| Author: | Elif Shafak |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 |
The new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul. 'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of bloo... read more
| Author: | James Patterson |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | BookShots |
James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. I know who killed my son. Molly Rourke's son has been murdered... and she knows who's responsible. Now she's taking the law into her own hands. Never underestimate a mother's love.
| Author: | Anne Holt |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | Hanne Wilhelmsen Series |
1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains with night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon t... read more
| Author: | James Patterson |
| Category: |
Fiction |
A baby on the way and two killers on the loose. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsay's homicide department to report a murder that hasn't yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says he's rea... read more
| Author: | Bernard Cornwell |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | Grail Quest |
Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero and the pursuit of a sword with mythical power - this is the remarkable new novel by Britain's master storyteller, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. The Hundred Years War rages on and the bloodiest battle... read more
| Author: | George Orwell |
| Category: |
Classic Fiction |
| Awards: | Short-listed for Australian Book Design Awards, Literary Fiction 2017 (Australia). |
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian taleOne of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. Winston Sm... read more
| Author: | Haruki Murakami |
| Category: |
Fiction |
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. ... read more
| Author: | Haruki Murakami |
| Category: |
Fiction |
The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of ... read more
| Author: | Haruki Murakami |
| Category: |
Fiction |
| Series: | 1q84 Ser. |
| Reading Level: | good |
"The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems... read more
| Author: | Jules Verne |
| Category: |
Classic Fiction |
Go 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea with Sterling's Illustrated Classics series, and see Jules Verne's fantastic water-world as never before: through more than 70 stunning steampunk images illustrated by the incredible William O'Connor. O... read more
| Author: | Jules Verne |
| Category: |
Classic Fiction |
| Series: | Unabridged Classics |
Originally published in 1870, this amazing undersea adventure is one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written. Jules Verne invites readers to go below the ocean's waves in the first-ever submarine with Captain Nemo and a range of fantastical sea creature... read more
| Author: | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Category: |
Classic Fiction |
Two frightened navigators, three frozen hibernauts, and a talkative computer named Hal ride on the spacecraft Discovery, hoping to unravel the mystery of a crystal monolith left on the moon by alien intelligence.