Category: Politics & Society
Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Crime & Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
In the 28th novel in Donna Leon's bestselling Commissario Brunetti series, Brunetti's father-in-law, the Count Falier, urges Brunetti to investigate and intervene in the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejeda, to adopt a much younger man as his son. U ...Show more
Category: Fiction - General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A beautiful, bittersweet and magical tale about the distance one man will travel for the sake of love from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop On his way to meet his son for the first time, hardened former war correspondent Henry Skinner is hit by a car after rescuing a c ...Show more
Category: Fiction - General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'You look the type to break your father's heart.''Yeah, but he broke mine first.' When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years lat ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Crime & Thriller | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser. | Reading Level: 2
From the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller The Ruin comes a compulsive new crime thriller featuring DS Cormac Reilly. Being brilliant has never been this dangerous ... When Dr Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit and run outside Galway University late one evening, she calls her p ...Show more
Category: Fiction - General
'Glamorous and nostalgic and very sexy... One of those books that stays with you' Paula Hawkins 'The new Gatsby... With shades of F Scott Fitzgerald, Revolutionary Road and even Mad Men. It is so, so good' Stylist (The Top 10 Books of 2019) September 1957 Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, ...Show more
Category: Travel Stories | Series: Travel Literature Ser.
Journey back in time with this collection of classic travel writing from great authors and adventurers. These extraordinary odysseys over land and sea captivated audiences and gave them a glimpse into countries, cities and cultures like never before. Tales include Robert Falcon Scott's doomed Antarctic ...Show more
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to ...Show more
Category: Fiction - General
The compelling new novel from the author of the bestselling Chocolat. Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is ...Show more
Category: Fiction - Crime & Thriller | Reading Level: 1
A compulsive, note-perfect debut for fans of The Virgin Suicides and Picnic at Hanging Rock 'We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were trying to recall to begin with.' Tikka Molloy ...Show more
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Munjed's new book is once more a journey, but this time takes him across the world on a quest to save others rather than himself. In Munjed Al Muderis's bestselling memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia a ...Show more
Category: Fiction - General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the author of The Paris Seamstress comes a story of courage, family and forgiveness. Manhattan, Paris, 1942: When Jessica May's successful modelling career is abruptly cut short, she is assigned to the war in Europe as a photojournalist for Vogue. But when she arrives the army men make her life as ...Show more
