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Smoke by Michael Brissenden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
'The best crime book I've read this year.'Chris Hammer 'The best crime book I've read this year. Kept me guessing right to the end. The setting is brilliant, the characters compelling, the writing elegant, the plot bewitching, the tension palpable. A winner.'Chris Hammer 'A great book and an engrossing ...Show more
The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace by Sam Roggeveen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?Amid China's rise and America's decline in Asia, what will happen to Australia?In this authoritative account, defence expert and insider Sam Roggeveen questions the claim that Australia is vulnerable to China's mil ...Show more
The Favour by Nicci French
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
'Fantastic - a breathless drumbeat of dread and suspense . . . no one does it better than Nicci French' Lee Child 'Heart-thumping, head-scratching, nail-biting stuff: The Favour is classic Nicci French. I read it in one breathless sitting' Erin Kelly A good deed Can turn deadly… When Liam unexpectedl ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace, heart and wisdom. No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men ...Show more
The Little Clothes by Deborah Callaghan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When you are heading towards 40 and people start to notice you a little bit less, what do you do with your new powers of invisibility? Audrey Mendes is a clever lawyer but has never made partner. Her weeks are filled with long hours in the office, visits to her ageing parents, trivia nights at the local ...Show more
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"***The hilarious and heartbreaking new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN and SCENES OF A GRAPHIC NATURE*** 'If you've ever built your life and your personality around a friend; if you've ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time... In sho ...Show more
The Sitter (Miles Franklin 2024 longlist) by Angela O'Keeffe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggling to finish a novel about Hortense Cezanne, wife and sometime muse of the famous painter. Dead for more than a century, Hortense has been reawakened by this creative endeavour, and now shadows the writer ...Show more
Thirst for Salt: A novel by Madelaine Lucas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compelling and unforgettable debut novel by an acclaimed young Australian writer - a mesmerising story of desire and its complexities and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss and longing. 'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' -Leslie Ja ...Show more
We Only Want What's Best by Carolyn Swindell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A long-haul flight. Two ambitious dance mums. A child in danger. Bridget and Simone aren't friends. But their daughters are in the same dance troupe, so they're flying to Los Angeles for the girls to perform at Disneyland. Simone's daughter Zahra is indisputably a leader in the group, but Bridget's dau ...Show more
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other. Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon come ...Show more