Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Grief, loss, pain, love, and the future - an achingly human debut short story collection, from the winner of the 2019 Richell Prize. 'Thrilling, prescient, and deeply moving ... an electrifying new voice in Australian fiction.' Emily Bitto 'clear eyes, sharp intellect and deep sorrow - both lament and p ...Show more
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them.When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them recon ...Show more
The Orphans by Fiona McIntosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Orphan Fleur Appleby is adopted by a loving undertaker and his wife and she quickly develops a special gift for helping bereaved families. Her ambition to be the first female mortician in the country is fuelled by her plan to bring more women into the male dominated funeral industry.Raised in the outbac ...Show more
Naked Ambition by Robert Gott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'You're a politician, a public figure. What on earth were you thinking?' Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White - a painting she intends to enter in this year's Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of ...Show more
Atlantic Black by A. S. Patric
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
`A powerful and mesmerising voyage into darkness. Atlantic Black creates an indelible portrait of humanity sailing towards war.¿Heather Rose, Winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. In this haunting new novel, Katerina Klova and her mother are crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner. When Anne suffers a psychotic ...Show more
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book A New York Times Notable Book of 1998 "There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such a strange and sly and swerving humour -- You will never forget what is at the heart of this novel -- one of the great and most surprising courtships in literat ...Show more
Vincent and Sien by Silvia Kwon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night, Sien and her daughter are on the brink of surrendering to the bitter cold, their exhaustion, their hunger, when a good Samaritan appears. Vincent van Gogh, a struggling artist, provides them with warmth and shelter for the night. Fascinated by Sien - her face, ...Show more
Shadowboxing by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
COMMENDED FOR THE 2011 KATE CHALLIS RAKA AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 QUEENSLAND PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS -- AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rend ...Show more
Heart of the Dreaming by Di Morrissey
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
At twenty-one Queenie Hanlon has the world at her feet. Startlingly beautiful, wealthy, and intelligent, she is the only daughter of Tingulla Station, the famed outback property in the wilds of western Queensland. At twenty-two, her life lies in ruins. A series of disasters has robbed her of everything ...Show more
Corfu by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent. In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man hes never met, a young Australian actor pieces together the strange life story of the Australian writer whose house hes living in. As he explores his surroundi ...Show more
The Little Boat on Trusting Lane by Mel Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Richard runs his alternative healing centre from an old houseboat in a scrapyard on Trusting Lane. The Little Mother Earth Ship provides spiritual sustenance at regular meetings of the Circle of IEWA. While Richard plies his new-age wisdom, disciples Finn and August help to run the centre. But warning l ...Show more
Benevolence by Julie Janson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For perhaps the first time in novel form, Benevolence presents an important era in Australia’s history from an Aboriginal perspective. Benevolence is told from the perspective of Darug woman, Muraging (Mary James), born around 1813. Mary’s was one of the earliest Darug generations to experience the impa ...Show more