In the Company of Strangers by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Ruby and Cat's friendship was forged on an English dockside over sixty years ago when, as terrified children, they were shipped off to Australia. It was a friendship that was supposed to last a lifetime but when news of Cat's death reaches Ruby in London, it comes after years of estrangement. Declan too ...Show more
Sufficient Grace (PB) by Amy Espeseth
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
At forty-nine, Celeste has long renounced the religion of her childhood. Yet she finds herself reluctantly accompanying her mother and sister to a pilgrimage site in Romania, where her devout mother seeks a miracle — a cure for her terminal illness. As Celeste tries to come to terms with her mother’s i ...Show more
The Tower Mill by James Moloney
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Brisbane, 1971. Susan Kinnane, precocious daughter of conservative parents, spurns the attention of fellow university student Mike Riley in favour of a passionate romance with activist Terry Stoddard. When the South African Rugby team tours, Terry, Susan and Mike join the anti-apartheid demonstrations o ...Show more
Whisky Charlie Foxtrot: A Novel by Annabel Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"It is less than twenty-four hours since Charlie received the phone call from his mother and in those hours his only thought has been that Whisky must not die. He must not die because he, Charlie, needs more time. He and Whisky have not been friends, have not talked or laughed together for months, years ...Show more
Tommo and Hawk (Potato Factory #2) by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: POTATO FACTORY BK2
Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale hunting in the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the Rocks in Sydney to the miners' riots a ...Show more
Great Western Highway by Anthony Macris
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Thirty-something Nick is walking down Parramatta Roads six lanes of thundering traffic to see his former girlfriend Penny for the first time since they agreed to be just friends. By the novels end, he is racing back up that same road so he doesnt lose her. Nick and Pennys awkward romance is played out a ...Show more
Dark Heart by Tony Park
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Lawyer Mike Ioannou is dead after a hit and run in Thailand. A home invasion threatens the life of medico Richard Dunlop. In Johannesburg, a car jacker nearly kills photo journalist Liesl Nel. Unrelated incidents, or something else entirely? Australian war crimes prosecutor Carmel Shang realises that al ...Show more
Hell Island by Matthew Reilly
$4.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Scarecrow
It is an island that doesn't appear on any maps. A secret place, where classified experiments have been carried out. Experiments that have gone terribly wrong. Four crack special forces units are dropped in. One of them is a team of Marines, led by Captain Shane Schofield, call-sign: SCARECROW. Nothing ...Show more
The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre. With promi ...Show more
The Convent by Maureen McCarthy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'I woke up with a feeling about today,' Stella says dreamily. 'Something truly amazing is going to happen.' 'To us or to the world?' I say. 'To you.' 'To me?' I laugh. 'Nothing ever happens to me, Stella.' 'But today it will.' 'Will it be good?' She looks thoughtful and then frowns. 'I ...I don't know.' ...Show more
Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - Text Classics by Dennis C. J.
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Introduced by Jack Thompson The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year. By the mid-1970s nearly three hundred thousand copies had been sold internationally. One of the most famous ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Bonsai by Lisa Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Have you ever felt the need to start again? Dumped by text message, Edie flees Sydney for the refuge of her childhood home, taking only a wilting bonsai as a reminder of her failure. But in this small coastal town, shy, awkward Edie has always lived in the shadow of her surf champion father. How can she ...Show more