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One Night, New York by Lara Thompson
$32.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller
A delicious detective story set in 1930s New York, and the winner of the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award. One winter night in 1932, at the top of the Empire State Building, Frances and Agnes, possible lovers and co-conspirators, are waiting for a man who has done something terrible to b ...Show more
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
$32.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burs ...Show more
The Beach Caves by Trevor Shearston
$29.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller
'Please. I'm in hell!' The truth of that was in his face. The rims of his eyes were red-raw, his hair was matted, he hadn't shaved since knocking at her door, when he'd been clean-shaven - one of the few details she remembered of that blurred encounter. 'I know why you're avoiding me. Whoever told the c ...Show more
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
What would you do if the secret police demanded you spy on a friend in order to protect your family? Three women confront the complexities of trust, friendship and motherhood under the rule of a dictator in this debut inspired by the author's own experiences in Iraq At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, ...Show more
Shelter by Catherine Jinks
$32.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller
Meg lives alone. A little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That's one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who's escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it's like to live with an abusive partner. Nerine is jumpy and her two little girls are frightened. It ...Show more
The Less Dead by Denise MINA
$32.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller
'Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions and never fails to deliver.' IAN RANKIN When Margot goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margot learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker ...Show more
Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar
$32.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller
Journalist Kate Aitken leaves New York for a fresh start in California and a new job: as an archivist for the estate of famed photographer Miranda Brand, who died mysteriously some decades earlier. Miranda's son, Theo, has returned to the family home after his father's death, and needs Kate to organise ...Show more
It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake by Claire Christian
$32.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
A quirky, feel-good romantic comedy about creating the life you want. Noni didn't expect to be starting over again at the age of thirty-six. But eighteen months after the end of her long-term relationship, she knows it's time to find out what's next. While an encounter with a sexy blonde firefighter is ...Show more
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
$29.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Shortlisted for Palestine Book Award Nahr has been confined to the Cube- nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The wor ...Show more
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
$32.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
From the author of the wonderful Beautiful Ruins comes an erudite and beguiling new novel. The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dream ...Show more
Our Shadows by Gail Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Our Shadows is a story about three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Nell and Frances are sisters who are close enough in age to be mistaken for twins. ...Show more
Factory 19 by Dennis Glover
$32.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
They tell us that human happiness lies only in the future. But what if it really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022- a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery ...Show more