The Farmers Wife by Rachael Treasure
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Rebecca Saunders married larrikin Charlie Lewis and they settled down together on her beloved property, Waters Meeting, she thought she knew her future. But ten years on, two kids later, and with a failing farm, Rebecca is beginning to face some hard questions. Where did the free-spirited jillaroo ...Show more
The Rabbits by Sophie Overett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the winner of the Penguin Literary Prize. A multigenerational family story with a dose of magical realism. It is about family secrets, art, very mild superpowers, loneliness and the strange connections we make in the places we least expect. The disappearance of Bo Rabbit in 1984 left the Rabbit w ...Show more
Feast by Emily O'Grady
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yellow House. Three women. Three secrets. One weekend. Alison is an actress who no longer acts, Patrick a musician past his prime. The eccentric couple live an isolated, debauched existence in an old manor ho ...Show more
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from the award-winning Paul Dalla Rosa. 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark? This is a sharp collection that will grip you with strange force; the people here are despera ...Show more
The Word by William Lane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
William 's Lane's disarming new novel, The Word, brilliantly satirises the ways in which we use language to define our lives. Kenric is an oddball advertising eccentric who possesses an unusual gift for language. The brands he names, sell. Yet he comes to believe advertising uses language too cynically. ...Show more
From Where I Fell by Susan Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Two deep, bright, razor-sharp women at opposite ends of the earth tearing the band-aids off their souls, exposing truths and lies buried beneath marriage, motherhood and the sacrificial siege of mid-to-late-life maintenance. This is Susan Johnson at her most original, daring, bone-deep and deliciously ...Show more
Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Set in hardscrabble farming country around the show jumping circuit that flourished in Australia prior to the Second World War, Foal's Bread tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and their fortunes as dictated by the vicissitudes of the land. When Noah Childs meets Roley Nancarrow ...Show more
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction - the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she dec ...Show more
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of The Rose Code and The Alice NetworkIn the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko's life revolves around her young son - until Hitler's invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to s ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick WhitePatrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogr ...Show more
Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work. Ghost Cities - inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China - follows multiple narratives, including one in whi ...Show more