Category: General
If only they'd said no...What if they hadn't gone? That's the question Clementine can't stop asking herself. It was just an ordinary backyard barbeque on a Sunday afternoon. They didn't know their hosts that well. They were friends of friends. They could so easily have said no. But she and her husband S ...Show more
Category: Literature
GHOST EMPIRE is a rare treasure - an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, realised by a master storyteller. In 2014, Richard Fidler and his son Joe made a journey to Istanbul. Fired by Richard's passion for the rich history of the dazzling Byzantine Empire - centred ar ...Show more
Category: General
What does it mean to live happily ever after? At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story, the answer to a question t ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize 'Astonishing and unsettling ...A masterwork' San Francisco Chronicle 'Announces Yanagihara as a major American novelist' Wall Street Journal Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic abou ...Show more
Category: General
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read, from ordinary people and established writers including Malcolm Gladwell, Sebastian Junger and Nathan Englander. Introduced by Neil Gaiman
Category: General | Reading Level: General Adult
Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. New York Times Bestseller Ann Patchett's award winning, bestselling novel thatbalances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language--now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moo ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
'What would you do if you found a letter in the attic, addressed to you, from your husband - to be opened in the event of his death? Another masterclass from the author of Big Little Lies' GRAZIA _______________ Mother of three and wife of John-Paul, Cecilia discovers an old envelope in the attic. Writt ...Show more
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The no 1. New York Times bestseller from the author of The Husband's Secret and new novel Nine Perfect Strangers.NOW AN EMMY AWARD WINNING HBO TELEVISION SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON & NICOLE KIDMANParents behaving badly ... a tragic accident ... or murder? What isn't in doubt is that someone i ...Show more
Category: Picture Books (Hardback) | Series: Growing Hearts
Sometimes my heart feels like a big yellow star, shiny and bright.I smile from ear to ear and twirl around so fast, I feel as if I could take off into the sky.This is when my heart is happy. Happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness . . . our hearts can feel so many feelings Some make us feel as light ...Show more
Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers | Series: The Treehouse Books
The 78-Storey Treehouse is the sixth book in Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic cartoon-style illustrations. Join Andy and Terry in their spectacular new 78-storey treehouse. They've added 13 n ...Show more
Category: General
Compelling, moving and memorable. Graeme Simsion. The Waiting Room captures the sights, sounds, accents and animosities of a country overflowing with stories. Dina is a family doctor living in the melting-pot city of Haifa, Israel. Born in Australia in a Jewish enclave of Melbourne to Holocaust survivor ...Show more
Category: 9-12 Years Middle Readers | Series: The World's Worst Children
From the world's favourite author, David Walliams - ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters; all in a gorgeously gifty FULL COLOUR format! Are you ready to meet the World's Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls! * Like Sofia Sofa - a TV super-fan so stuck ...Show more
