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
Candy by Luke Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy those were the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar...It's like you're cruising along in a beautiful car o ...Show more
The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one that got away. When she turned down his proposal three years ago, she broke his heart. Now that Sophie is single, longing for a baby and nearly 40, he's starting to look a lot more attractive... Sophie is just as shocked as Thomas when his Au ...Show more
You Be Mother by Meg Mason
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies. The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pa ...Show more
Only Sound Remains (2024 Miles Franklin longlist) by Hossein Asgari
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is surprised when Ismael, his father who has never left Iran, announces that he is travelling to Adelaide to visit him. During his short stay, Ismael tells Saeed the s ...Show more
Burn by Melanie Saward
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Growing up in small-town Tasmania, Andrew struggled at home, at school, at everything. The only thing that distracted or excited him was starting little fires. Flames boosted his morale and purified his thoughts, and they were the only thing in his life he could control. Until one day things got out of ...Show more
After the Rain by Aisling Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in danger of being swept away. Her husband, Benjamin, a linguist, is a conundrum. He has changed. Or has she? The stories and superstitions of her childho ...Show more
Forty Nights (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Pirooz Jafari
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This story came to me and entered my soul. It did not need a key or an invite, for it already belonged. It walked in, shook my foundation and set my heart on fire. We danced around the flames and with every twirl, I grabbed a few words until I was burnt to ashes. Tishtar runs a small legal practice in ...Show more