Songs for the Dead and the Living by Sara M Saleh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house above a paint shop on the outskirts of Beirut, with her large, chaotic, loving family. But she soon learns that as Palestinian refugees, her family's life in Lebanon is precarious. Songs for the Dead and the Living is a comingof-age ta ...Show more
The End of the Morning by Charmian Clift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time — symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped co ...Show more
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more
The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Amanda Lohrey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating ...Show more
The Accident by Fiona Lowe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn apart when a devastating accident uncovers a shocking web of lies. A gripping and thought-provoking new mystery from bestselling Australian author Fiona Lowe. Perfect for readers who enjoy Liane Moriarty and S ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
The Tea Ladies (PB) by Amanda Hampson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A wickedly witty cosy crime novel set in Sydney in the swinging sixties, ideal for fans of Richard Osman and Bonnie Garmus. They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965- After a chance encounter with a stranger, tea ladies Hazel, Betty and Irene become accidental sleuths, stumb ...Show more
Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: David Unaipon Award Winners Ser.
When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey ...Show more
Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Stella Shortlist 2019) by Jamie Marina Lau
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Embracing the noir tradition and featuring a prose style quite unlike any before, with references that will go both over your head and under your feet, Pink Mountain on Locust Island will flip readers upside ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an American corporation runs prison security, so the malware infects some 5000 American places of incarceration. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten t ...Show more
Stradbroke Dreamtime: Deluxe Edition by Oodgeroo Nunukul, B Bancroft
$29.95 AUD
Category: First Nations
Stradbroke Dreamtime is a collection of 27 short stories, ideal for reading in class, from acclaimed Aboriginal author Oodgeroo. the stories are traditional Aboriginal tales from Stradbroke Island, the tambourine Mountains and from the Old and New dreamtime. A bright, beautiful and unique colour illustr ...Show more
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahonyis a towering novel. This ...Show more