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Mammoth by Chris Flynn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a pterodactyl, a preh ...Show more
In the Time of Foxes by Lennan, Jo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray.' An escapee from the Family in Japan; an animal activist with something to hide; a café-owner in Sydney reconnecting with her est ...Show more
Scarecrow (#3 Scarecrow) by Matthew Reilly
$9.99 AUD
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
The Dickens Boy (PB) by Thomas Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of his under-achieving sons tarnishing his reputation at home, Charles Dickens sent two of them to Australia. The tenth child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proved unable ‘to apply himself ’ to school or lif ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the 'Scriptorium', a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The mind can take you anywhere you want ...Show more
Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem by Rick Held
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The hero of this book was not a saint, nor even a tzadik - the nearest Jewish equivalent - but he was a hero. Someone who risked his own life to make a difference to the life of another. Were his motives selfless? No. He was after all flesh and blood. A man. And a very young one. But life is not black a ...Show more
The Time Is Now, Monica Sparrow by Matt Howard
$29.99 AUD
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
The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guid ...Show more
The Reluctant Spy by Holly Kerr Forsyth
$29.99 AUD
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 for h ...Show more
We Were Never Friends by Margaret Bearman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Lotti lives under the shadow of a genius: her father George Coates is a brilliant and celebrated Australian painter. When Lotti meets the outcast waif Kyla at a suburban Canberra school, two worlds are set to collide. Slowly Kyla is drawn into the orbit of the Coates family. Or is it the other way aroun ...Show more
A Most Peculiar Act - A Novel by Marie Munkara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The story follows the trials and tribulations of Sugar, a 16 year-old Aboriginal fringe-camp dweller. Set in Darwin during the Japanese bombing raids, we meet characters such as: Horatio Humphris (Horrid Hump), Chief Protector of Aborigines, teetotaller and 42 year old virgin; Ralphie Brown, who has the ...Show more
