The Tricky Art of Forgiveness by Meredith Jaffe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
After thirty years of marriage, can there be any secrets left? The charming new novel from the author of The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison Diana Forsyth is in the midst of planning The Big Party, a combined celebration of her husband Will's 60th and their 30th wedding anniversary. The whole family ...Show more
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from the award-winning Paul Dalla Rosa. 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark? This is a sharp collection that will grip you with strange force; the people here are despera ...Show more
Everything Feels Like the End of the World by Else Fitzgerald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Grief, loss, pain, love, and the future - an achingly human debut short story collection, from the winner of the 2019 Richell Prize. 'Thrilling, prescient, and deeply moving ... an electrifying new voice in Australian fiction.' Emily Bitto 'clear eyes, sharp intellect and deep sorrow - both lament and p ...Show more
Enclave (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Claire G. Coleman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the critically acclaimed author of Terra Nullius comes a novel in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman that explores a future of surveillance, disruption and segregation that echoes the horrors of a colonial past. 'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voi ...Show more
Blue Hour by Sarah Schmidt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
She thinks of blue mountain, her favourite place. 'We're going somewhere where we can be safe. We never have to come back here.' As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew must come, when they will walk out on he ...Show more
Forty Nights (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Pirooz Jafari
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This story came to me and entered my soul. It did not need a key or an invite, for it already belonged. It walked in, shook my foundation and set my heart on fire. We danced around the flames and with every twirl, I grabbed a few words until I was burnt to ashes. Tishtar runs a small legal practice in ...Show more
Salt and Skin by Eliza Henry-Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Grief-stricken and on the verge of a breakdown, Luda Managan and her two teenaged children try to make a home for themselves on a collection of harsh and haunted Scottish islands. Luda, a photographer, is mesmerised by the extraordinary magic of the islands and soon finds herself condemned by the loc ...Show more
Things We Bury by Matthew Ryan Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Three siblings, reunited in their home town, are struggling to deal with the fallout of a car crash that almost killed their father. This, on top of everything else life is throwing at them. Josh is trying to save his marriage and hard-won TV career in the wake of a painfully public sexual harassment s ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction, there are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of these people-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at ...Show more
Pieta by Michael Fitzgerald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
These are the last days of 1999. At St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, as the world waits for the new millennium, Lucy, a young Australian woman looks up at Michelangelo’s Pietà behind its pane of bullet-proof glass; a red kabbalah string circles her wrist. She has come with the mysterious parcel her recently ...Show more
Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story from the two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author.
The Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"On a cloudless summer afternoon in 1789, labourers working in the fields around Montsignac, a village in Gascony, saw a man fall out of the sky.The balloon had drifted over a wooded ridge and into their valley. The farmworkers, straightening up one by one, shaded their eyes against the dazzle of the su ...Show more