The Boy Behind the Curtain (Hardcover) by Tim Winton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word' ObserverThe Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how moments from his childhood and life growing up have shaped ...Show more
The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
What if those you cherish harboured a secret that could break you?In Sally Hepworth's The Secrets of Midwives Neva Bradley, a young midwife, has just learned that she is expecting. She's been present at the magical stages of many women's lives but she is determined to keep the details surrounding her ow ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
Births Deaths Marriages by Georgia Blain
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A brutally honest account of love, marriage, families and death.It wasn't until years later that I realised the obvious - the difference between us and the mythical normal family I was certain existed, was in fact the fictiona There is always so much more and it swims, shimmering beneath the surface, gl ...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 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
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
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away. From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some survive to ...Show more
The Architecture of Song by Gary Crew
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'I lived many lives beneath that piano ...I heard ten thousand stories in that space. There I was privileged to observe, to gather -- and not only gather, to concentrate within myself -- so much that is usually denied a child of my age. As a result, I have, you might say, grown.' So says Augustus Trump ...Show more
The Yalda Crossing by Noel Beddoe
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A powerful novel about our frontier history which should be read by every Australian As a successful trader and merchant in Sydney in the late 1870s, 'Young James' Beckett believes he has put his past behind him. When the enigmatic bushman Lancaster reappears in his life, Beckett knows he must confront ...Show more
The Opal Desert by Di Morrissey
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Arcadia out soon.Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her dreams.Shirley, approaching 80, ...Show more
Brothers in Exile by Leon Isackson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Brothers in Exile is an exciting journey through Australian history from 1812 to 1937, as the author sets out to solve the secrets of a mysterious grandmother he never knew. The saga begins with three convict brothers, a well-to-do settler and a reverend as they arrive in the Macquarie penal colony of 1 ...Show more