Category: Fiction - Contemporary
An epic story of suspense and revenge set on the mountainous frontier of 19th-century Italy. Jole is fifteen the first time she accompanies her father, Augusto, as he smuggles tobacco across the Italian border into Austria. She knows the dangers of the treacherous high mountain passes--border guards, b ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia. Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man?s discovery, in Vietnam and back home in the Northern Territory, S ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Following the success of Karyn Hay’s historical fiction novel, The March of the Foxgloves, Karyn returns with Winged Helmet, White Horse – more reminiscent in style of her debut, Emerald Budgies. Set in contemporary London, Winged Helmet, White Horse is a darkly comic psychological drama. T ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
*LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018* 'A riotous hymn to urban life... passionate, compelling' Guardian 'A novel that doesn't flinch, and demands change right now' Ali Smith 'A novel so of this moment that you don't even realize ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Some of us are more equal than others.... Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For years, Stanley has claimed that he's worth a small fortune. But ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Cora Bellamy is a woman who thrives on organization. She's successfully run her own dog training business for years, perfectly content with her beloved rescue pitbull as the main man in her life. She's given everything to her business, and her lack of social life (or slobber-free clothes) has been compl ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A big-hearted, funny, sad, dazzlingly ambitious novel about the messiness of love, family and belief - and how nothing ever turns out quite how we plan In 1979 Bridget Doyle has one goal left in life: for her family to produce the very first Irish pope. Fired up by John Paul II's appearance in Phoenix P ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
THE NEW SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ESSEX SERPENT'Perry's masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great achievements of our century and deserves all the prizes and praise that will be heaped upon it' Observer'A beautiful, devastating, brilliant book' Marian Ke ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
"It's unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn." Scotsman On The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unhappy, people fall in love and the seasons pass. The town of Aberdeen is no different, until the earthquakes. These seismic ripples t ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards--including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize--returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to expl ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
"Enthralling" --Boston Globe "Extraordinary" --Seattle Times "A rip-roaring tale" --Washington Post FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE and THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling adventure story, about a bo ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as 'excellent', 'gripping', 'as suspenseful as any thriller', 'engrossing', 'moving' and 'magnificent'. One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John ...Show more
