The Whitewash by Siang Lu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Siang Lu's searing debut is a black comedy about the whitewashing of the Asian film industry, told in the form of an oral documentaryIt sounded like a good idea at the time- A Hollywood spy thriller, starring, for the first time in history, an Asian male lead. With an estimated $350 million production b ...Show more
Search History by Amy Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Rebecca meets Fleabag in a sharp and funny debut novel about dating in the internet age. Have you ever felt the rapidly escalating horror of liking a years-old Instagram photo? Have you ever unintentionally let slip to someone something you could only know from stalking their social media? Have you ever ...Show more
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with ...Show more
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress ...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
O by Steven Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales...' Occupied France, 1943. France's most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a m ...Show more
The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Carry me, son. Do not leave me behind.Are you listening to me?Of course you're listening, you say, and add the F-word. Off you go to cope with a storm. Lucerne armfuls for horses. For cows, plain hay. Alone in the paddocks of his grass hotel a man tends to his beloved horses, Socks and Boy. The voice o ...Show more
Romulus, My Father: Text Classics by Raimond Gaita
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Romulus Gaita fled Yugoslavia aged thirteen, and came to Australia with his wife and their son soon after World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary and moving tale to tell of growing up with his father in country Victoria. Romulus, My Father is t ...Show more