 copies and is the biggest selling book on Amazon anywhere in the world. The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and by... More »

Velvet Pears
Susan Southam

$69.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )

A lavishly illustrated and deeply personal story of the creation of an idiosyncratic Australian country garden, Velvet Pears is an inspirational book that is also full of practical ideas. Author Susan Southam created the... More »

Foxeys Hangout
Cathy Gowdie

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )

We were not obvious candidates for a sea change. When we talked of moving to the country, friends pointed out that Tony and I were hardly back-to-nature types. ‘Do you own a single pair of shoes without heels?’ asked a f... More »

Nocturnes
Kazuo Ishiguro

$29.99$29.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )

New from the Booker-Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day, When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go.

'It was our third time playing The Godfather theme since lunch ...' In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro e... More »

Breath
Tim Winton

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and ... More »

The Winter Vault
Anne Michaels

$32.99 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )

Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be rescued from the rising waters of the Aswan dam. Block by block it is to be dismantled and resurrected sixty metres higher. This most delicate and daunting of tasks is ... More »

Waiting Room
Gabrielle Carey

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

 'It all started with her bare feet. I'd never seen them like that before, from that angle, looking so vulnerable.'

 When Gabrielle Carey's mother, who is usually pedantically punctual and organised, begins to ... More »

My Cousin Rosa: Rosi Mitchell's Sicilian Kitchen
Rosa Mitchell

$59.95 (Hardcover book / Murdoch Books )

When a young girl and her family move from Sicily to country Australia, it is a surprisingly small step in kitchen miles. The tablecloth and stockpot are the same, cardoons and fennel still grow wild on the roadside and ... More »

Ransom
David Malouf

$29.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Vintage )

With learning worn lightly and in his own lyrical language, David Malouf revisits Homer's ILIAD. Focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired t... More »

Dog Boy
Eva Hornung

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )

In a deserted Moscow apartment building four-year-old Romochka waits for Uncle to come home. Outside the snow is falling, but after a few days hunger drives Romochka outside, his mother's voice ringing in his ears. Don't... More »