‘Herr Hilary’ runs the hospital cafeteria strictly with the accident-prone Joy and young volunteer Chloe. The ‘tea ladies’ are a...

This book is a hoot! It tackles ageing, loving and relationships in a very refreshing manner. Peggy Smart at 79 years has fallen hard for...

You don't have to love birds to enjoy this book. It will open your eyes afresh to colonial Australia and the discovery of our wonderful...

This is the story of three different Baghdadi women whose lives intertwine, but not through choice. It is the era of Saddam Hussein. Iraq...

Anne Tyler has created a wonderful, almost whimical character in Micah Mortimer. He's a virtual hermit until a young man appears on his...

This is the very moving story of a lifetime of love between Dr Henry Parker, a ship's doctor, and his wife. They met on her first cruise,...

This is poignant, heartbreaking and beautifully written story about rewilding the remote Scottish highlands with wolves which once roamed...

This autobiography is both heart breaking and uplifting as Sam Bloom tells her story which inspired the international bestseller Penguin...

This is not a book for the faint hearted. The protagonist, or should I say perpetrator, is on a quest to reenact the 16th century...

Superbly crafted; heart-breaking and heart-warming. Sam Watson, aka Honeybee, is a young man who is struggling with his identity. Almost...

This is a fictionalised account of the banning of Boris Pasternak's novel, Dr Zhivago, by the USSR and the CIA's decision to publish his...

Two young women fleeing their past end up in New York. Alice Lee leaves her country town and an affair with a schoolteacher lured by the...

An intriguing thriller that you just cannot put down. A feeling of dread develops as unlucky Emily gaily heads off to her boss’s retreat...

We first meet Klara in a department store that sells Artificial Friends like her as companions for children. Klara becomes enchanted with...

A superb second novel from the author of Boy Swallows Universe. The story is set in Darwin in 1942 when the city is bombed by the...