The Things That Matter Most by Gabbie Stroud
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of Teacher. The staff of St Margaret's Primary School are hanging by a thread. There's serious litigation pending, the school is due for registration, and a powerful parent named Janet Bellevue has a lot to ...Show more
The Crossing: A Memoir of Love, Adventure and Finding Your Own Path by Sophie Matterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love, by crossing 4750km of rugged Australian terrain with five wild camels. I had always felt like I was looking for 'more' in my life. I couldn't quite define what this 'more' was, but I knew the camels were a part of it. In 202 ...Show more
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults) | Reading Level: near fine
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him until a chance encounter changes everything. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Orego ...Show more
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
A fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize her ability to see ghosts and team-up with a band of oddball investigators to figure out which member(s) of a posh English family are guilty of murder."This book has bags of humor, bags of heart, and a prop ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$23.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults) | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
The Maiden by Kate Foster
$35.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults) | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. "In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me." Edinbu ...Show more
Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro
$35.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults) | Reading Level: very good
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved Lessons in Chemistry and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, you will adore Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts. 'Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts plunges the reader into the gru ...Show more
Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets. But now you know one of ours… Rules for being a maid: • No smoking • No boyfriends • No visitors • And most importantly: be invisible… Corazon, Angel and Donita have all come to Singapore to work for a living. T ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambit ...Show more
The Captain Loves Caviar by Chilli Kippen
$25.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
Peppe Gonzales has always been the perfect cabin steward but this cruise is different. When last on shore leave Peppe met the man he believes to be his life partner and he is desperate to get back to him. As Peppe schemes with his lover for ways to jump ship Peppe's cabin passengers, a Saudie Sheikh and ...Show more
Twenty-Six Letters by Charlotte Nash
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
Wilhelmina Mann can never seem to get anything right: her work, relationships and family are all on the rocks. But when she suddenly receives a stack of letters from her long-dead mother, everything she's ever known begins to change. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Wilhelmina Mann is already deali ...Show more