Category: Contemporary | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Leigh Sales: “A work of literature that reads like an airport thriller. An incredible treat for fans of Margaret Atwood.” Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on O ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
February 29, 1944: I am about to jump out of an aeroplane for the first time … I don’t care that every man is looking at me as though I don’t belong. Besides, I’m hungover. And I think I might throw up … In 1936 intrepid young Australian journalist Nancy Wake is liv ...Show more
Category: Contemporary | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the sp ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
The best thing you can aspire to in this world, is company. Whether it's for pleasure or pain, a crowning or an execution: everything is better with company. You might say it all went to hell with Mrs. Thorkildsen, but you know what? It could have been worse, because Mrs. Thorkildsen had me to keep her ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroa ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It's a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive. We choose to breathe, don't we?Twenty-one-year-old Olivia hears the world in colour, but her life is mottled grey. Estranged ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
Based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944, an unforgettable tale of love and redemption from the bestselling author of The German Girl.Berlin, 1939: Bookstore owner and recent widow Amanda Sternberg is fleeing Nazi Germany with her two young daughters, heading to ...Show more
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
September 2, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-i ...Show more
Category: Contemporary | Series: Don Tillman
The Rosie Result is the triumphant final instalment of the internationally bestselling series that began with The Rosie Project. ------ Don Tillman - scientist, husband, father, and world's greatest problem-solver - met his wife Rosie by inventing The Wife Project. But ten years on from marrying 'the ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
A captivating story of love, nature and identity in Napoleon's France. France, 1794. In the aftermath of the bloody end to the French Revolution, Rose de Beauharnais stumbles from prison on the day she is to be guillotined. Within a decade, she'll transform into the scandalous socialite who marries Napo ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
NAMED ONE OF 2019'S BEST BEACH READS BY Oprah Magazine * New York Post * PopSugar * The Globe and Mail FEATURED IN Us Weekly * Parade * Hollywood Reporter * Chatelaine "Marissa Stapley's writing is a gift."--Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale The Harmony Resort promises h ...Show more
Category: Contemporary
They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together - birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they're a happy family. Johnny's wife, Jessie, who has the most money, insi ...Show more
