Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (short stories) by Vincent Lam
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An astonishing literary debut centred around four students as they apply to medical school, qualify as doctors and face the realities of working in medicine, from a powerful new voice in fiction.In this beautifully written collection, Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both comm ...Show more
The Rouseabout by Rachael Treasure
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Kate Webster is a loveable larrikin who likes to play hard now and worry about the consequences later. She can't help mucking up the opportunities life gives her. Rocked by the death of her mother, she takes on a dare at one of Australia's wildest rural social events - a Bachelors & Spinsters ball - ...Show more
The Rip by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Set against a backdrop - the Australian coast - as randomly and imminently violent as it is beautiful, The Rip reveals the fragility of relationships between husbands and wives, children and parents, friends and lovers. You will find yourself set down in a modern Garden of Eden with a disgraced Adam see ...Show more
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller 'A novel of breathtaking scope' Guardian 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration c ...Show more
Monsoon by Di Morrissey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Monsoon is a journey into the hearts and memories of those caught in a certain time in a particular place from Australia's favourite storyteller with the new novel Arcadia out soon. Sandy Donaldson has been working for a volunteer organisation in Vietnam for the past four years. As her contract nears it ...Show more
Pearl in a Cage: A Woody Creek Novel 1 by Joy Dettman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
<b>The first book in the dark and addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman</b> <b> "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" <i>The Age</i></b> Spanning two momentous decades and capturing rural Australia's complex and mysteriou ...Show more
The Lost Life by Steven Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
They may never have a life together‚ but they will have their moment. They will have this much. England‚ September 1934. Two young lovers‚ Catherine and Daniel‚ have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton‚ an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps‚ they hide‚ ...Show more
The Family Law by Benjamin Law
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"My family aren't the outdoors type. Despite being raised on the coast, Mum detested visits to the beach (all the sand it brought into the house), while Dad disapproved of wearing thongs. We never camped. All those things involved in camping - pitching a tent; cooking on open fires; the insects; shittin ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
Thorn On The Rose (Woody Creek #2) by Joy Dettman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: WOODY CREEK BK2
It is 1939 and Jenny Morrison, distraught and just fifteen years of age, has fled the tiny logging community of Woody Creek for a new life in the big smoke. But four months later she is back - wiser, with an expensive new wardrobe, and bearijng another dark secret...She takes refuge with Gertrude, her d ...Show more
Cloudstreet: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1992 - TV tie-in by Tim Winton
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch. For twenty years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home fo ...Show more
At Home with the Templetons by Monica Mcinerney
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When the Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in country Australia, they set the locals talking and with good reason. From the outside, the seven Templetons seem so bohemian, unusual...peculiar even. No one is more intrigued by the family than their neighbours, single mothe ...Show more