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
Springtime by Michelle de Kretser
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still.'..W ...Show more
Food, Sex & Money by Liz Byrski
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's almost forty years since the three ex-convent girls left school and went their separate ways, but finally they meet again.Bonnie, rocked by the death of her husband, is back in Australia after decades in Europe, and is discovering that while financial security eliminates worry, it doesn't guarantee ...Show more
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is widely regarded as a classic in Australian literature. Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and for ...Show more
This is the Grass by Alan Marshall
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This is the Grass is Alan Marshall's moving sequel to the much-loved Australian classic I Can Jump Puddles. First published in 1962, it tells the story of Marshall's adolescence, as he searches for work amid the rough and tumble of 1920s Melbourne. From Wallaby Creek in Donvale Shire where he boards wit ...Show more
Time of Secrets by Deborah Burrows
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
1943 is a dangerous time to fall in love...In wartime Melbourne loose lips sink ships, so when Australian Women's Army sergeant Stella Aldridge overhears soldiers whispering about a revenge killing, she follows her instincts to investigate, despite finding herself drawn to one of the soldiers, the enigm ...Show more
The Life by Malcolm Knox
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"He looked into the Pacific and the Pacific looked back into him." The Life tells the story of former-world-champion Australian surfer, Dennis Keith, from inside the very heart of the fame and madness that is 'The Life'. Now bloated and paranoid, Keith is holed up in his mother's retirement village, shu ...Show more
Seasons of War by Lee Christopher
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
I was young then. I remember the landing on the beach and the days of my time on the peninsula and returning home from war, the past and the present coming together in my mind over the years. I remember the beauty of the ugly place. Packed into tiny boats, Michael, his brother Dan and their mates think ...Show more