On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Annette Higgs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise. They lead hard- ...Show more
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out.Not far from Da ...Show more
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a mother–daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control. One hundred days. It’s no time at all, she tells me. But she’s not the one waiting. In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls preg ...Show more
Ordinary Gods and Monsters by Chris Womersley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It could have been any summer's evening, but of course it wasn't.It was the end of some things, the beginning of so many others.Nick Wheatley has finished high school, but he isn't ready for the rest of his life. His parents are getting divorced, his sister is downright weird and his best friend and nei ...Show more
Out of Time by Steve Hawke
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Anne and Joe have at long last found the sweet spot in their relationship - they have overcome conflict and difficulties and the challenges of growing towards old age together, and now appreciate each other's company, a great sex life, and are looking forward to what retirement brings. But inexplicably ...Show more
Outlaws of the Leopolds by Ion Idriess; Tom Thompson (Designed by, Editor, (various roles))
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
North West Australia - in the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges, formerly known as the King Leopold Ranges between 1879 and 2020, is the setting for the story of Aboriginal leader Jandamarra and his fight against white invasion of his country.Jandamarra, who was also known as Pigeon, had been a blacktracker of ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright. Accompanied by new editions of Wright’s classic novels, Carpentaria and The Swan Book, to be released by Giramondo in May 2023. Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness ...Show more
Prettier if She Smiled More by Toni Jordan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Jordan is a kind of Australian Marian Keyes, combining pace and humour with a razor intelligence' Sydney Morning Herald 'A funny and smart family drama' Weekend Australian 'Taps into the humour and pathos of ordinary life in a way that has you nodding with recognition . . . while at the same time laugh ...Show more
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from a working-class background to be at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. Her masterful line of questioning in the courtroom has netted Tessa win after win, f ...Show more
Reaching Tin River: Text Classics by Jennifer Down, Thea Astley
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Beautifully written." --Publishers Weekly "Intelligent, fresh, and new." --Kirkus First published in 1990. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. Young Australian Belle, the daughter of an American musician, looks back on the people and forces that shaped her life. Researching in the archiv ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more