The Opal Desert by Di Morrissey
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Arcadia out soon.Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her dreams.Shirley, approaching 80, ...Show more
The French Promise by Fiona McIntosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Luc and Lisette Ravens - a former French resistance fighter and a one-time British spy - have somehow survived the war, but recovering from the horrors of those years is a challenge they're yet to overcome. Casting their fate to the winds, they sail to Tasmania, hoping to rebuild their lives and plant n ...Show more
Ocean Child by Tamara McKinley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
1920. Having disobeyed the wishes of her aristocratic family, Lulu Pearson, a young and talented Tasmanian sculptress, finds herself alone in London in the wake of the Great War. The future is looking bright until, on the eve of her first exhibition, Lulu learns she has inherited a racing colt called Oc ...Show more
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
One morning Ruth wakes thinking a tiger has been in her seaside house. Later that day a formidable woman called Frida arrives, looking as if she's blown in from the sea. In fact she's come to care for Ruth. Frida and the tiger: both are here to stay, and neither is what they seem. Which of them can Ruth ...Show more
Holiday in Cambodia by Laura Jean McKay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Beyond the killing fields and the temples of Angkor Wat is Cambodia: a country with a genocidal past and a wide, open smile. A frontier land where anything is possible - at least for Western expatriates. In these loosely linked stories, Laura Jean McKay takes us deep into this complex country, exploring ...Show more
Gotland by Fiona Capp
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Shy and idealistic, Esther Chatwin is Australia's reluctant First Lady. She longs to return to the anonymity of her old life. But her husband's sudden political success has turned the media spotlight on her and her only escape is to Gotland, the fabled island in the Baltic Sea that she loves. A special ...Show more
Floodline by Kathryn Heyman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Floodline is set in a fictional city which is destroyed by a flood on the eve of a huge gay mardis gras. Mikey Brown travels to Horneville with her sons Talent and Mustard (named for the parables). Mikey is driven, feisty, dynamic - and the host of a Christian shopping channel. The journey is more than ...Show more
What Was Left by Eleanor Limprecht
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Rachel is pregnant with Lola, she imagines motherhood will involve pushing her sleeping infant in a pram through sun-dappled parks, suffused with the purest love she has ever felt. Then she gives birth to a screaming, colicky child in a country far from home. Feeling isolated and unsupported, she i ...Show more
Eyrie by Tim Winton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled ...Show more
The Birdwatcher by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This is a story about birdwatchers. David is one, and Clare's father was one. David has a bad history with girlfriends as he is a 'twitcher'; he spends all his time and money chasing birds around Australia so he can add them to his list. It's not a hobby that attracts many young and desirable women, and ...Show more
Tailor's Girl by Fiona McIntosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A humble soldier, known only as 'Jones', wakes in hospital with no recollection of his past. The few fleeting fragments of memory he glimpses are horrifying moments from the battlefield at Ypres. His very identity becomes a puzzle he must solve. Then Eden Valentine comes gliding into his world, a stunni ...Show more
Pastel Orphans by Gemma Liviero
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
As a small boy, Henrik watches his world crumble around him as Germany falls under Nazi control and his Jewish friends are sent away. In his own unique telling, Henrik confides in the reader the events surrounding World War II, as his family is plunged into fear and uncertainty. When his sister is stole ...Show more