The Silence In Between by Josie Ferguson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your new-born baby and there is now no way of getting to him... For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Alone in Berlin, a stunning historical debut. The Silence in Between is a historical novel based in ...Show more
Jade and Emerald: Winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize by Michelle See-Tho
$35.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see eye to eye with her strict Chinese-Malaysian mother.When Lei Ling is befriended by elegant, worldly socialite Gigi Nu, she is enchanted by the realm of luxury and freedom that ...Show more
The Cryptic Clue: A Tea Ladies Mystery by Amanda Hampson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, have their work cut out. Solving a murder, kidnapping and arson case, and outwitting an arch criminal, earned them the respect of a local police officer. Now he needs their a ...Show more
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
$35.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
A brilliantly original, funny and astute debut that examines how we navigate life, love and choice in a world of never-ending options .. You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence - from p ...Show more
Tilda Is Visible: A novel about women, life and being seen by Jane Tara
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Category: Book Club (Adults)
A gorgeous, witty and wise novel celebrating older women and what it takes to embrace ourselves as we age, from Better Reading's Jane Tara. 'Pitch-perfect'. Kathy Lette 'There aren't many original story ideas, but Jane Tara has pulled off the almost impossible feat of writing one. Tilda Is Visible is fr ...Show more
Can't I Go Instead (PB) by Lee Geum-yi
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
Two women's lives and identities are intertwined - through World War II and the Korean War - revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century. Can't I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant in the early 20th century. Wh ...Show more
The Stranger at the Wedding by A. E. Gauntlett
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
The beautiful bride Annie never believed in true love. Not until she caught sight of Mark on a crowded commuter train. It wasn't until months later that they finally had their picture-perfect first date and after a whirlwind romance, they are now about to tie the knot. The handsome groom Both Annie and ...Show more
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
A young woman's life is forever changed in the summer after World War I when she befriends a group of independent, motorcycle-riding women in a seaside town on the English coast. 'The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club captures the ambitions, frustrations, and inevitable tragedies of women ...Show more
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
$35.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan. At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary L.A. party for the pub ...Show more
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim
$25.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
A unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. 'Remarkable.' Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMES Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, a ...Show more
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
In an old wardrobe a djinn sits weeping. It whimpers and murmurs small words of complaint. It sucks its teeth and berates the heavens for its fate. It curses the day it ever entered this damned house. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate overlooking the sparkling ocean beyond South Africa's eastern coas ...Show more
The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar
$33.00 AUD
Category: Book Club (Adults)
A riveting story about uncovering family secrets and the power of forgiveness, set in India and the United States, from the bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick Honor. Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bom ...Show more