Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The stunningly powerful new novel from the author of The Slap. 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and violate men in front of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly i ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
#authorsforfireys. Favel Parrett: "If you buy any of my books in Jan, my author royalties (10% retail price)will go to help wildlife affected by bushfires. The charities I have chosen are @wireswildliferescue +@wildlifevictoria I will publish the figures of books sold (BookScan)and amount raised at the ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction
Kathy Lette: (author best known for her works 'Puberty Blues' & 'How To Kill Your Husband [And Other Handy Household Hints]', and friend of Bookoccino) "Trent Dalton’s raw, tender, original, riotous and rollicking tale about brother-love, resilience and a refusal to think that optimism is an ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 2019! A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Scarecrow
It is the greatest bounty hunt in history. The targets are the finest warriors in the world-commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. Among the names, one stands out. The enigmatic Marine, Shane Schofield, who goes by th ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience. In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, a ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.' Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he's in ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Best First Book prize. 'When Macha Connor came home from the war she walked into town as naked as the day she was born, except for well-worn and shining boots, a dusty slouch hat, and the .303 rifle she held across her waist.' Macha patrols Siddon Rock by night, ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1
Cast adrift by loss, Monica Sparrow is marooned in her semi in Neasden, the so-called 'loneliest village in London', her home stuffed with nothing she needs. Is it time for her to finally get her house in order? Can she isolate what really matters, and clear the junk? And while it's too late for her fam ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882-83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localise ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction
Tall, tanned and blonde, Rachel Edmistone, forty-something mother of three, lives in sparkling, harbourside Sydney and is married to the perfect man – Adrian, who has the looks to match his piles of cash.Or so she thinks.Rachel is the powerhouse behind the star-studded Butterfly Ball, a fundraiser ...Show more
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Peter Goldsworthy's new novel features a blind detective determined to deliver justice to the man who shot him, even though his failed assassin has broken out of jail and is equally determined to finish the job. Cleverly structured around the five senses, and with the action confined to one week, it's ...Show more
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