Captives by Angela Meyer
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Short, intense and mesmerizing. Read these very short stories on a train, a tram, a bus, or waiting in the check out line. Captives by Angela Meyer will fit into your pocket, your handbag or tucked into the cover of your ipad. Captives opens with a husband pointing his gun at his wife. There's a woman w ...Show more
Outback Heart by Fiona Palmer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Indianna Wilson is a country girl through and through. She'll do anything she can to save her beloved home town from disappearing off the map - even if she has to die trying. She brings Troy Mitchell to her tiny outback town, with hopes that he can bring a breath of fresh air to the Saints football club ...Show more
Demons by Wayne Macauley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"They were going to tell stories. Let's go away for the weekend, said Megan, and leave our phones behind and turn off the computers and television and stop time because time is moving too fast and soon we'll all be saying where the hell did our lives go? We'll cook some food and drink some wine and each ...Show more
When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015. Running away from the mainland was supposed to make their lives better. But, for Isla and her brother, their mother's sadness and the cold, damp greyness of Hobart's stone streets seeps into everything. Then, one morning, Isla sees a red ship. That ...Show more
Ruby-Eyed Coucal by Bruce Pascoe
$18.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This novel's main characters are Fox, who has fled Australia following a possible murder charge and is in Irian Jaya fighting with freedom fighters, and his daughter Maree, who is trying to find him. Pascoe paints a vivid picture of the dispossession of the indigenous people of Irian Jaya and the fate o ...Show more
Brothers in Exile by Leon Isackson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Brothers in Exile is an exciting journey through Australian history from 1812 to 1937, as the author sets out to solve the secrets of a mysterious grandmother he never knew. The saga begins with three convict brothers, a well-to-do settler and a reverend as they arrive in the Macquarie penal colony of 1 ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men ...Show more
The Silver Moon: Reflections on life, death and writing by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A collection of fascinating life-lessons from Australia's favorite storyteller, including insights from his final months. Each of us has a place to return to in our minds, a place of clarity and peace, a place to think, to create, to dream. For Bryce Courtenay this place was a waterhole in Africa where ...Show more
The Glade Within the Grove: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1997 by David Foster
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A powerful, many layered, erudite retelling of the blood-soaked Attis myth strained through twentieth centuary Australian life. Winner Miles Franklin Award 1997.
Burial Rites (H/B) by Hannah Kent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson and his family, who are horrified and avoid Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes's spiritual gu ...Show more
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation.....This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and characters that will never let you go...'...there is ...Show more