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Sarah enjoys humorous tear-jerkers and offbeat - sometimes quite gothic - stories across an eclectic range of genres, with a perfectly steeped cup of Yorkshire tea.
One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattacharya
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerfully moving debut novel of modern India- of violence and prejudice, friendship, family and loyalty, and of a young man coming of age in a country on fire.It is 1992, and India is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence- an act in which his ...Show more
French Exit by Patrick deWitt
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers Frances Price is in dire straits. Scandals swirl around the recently widowed New York socialite, and her adult-aged, toddler-brained son Malcolm is no help. Cutting their losses, they grab their cat, Small Frank, and hea ...Show more
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
16.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
'Every page is crowded with invention, both funny and scary' PATRICK NESS 'A tale of unforgettable enchantment' NEW YORK TIMESNobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, raised and educated by ghosts. There are dangers and a ...Show more
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
18.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
Six starred reviews A bold and irreverent YA novel that powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable, The Rest of Just Live Here is from novelist Patrick Ness, author of the Carnegie Medal- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning A Monster Calls and the critically acclaimed Chaos W ...Show more
Bournville by Jonathan Coe
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of Middle England and Mr Wilder and Me comes a brilliant new state of the nation novel. In the Birmingham suburb of Bournville, a family celebrate VE Day in 1945. With the joy of such an occasion there also come larger national questions about the nature of the horrific war ...Show more
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static. Francesca is Caro's stepmother, and Pauly's mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high house was once her holiday home; now looked after by locals Grandy and Sally, she has turned it into an ...Show more
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
19.99 AUD
Category: Teenagers
Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark ha ...Show more
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKTOP TEN BOOKS OF 2020, NEW YORK TIMES'A hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy set in the Brooklyn projects of the late 1960s. This alone may qualify it as one of the year's best novels.' The Washington PostFrom the winner of a National Book Award and aut ...Show more
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in hi ...Show more
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