Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake. In my family it was a series of small explosions; consistent, passionate, pathetic. Cruel words, crude threats...We spurred each other on till we reached a crescendo of pain and we retired exhaused to our ...Show more
Moth To The Flame (#3 Woody Creek) by Joy Dettman
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: WOODY CREEK BK3
The year is 1946. The war ended five months ago. Jim Hooper, Jenny Morrison's only love, was lost to that war. And if not for Jenny, he would never have gone. "An eye for an eye," Vern Hooper says. An unforgiving man, Vern wants custody of Jenny's son, his only grandson, and is quietly planning his day ...Show more
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (short stories) by Vincent Lam
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An astonishing literary debut centred around four students as they apply to medical school, qualify as doctors and face the realities of working in medicine, from a powerful new voice in fiction.In this beautifully written collection, Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both comm ...Show more
The Lost Life by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
They may never have a life together‚ but they will have their moment. They will have this much. England‚ September 1934. Two young lovers‚ Catherine and Daniel‚ have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton‚ an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps‚ they hide‚ ...Show more
North Star by Karly Lane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Since her divorce a year ago, Kate Thurston feels like she's lurched from one disaster to another. When her grandfather bequeaths her North Star, a large country property, it feels like the perfect opportunity to leave city life behind and start anew. Within hours of arriving, Kate encounters lo ...Show more
THE INDIGENOUS LITERATURE OF AUSTRALIA MILLI MILLI WANGKA by MUDROOROO
$29.95 AUD
Category: First Nations
Here is a wide-ranging, critical survey of the literature, both oral and written, of the indigenous people of Australia. Mudrooroo is in a unique position to tell the history of indigenous literature and to comment on the key writers and texts. This is an essential starting point for anyone wishing to k ...Show more
Harry Curry - Counsel of Choice by Stuart Littlemore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Harry Curry Ser.
Ugly, irascible, intolerant, clever. From one of our sharpest legal minds comes a brilliant new character, Harry Curry - scion of the establishment and criminal defender extraordinaire. A class traitor, some say. When Harry's robust advocacy leads to his suspension for professional misconduct, he teams ...Show more
The Chase by Christopher Kremmer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"They're all doing it...It's not so much a contest between horses, as a race to find the best recipe." When young scientist Jean Campbell is hired to eliminate drugs in sport she enters a murky world where power, privilege and corruption mix easily. In 1940s Sydney, Jean and her charismatic boss Howar ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the oldest cities of the world to live in the newest city of the world - she had ...Show more
That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 - Picador 40th by Kim Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance, but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together..." Told through the eyes of black and white, young and old, this is a story about a fledgling Western ...Show more
Wind In The Wires by Joy Dettman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The wind is whispering in Woody CreekChange is in the air It's 1958 and Woody Creek is being dragged kicking and screaming into the swinging sixties. Jenny's daughters, Cara and Georgie, are now young women. They have inherited their mother's hands, but that is where their similarity ends. Raised separa ...Show more
Murder at Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher #12) by Kerry Greenwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The divine Phryne Fisher returns to lead another dance of intrigue. Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead ... under very suspicious circumstances.Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert and ...Show more