The Banksia House Breakout by James Roxburgh
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
When Ruth Morris is moved into Banksia House by her workaholic son Michael, she is eighty-one years young, mourning her loss of independence, and missing her best friend Gladys terribly. So when she learns Gladys is dying a state over in Brisbane, Ruth is determined to say goodbye. Enlisting the help of ...Show more
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century's master storytellers.From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in ...Show more
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the backlist of Elif Shafak, author of The Architect's Apprentice, The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize.One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announ ...Show more
The Beach Caves by Trevor Shearston
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'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
The Bead Collector by Sefi Atta
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Lagos, January 1976, six years after the Nigerian Civil War. A new military regime has been in power for six months, but rumors are spreading that a countercoup is imminent. At an art exhibition in the affluent Ikoyi neighborhood, Remi Lawal, a Nigerian woman who runs her own greeting-card shop, meets F ...Show more
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
¿In spare and lovely prose, Andrew Krivak folds the deep past and the far future into a remarkable fable about our inheritance as humanity makes a harmonic return to the spirit and animal worlds. This book follows you, like a river under ice.¿ ¿Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master¿s Son and Fortune ...Show more
The Bear and The Nightingale: (Winternight Trilogy #1) by Katherine Arden
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Winternight Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
** Voted Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2017 **'Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.'In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the ye ...Show more
The Beasts of Paris by Stef Penney
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war. Anne is a former patient from a women's asylum trying to carve out a new life for herself in a world that doesn't understand her. Newcomer Lawrence is desperate to develop his talent as a photographer and escape the ...Show more
The Beautiful Fall by Hugh Breakey
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Read this now. Right now. Don't even think of going near that door. Not until you know what's going on. Your name is Robert Penfold. Age 31. The apartment you're standing in is your home. Every 179 days Robbie forgets everything. He knows this because last time it happened he wrote himself a letter expl ...Show more
The Beauty of the Wolf by Wray Delaney (Sally Gardner)
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: 1 very good
'What some might call beauty, I find monstrous' In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lord Francis Rodermere starts to lay waste to a forest. Furious, the sorceress who dwells there scrawls a curse into the bark of the first oak he fells: A faerie boy will be born to you whose beauty will be yo ...Show more
The Bed-Making Competition: Viva La Novell Winner 2 by Anna Jackson
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
From teenage rebellion to the most painful of goodbyes, The Bed-making Competition chronicles the coming of age of Hillary and Bridgid. Told over five sections, each separated by years and kilometres, we follow the sisters as they manage abandonment, motherhood, illness and the ineffable connections of ...Show more
The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In 1860, Merrick Tremayne is recuperating from an injury procured on expedition in China and is contemplating a quieter life in the clergy. But when the East India Trading Company coerces him into one final expedition for Her Majesty, he finds himself in Bedlam. Here Merrick discovers a legacy le ...Show more