On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out.Not far from Da ...Show more
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Abandoned by her mother and seldom visited by her unpredictable, violent father, 10-year-old Justine is raised by her grandfather, Pop - a man tormented by visions of war.Through years of poverty and neglect, Justine finds solace in the staggering natural beauty of the nearby Murray River. But when outs ...Show more
Burnt by Karly Lane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Mira Ser.
He came home to heal. She came home to start over. Can first love reignite without one of them getting burnt? Sebastian Taylor and Rebecca Whiteman were country town high school sweethearts dreaming of a future together when an accident one night forever changed their destiny...Eighteen years after the ...Show more
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In the history of Australian literature few books have been more controversial than Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory. This is a tale of corruption stretching from street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in the land - and the terrible personal cost of the power such corruption brings. Jo ...Show more
Mrs. M by Luke Slattery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From one of Australia's foremost journalists, Luke Slattery, comes a bravura literary achievement, a rich and intense novel of an imagined history of desire, ambition and dashed dreams, and a portrait of one passionate, unforgettable woman - Elizabeth Macquarie. Elizabeth Macquarie, widow of the disgrac ...Show more
As the Lonely Fly by DOWSE, SARA
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'It was Clara. My name is Chava now.' 'Forgive me, Chava, ' said Gesia. 'But you know, I would never have taken you for a Zionist. Such a staunch one, in any case, to want to give up your name.' Three Russian-Jewish women are flung from their homes in the Ukraine and Bessarabia - the 'wild west' of th ...Show more
The Devil's Advocate by Morris West
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the enigmatic life and mysterious death of Giacomo Nerone has inspired talk of sainthood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent by the Vatican to investigate. As he tries to untangle the web of facts, rumours and outright lies that surround ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
The Four Legendary Kingdoms: A Jack West Jr Novel #4 by Matthew Reilly
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: JACK WEST JR
The thrilling bestseller from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the upcoming Jack West Jr novel The Three Secret Cities."If you thought [the previous Jack West novels] were page-turners, wait until you read The Four Legendary Kingdoms" West Australian"A thrilling, action ...Show more
The Ballad of Banjo Crossing (PB) by Tess Evans
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
A tender, heartwarming and utterly appealing novel about the power of community, love, loss and second chances. Jack McPhail is a man on the run from his past, a drifter who lands by accident in a sleepy outback Australian town called Banjo Crossing. Jack - almost despite himself - becomes slowly drawn ...Show more
The Frangipani Gardens by Barbara Hanrahan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: UQP Modern Classics
Nothing is as it seems in this twisted fairytale of moral ambiguity and corrupted innocence. Just as the tropical beauty of The Frangipani Gardens conceals its inherent menace, watercolour painter Doll lives a prim, respectable existence belying her wildest fantasies. But when her young niece and nephew ...Show more
No Turning Back by Roger Rees
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The dots on the plains far below were gazelles, zebras, elephants, buffalo and there were probably leopards in the thorn trees, and a lion pride or two. She felt the stirrings of an even deeper passion for Africa and, with it, a longing for a fulfilled life with Zeno. She wondered if they might have a c ...Show more