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
Catch Us the Foxes by Nicola West
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Some secrets you try to hide. Others you don't dare. Twin Peaks meets The Dry in a deliciously dark and twisted tale that unravels a small town. Ambitious young journalist Marlowe Robertson would do anything to escape the suffocating confines of her small home town. While begrudgingly covering the annu ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
The Settlement by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock Serong On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women.He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, ...Show more
The Tree Of Man by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary hous ...Show more
Fair Game A Tasmanian Memoir by Carmel Bird
$10.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This long essay is an engagingly personal, playful and thoughtful examination of the arrival in 1832 in Tasmania of a shipload of women, sent to redress the imbalance of genders in that colonial settlement. Carmel also has a collection of stories, My Hearts Are Your Hearts, released recently by Spineles ...Show more
Willowman by Inga Simpson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Allan Reader, one of the last traditional batmakers in the country, keeps his family business alive in a small workshop in Melbourne. When Todd Harrow, a gifted young batter, catches Allan's eye, a spark is lit and Allan decides to make a Reader bat for him, selecting the best piece of willow he's harve ...Show more
The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer by Ilsa Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Two women abduct and hide out with their four-year-old granddaughter Avery, who they suspect is being harmed. They both love Avery ... shame they can't stand each other. A wise and witty novel for readers of Sophie Green and Brooke Davis. What would you do to protect a child?Beth's daughter Cleo and Shi ...Show more
The Vitals by Tracy Sorensen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Deep inside Tracy's body live the organs of the peritoneal cavity. Ute, a wandering womb. Rage, an existential spleen. Gaster, a gleeful gorger. Liv, a workaholic liver. But there is also Baby, an ever-growing tumour. Together, the organs must fight for homeostasis ... and Tracy's survival. The Vitals ...Show more
Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A multi-award-winning story collection from bestselling Indigenous writer Tony Birch.Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because ...Show more