Candelo by Georgia Blain
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Ursula's childhood is marked by a summer holiday in Candelo, a sleepy south coast town. It's the seventies and her mother takes foster boy, Mitchell, away with them. Charismatic, charming and troubled, Mitchell finds his way into their lives, his brief time with them altering who they are - forever. Yea ...Show more
Barrier by S. N. Chandran
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'The Barrier uses action-packed, tech-savvy speculative fiction to examine intractable problems of today's world.' Sydney Morning HeraldTwenty years ago an Ebola epidemic brought the world to the edge of oblivion.The West won the war, the East was isolated behind a wall, and a vaccine against Ebola was ...Show more
No More Boats [Miles Franklin 2018 Shortlist] by Felicity Castagna
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"New novel by Felicity Castagna, whose previous book, The Incredible Here and Now, won the 2015 Prime Ministers Award for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The subject is very topical. No More Boats tackles the fear of refugees head on, portraying th ...Show more
Beauty in Thorns by Kate Forsyth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Pre-Raphaelites were obsessed with liberating art and love from the shackles of convention. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was the self-professed leader of the mysterious brotherhood of young men who were convinced they could change the world. Rossetti was smitten with his favourite model, Lizzie Siddal. Li ...Show more
Lake Hill by Margareta Osborn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
All her life Julia Gunn has been weighed down - first by a controlling father, then by a staid older husband, and always by a long-buried secret from her teenage years. Now, widowed at just thirty-six, she's going to do something for herself. Except en route to a new life on the coast at Lakes Entrance ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 by Michael Slezak (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Would it be ethical to eat sentient aliens? What is the basis of differences between the sexes? Where do you find fossils of early multicellular life? Is there any hope for the Great Barrier Reef or Tasmanian forests in a warming climate? Were Aboriginal Australians the world's first astronomers? The Be ...Show more
Moment of Truth by Mandy Magro
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: MIRA
With over 65,000 copies sold in print, Mandy Magro is a leading writer of Australian rural fiction. Romance meets mystery in her newest book, where a woman's search for justice uncovers murky family secrets. The past she can't remember just won't let her go ...Alexis Brown was thirteen when her parents ...Show more
Animal People(Prize winner People's Choice 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) by Charlotte Wood
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Why I can't review Animal People. 'I read Charlotte Wood's novel Animal People twice. I think it's one of the best contemporary novels I have read. But I cannot review it. I tried a number of times and failed each time. I only recently realised why this is. I don't want to review Animal People. I want t ...Show more
Hinterland by Caroline Brothers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two young boys cross a river in the middle of the night. The river is also a border, and their lives depend on this journey. With nothing but the clothes on their backs, Aryan and his little brother Kabir travel by truck, boat, train, bus and on foot across a Europe they desperately hope will offer them ...Show more
Gerald Murnane: Collected Short Fiction by Gerald Murnane
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own. Released simultaneously with Farrar Straus Giroux's editions of Border Districts and Collected Short Fiction in New York, an event which is likely to get international media attention. This volu ...Show more
The Sisters' Song by Louise Allan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
As children, Ida loves looking after her younger sister, Nora, but when their beloved father dies in 1926, everything changes. The two young girls move in with their grandmother who is particularly encouraging of Nora's musical talent. Nora eventually follows her dream of a brilliant musical career, whi ...Show more
The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean by Mira Robertson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In 1944 Emily Dean is dispatched from Melbourne to stay with relatives in rural Victoria. At the family property, Mount Prospect, she finds that Grandmother is determined to keep up standards despite the effects of the war, while Della, the bible-quoting cook, rules the kitchen with religious fervour. I ...Show more