Item category 1: General Fiction

Cast gender: mixed.

On the face of it, Hannah and Humphrey Drayton were happily married. But after years of tyranny and loneliness, Hannah could no longer bear the stuffy City broker. The only relief she had was every Thursday evening, when Humphrey played bridge, and at the weekends, which he told her he spent with...

An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renou...

When Peter Hansome dies in a car crash, he leaves behind a wife and a mistress. As the women confront loss, sexuality and illusion, death becomes not an end but a beginning.

Australia saga.

War stories. This exquisitely wrought story of a boy named Jim growing up in North Carolina during the Depression with his mom and three uncles exhibits a clear-eyed maturity, and an understated daring, rarely seen in the most cutting-edge adult fiction. - Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Re-issue of this award-winning Aust'n novel.

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

At Erin's crocodile farm, things get seriously snappy! Then, while camping, Alex is scared by the Creeping Cave Monster. 7 yrs+

Family saga.

Jess Tavener's comfortable life in a Somerset market town is disturbed when a drawing owned by her husband comes to light. It makes Jess realise that her family and friends had secrets that affected all of their lives. She also understands that she is to experience loss before happiness can be re...

Third title in The grail quest series following Harlequin and Vagabond.

One of the great epics of western literature, 'The Iliad' recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem vivdly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction.

Griffin Silk has a secret in his heart, that nobody else knows until he meets Layla, a princess with a daisy-chain crown and he shares his inner thoughts with her. Together they find a way to deal with Griffin's secret. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

During the Depression, a rural black family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.

Aust'n. Mystery. Phryne Fisher, scented and surprisingly ruthless, is not one to let sleuthing an horrific crime get in the way of an elegant dalliance. The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of the Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful cou...

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of ...

Review: The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion ...

Review: 'The God of Small Things' explores the tragic fate of a family which 'tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how'. They are an eclectic mix: grandmother Mammachi; her spoilt Anglophile son, Chacko; her daughter Ammu; Ammu's inseparable twins Estha and Rahel; and Bab...

After moving to a new town, eight-year-old Mallory keeps throwing stones in the "Wishing Pond" but things will not go back to the way they were before, and she remains torn between old and new best friends.

Commissioned during the early Fifties to write an article on guerrilla warfare in Malaya, Graham Greene stopped off in Vietnam to visit a friend, and soon fell under the spell of a very different Indo China. This novel reflects accurately and powerfully the problems of war and of the people embro...

From cover: "On a small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef two communities come together in an uneasy alliance: a tourist resort and a scientific research station. At first glance, the island is a sexy resort, a naturalist's dream, a divers delight. But the island holds secrets and dangers as J...

Injured on the battlefield, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn awakens in a ladies' brothel, with no memory of who he is, in the care of the lovely Rachel York, who decides to use the dashing soldier she rescued to try to reclaim her stolen fortune.

Review: Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and th...

Review: 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and J...