Scission by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tim Winton's first collection of stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking. These spare, jagged stories, in which people struggle with change and disintegration, are vintage Winton.
The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A father's obsession. A daughter's quest.Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern-too old, now-for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there ...Show more
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Father is Martin Dean.He taught his son always to make up his mind, and then change it. An impossible, brilliant, restless man, he just wanted the world to listen to him - and the trouble started when the world did.The Uncle is Terry Dean.As a boy, Terry was the local sporting hero. As a man, he bec ...Show more
Down the Hume by Peter Polites
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'He touched my face. When his hand went along my bruised top lip and my almost broken nose, I winced from the pain. His fist went into a deep denim pocket. Pulled out a Syrinapx bottle, twisted the cap off and handed me two light blue pills.' How did Bucky get here? A series of accidents. A tragic love ...Show more
The Wonders by Paddy O'Reilly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
What happens when three otherwise normal people undergo radical medical treatments that make them international curiosities? They become wonders. Leon has a small visible mechanical heart; Kathryn has been cured of a rare genetic disorder but is now covered in curly black wool; while performance artist ...Show more
In Moonland by Miles Allinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'A parent's love for a child, you probably know this yourself, it's pretty bottomless. It goes down into the guts of the world. But a child's love for a parent is different. It goes up. It's more ethereal. It's not quite present on the earth.' In present-day Melbourne, a man attempts to piece together t ...Show more
Guilt by Matt Nable
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Guilt starts off with a group of friends getting ready for an eighteenth birthday party. Life is exciting and the world is at their feet. Jump forward twenty years and they are all struggling with where they are at. Tommy has just got out of prison. Lani, the girl he loved at school, is unhappily marrie ...Show more
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award comes Lucy Treloar's new novel. Some things collapse slow, and cannot always be rebuilt, and even if a thing can be remade it will never be as it was. Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the fa ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life: Text Classics by Marcus Clarke
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wrongfully convicted, a young aristocrat is sent to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. There he is forced to endure tremendous suffering, from the cruelty of those in power to the harsh untamed country. Dawes remains determined to clear his name, no matter the trials that come his way.
Small Joys of Real Life by Allee Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her bed, Pat said, 'You can't live your life saying you'll get around to doing something you know will make you happy. You just have to do it.' Eva didn't know how devastating those words would turn out to be. ...Show more
Love at First Flight by Tess Woods
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
What if the love of your life is not your husband? A compelling novel that will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty, viewers of Offspring, The Good Wife and movies like Up in the Air. 'Looking back on it now, I can see it was instant. The second we locked eyes. Boom. Just like that. The me I had spent a li ...Show more