Trip of a Lifetime by Liz Byrski
$18.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Heather Delaney is injured in a shocking act of violence, her life is thrown off course. Struggling to return to work, she is haunted by the incident. Was it random or personal? Will they try again? And Heather is not the only one who is rocked by the attack. Her brother, Adam, and his second wife, ...Show more
Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy - including the identity of the baby's father - hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as possible. Her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let this secret rest, even while her own life ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
Alan Marshall's classic account of his childhood spent on crutches after contracting polio at the age of six is funny, tough, moving, profoundly Australian, yet completely universal - and inspirational in the best sense.
In Mine Own Heart by Alan Marshall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
There lay over Melbourne, as over all Australia, a mass hopelessness that touched everyone, even those who felt secure. It was impossible to escape being affected by it. In the third book of Alan Marshall's three-part autobiography, his own struggle to assert himself socially and professionally despite ...Show more
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Dido Butterworth (Tim Flannery)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"Painted in white, red and black ochre, the heart-shaped mask was one of the greatest creations of primitive man. The size of a dining table, it was carved with crazed, spiky lines that told of its maker's dangerous insanity. The nose, with its wide-open nostrils, sat above a great slash of a mouth fill ...Show more
The Last Pulse by Anson Cameron
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A blackly funny novel about an unlikely hero, and his misadventures on the flood he has created. In the drought-stricken Riverland town of Bartel in South Australia, after the suicide of his wife, Merv Rossiter steals a boat. He trucks north with his eight-year-old-daughter Em into Queensland. There he ...Show more
Jack and Harry: No Turning Back by Tony McKenna; Mervyn Davis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The happy routine life of two Perth boys is shattered one November day in 1950 when they are falsely accused of theft. With fabricated evidence mounting against them they decide to run away from their homes and families to avoid prosecution and pooling their meager pocket money they back the winner of t ...Show more
Moving Tigers by Bob Franklin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Jean and her boyfriend travel to Nepal on a volunteering holiday, a Himalayan adventure and a chance to find themselves. But instead Jean finds herself tumbling into a vivid and unexplained psychosis. In traditional Nepalese game Moving Tigers, tigers hunt goats while the goats choke the tigers' moves. ...Show more
Anchor Point by Alice Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
As her parents clash over unwashed dishes and unlit fires, ten-year-old Laura works hard to keep the household running. When her mother disappears into the bush, Laura finds a farewell note and makes an impulsive decision that alters the course of her family's life. Despite her anger and grief, Laura he ...Show more
His Other House by Sarah Armstrong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'He was dismayed how readily he took to lying. He'd always thought of it as a decisive abandonment of the truth. Instead, he realised, it was simply a matter of one word slipping into the place of another.' Dr Quinn Davidson and his wife Marianna have endured years of unsuccessful IVF and several miscar ...Show more
Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women by BLACK INC. (ED.)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Something Special, Something Rarepresents outstanding short fiction by Australia's finest female writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary. A sleepy town is gripped by delusory grief after the movie being filmed there wraps and leaves. A lingering h ...Show more
Gallipoli Street by Mary-Anne O'Connor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An Anzac tale of three families whose destinies are entwined by war, tragedy and passion. At 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother's friend Jack Murphy and what ...Show more