The Street Sweeper by PERLMAN, ELLIOT
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.' - The Times (UK)How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on th ...Show more
Honour & Other People's Children: Text Classics by Helen Garner
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Two novellas, delving into our connections with those we love, and the pain of breaking those connections. Introduced by Michael Sala.In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, and share the parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathle ...Show more
Suitcase of Dreams by Tania Blanchard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich, a sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity, inspired by a true story After enduring the horror of Nazi Germany and the chaos of postwar occupation, Lotte Drescher and her family arrive in Australia in 1956 full of hope for a new life. It's a land ...Show more
Crippled Immortals by Chris Murray
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A martial-arts master escapes from a prison camp in wartime China and flees to Malaya. His hopes for a quiet life are dashed when he saves a bus driver from a lynch mob. The master agrees to impart his secrets to five disciples. Although the organisation they found becomes internationally renowned, the ...Show more
Fusion by Kate Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Conjoined twins Sea and Sabine live shut away in a cottage in the woods, deep in the Australian bush, together with Wren - the young man who helps care for them. Each are damaged but have found peace in the woods, and the three live in relative harmony and are largely self-sufficient. One day Wren disc ...Show more
Zebra and other stories by Debra Adelaide
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The PM stretched out a hand. The black and white head extended, and as the zebra walked down the ramp and into the morning, her first in her new land, and a particularly bright morning as well, the PM realised that Mr Beamish was a marvel, a genius. A stranger, half a world, a continent, away, and yet h ...Show more
Ripples on a Pond (#5 Woody Creek) by Joy Dettman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Woody Creek
The old timber town of Woody Creek has a way of getting under people's skin...But as the clock ticks over to 1970, Georgie's determined that the new decade will be the one that sees her finally break free of it. For Cara, Woody Creek will forever be tied to a devastating mistake that cannot be undone. S ...Show more
The Rosie Result (C-format) by Graeme Simsion
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Don Tillman Ser. | Reading Level: very good
I was standing on one leg shucking oysters when the problems began...' Don and Rosie are back in Melbourne after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important project. Their son, Hudson, is having trouble at school- his teachers say he isn't fitting in with the other kids. Meanwhi ...Show more
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea by Mark Douglas-Home
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: The Sea Detective
The daughter who nobody wanted learns the truth about the mother she never knew. A page-turning, heart-breaking mystery. "full of surprises...this is a classic whodunit." (Scotsman). Cal McGill is a unique investigator and oceanographer who uses his expertise to locate things - and sometimes people - lo ...Show more
Year of the Beast (Glenroy Book #6) by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Glenroy Ser. | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
One of Australia's finest and most critically acclaimed writers returns with a powerful novel that goes back to the very beginning of the story, to bring his sweeping Glenroy series to a magnificent close. Melbourne, 1917: the times are tumultuous, the city is in the grip of a kind of madness. The Grea ...Show more
Stone Country by Nicole Alexander
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From nineteenth-century Adelaide and the red dirt of mid-north South Australia, to the cattle stations and buffalo plains of the far north Ross Grant?s journey is one of desire, adventure and determination, to the heart of stone country and beyond. South Australia, 1919.Ross Grant has always felt like ...Show more
Islands by Peggy Frew
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A stunning literary novel from the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted Hope Farm. There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each o ...Show more