Silver Clouds by Fleur McDonald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When marketing executive Tessa Mathison leaves London to attend her great-aunt's funeral in Australia, her life is in turmoil. An indiscretion during a boozy night out has resulted in Tessa's name being mud in London's cliquey marketing scene, and soon after she arrives in her homeland she discovers she ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Gilgamesh is the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choos ...Show more
A World of Other People - Eliot Quartet series #2 by Steven Carroll
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society's thin-li ...Show more
I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Detective Inspector Sean Duffy returns for the incendiary sequel to "The Cold Cold Ground". Sean Duffy knows there's no such thing as a perfect crime. But a torso in a suitcase pretty close. Still, one tiny clue is all it takes, and there it is. A tattoo. So Duffy, fully fit and back at work after the s ...Show more
Scatter the Stars by Di Morrissey
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A mesmerising novel of the film industry and one man's life that charts a path for all of us.Larrikin Australian actor Randy Storm had it all. Swept up by Hollywood in the 1950s, he had the looks, charm and talent to take on the world. But by the 1990s he's forgotten, burned out after a life of movie st ...Show more
The Opal Desert by Di Morrissey
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Arcadia out soon.Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her dreams.Shirley, approaching 80, ...Show more
The French Promise by Fiona McIntosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Luc and Lisette Ravens - a former French resistance fighter and a one-time British spy - have somehow survived the war, but recovering from the horrors of those years is a challenge they're yet to overcome. Casting their fate to the winds, they sail to Tasmania, hoping to rebuild their lives and plant n ...Show more
Ocean Child by Tamara McKinley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
1920. Having disobeyed the wishes of her aristocratic family, Lulu Pearson, a young and talented Tasmanian sculptress, finds herself alone in London in the wake of the Great War. The future is looking bright until, on the eve of her first exhibition, Lulu learns she has inherited a racing colt called Oc ...Show more
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
One morning Ruth wakes thinking a tiger has been in her seaside house. Later that day a formidable woman called Frida arrives, looking as if she's blown in from the sea. In fact she's come to care for Ruth. Frida and the tiger: both are here to stay, and neither is what they seem. Which of them can Ruth ...Show more
Holiday in Cambodia by Laura Jean McKay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Beyond the killing fields and the temples of Angkor Wat is Cambodia: a country with a genocidal past and a wide, open smile. A frontier land where anything is possible - at least for Western expatriates. In these loosely linked stories, Laura Jean McKay takes us deep into this complex country, exploring ...Show more
Gotland by Fiona Capp
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Shy and idealistic, Esther Chatwin is Australia's reluctant First Lady. She longs to return to the anonymity of her old life. But her husband's sudden political success has turned the media spotlight on her and her only escape is to Gotland, the fabled island in the Baltic Sea that she loves. A special ...Show more
Floodline by Kathryn Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Floodline is set in a fictional city which is destroyed by a flood on the eve of a huge gay mardis gras. Mikey Brown travels to Horneville with her sons Talent and Mustard (named for the parables). Mikey is driven, feisty, dynamic - and the host of a Christian shopping channel. The journey is more than ...Show more