A Lovely and Terrible Thing by Chris Womersley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Around you the world is swirling - you pass through a submerged town; the bakery, a wheelbarrow, a bike floating on its side on the main street, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water. In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank a couple of miles fr ...Show more
Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
There is nothing more important than love and refuge. Egypt, 1941. Only hours after disembarking in Alexandria, William Marsh, an Australian corporal at twenty-one, is face down in the sand, caught in a stoush with the Italian enemy. He is saved by James Kelly, a childhood friend from Sydney and the las ...Show more
The Three Secret Cities (Jack West Jr #5) by Matthew Reilly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Jack West | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From Australia's favourite novelist and author of the Scarecrow series.'A vivid, elaborately constructed odyssey with plenty of twists and some beguiling Easter eggs for die-hard Reilly fans...an author with a profuse imagination' Sydney Morning Herald HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE FOUR KINGDOMS SCORNED. THE H ...Show more
A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: AUSTRALIAN
"[A Month of Sundays] demonstrates the capacity of a book to act as a mirror to the soul and an eloquent guide to a more contented future." WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN I wonder if we'll ever have the chance to actually be in the same room together,' Judy had ventured. For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Sim ...Show more
Hunter (Timothy Blake #2) by Jack Heath
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Timothy Blake / Hangman | Reading Level: very good
Timothy Blake returns, with an insatiable appetite, in the thrillingly addictive sequel to Hangman. Timothy Blake, ex-consultant for the FBI, now works in body-disposal for a local crime lord. One night he stumbles across a body he wasn't supposed to find and is forced to hide it. When the FBI calls Bla ...Show more
Beneath a Rising Sun (#10 Frontier) by Peter Watt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"the home grown version of Wilbur Smith" The Sunday AgeAs the Allied forces fight to repel invaders in the Pacific, the Duffy and Macintosh clans face their greatest challenges at home.Sergeant Jessica Duffy relishes her work as a code breaker in MacArthur's headquarters but is also secretly reporting o ...Show more
Being Black 'n Chicken, and Chips by Matt Okine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A heartbreaking and often hilarious story about trying to grow up when everything is falling apart from one of Australia's leading comic talents. Mike Amon is a regular teenager. All he wants is to fit in. He wants to sit at the cool bench. He wants to be a star athlete. He wants his first kiss.
Secret City: The Capital Files by Steve Lewis; Chris Uhlman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In Darkness Visible by Tony Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Intriguing, gripping and believable, Tony Jones has used worldwide political history to create a second sensational thriller. In 2005, Marin Katich, living in Croatia under an alias, is being watched. Before the year is out, he has been assaulted, arrested, charged with serious war crimes and locked up ...Show more
Khaki Town by Judy Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Khaki Town, Judy Nunn's exciting new novel, is inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over seventy years. It seems to have happened overnight, Val thought . How extraordinary. We've become a khaki town. It's March 1942. Singapore has fallen. Darwin has been bombed. A ...Show more
Act of Grace by Anna Krien
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games Australian soldier Toohey returns from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck, crippled by PTSD and white-knuckling life. In the Iraq of a decade earlier, aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his ps ...Show more