The Sunken Road by Garry Disher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
At the height of the Great Depression, with farmers walking off the land and the city's creeks lined with kerosene-tin shanties, a young mother is taken by a shark in the shallows at Henley Beach. Her grieving husband flees north with his baby son to the town of Pandowie, far from the treacherous ocean. ...Show more
Hydra (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Adriane Howell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'From the treacherous auction houses of Melbourne to the sun-struck islands of Greece, Hydra took me places I never expected to go. Adriane Howell writes with the dreamy precision of Marguerite Duras, the humour-laced disquiet of Patricia Highsmith. A fever dream of a debut - elegant, savage, and deligh ...Show more
Ordinary Gods and Monsters by Chris Womersley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It could have been any summer's evening, but of course it wasn't.It was the end of some things, the beginning of so many others.Nick Wheatley has finished high school, but he isn't ready for the rest of his life. His parents are getting divorced, his sister is downright weird and his best friend and nei ...Show more
Little Gods by Jenny Ackland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Olive had reached for happiness as a child not yet knowing that the memories she was concocting would become deceptive. That memories get you where they want you, not the other way around. The setting is the Mallee: wide, flat scrubland in north-western Victoria, country where men are bred quiet, women ...Show more
Name That Flower by CLARKE Ian/LEE Helen
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
Essential and clear information on how to identify flowering plants. For over fifteen years, Name That Flower has provided thousands of serious gardeners and keen botanists, professional and amateur, with a wonderfully clear, concise guide to identifying flowering plants cultivated and in the wild, Aust ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright. Accompanied by new editions of Wright’s classic novels, Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to be released by Giramondo in May 2023. Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness ...Show more
God Forgets About the Poor by Peter Polites
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
I will tell you why you should draft my story. Because migrant stories are broken. Some parts in a village where we washed our clothing with soot. Some parts in big cities working in factories. How we starved for food in Greece and starved for Greece in Australia. You don’t know the first thing about m ...Show more
At The Foot Of The Cherry Tree by Alli Parker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
TikTok made me buy it! A heart-warming emotional new story of forbidden love and family heartbreak from an unforgettable BookTok 2023 romance sensation debut author A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese war bride and a love that changed a nat ...Show more
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Don Tillman Ser.
'We've got something to celebrate,' Rosie said. I am not fond of surprises, especially if they disrupt plans already in place. I assumed that she had achieved some important milestone with her thesis. Or perhaps she had been offered a place in the psychiatry-training programme. This would be extremely g ...Show more
Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at their tea plantation in West Java. One of their guests, Mattijs, a Dutch pilot, hopes to forge a future in the Dutch East Indies, ...Show more
Vincent and Sien by Silvia Kwon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night, Sien and her daughter are on the brink of surrendering to the bitter cold, their exhaustion, their hunger, when a good Samaritan appears. Vincent van Gogh, a struggling artist, provides them with warmth and shelter for the night. Fascinated by Sien - her face, ...Show more
Seven Poor Men of Sydney by Christina Stead
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Originally published in 1934, Seven Poor Men of Sydney is Christina Stead's first novel, a brilliant portrayal of a group of men and women living in Sydney in the 1920s amid conditions of poverty and social turmoil. Set against the vividly drawn backgrounds of Fisherman's (Watson's) Bay and the innercit ...Show more