12 Edmondstone Street by David Malouf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
First published in 1985, this book combines autobiography with a sense of the ways in which the objects with which we surround ourselves, and the places in which we live, build our private maps of reality and shape our personal mythologies. By the author of "An Imaginary Life" and "Antipodes".
1788: Text Classics by Watkin Tench
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius." In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Sydney Cove with the First Fleet. This curious young captain of the marines was a natural storyteller ...Show more
1988 by Andrew McGahan
$23.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A lighthouse. A weather station, thousands of miles away. For six months. I drank steadily. With alcohol it all made sense.' It's the Bicentennial year and for Gordon failed writer and bottleshop boy it seems his life is going nowhere. It's time to escape. From his overcrowded house, from Brisbane, fro ...Show more
2 Sisters Detective Agency by Candice Fox, James Patterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The exciting new collaboration from James Patterson and Australia's own Candice Fox, following the recent bestselling success, both here and internationally, of The Inn. Two sisters go into the family business they didn't know they had - catching killers. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long e ...Show more
7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
7 Dark Tales by Christine Grace; Wendy Straw (Illustrator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This collection of seven short stories is a startling and imaginative take on the fairytale form. Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, each narrative gently unfolds, reminiscent of ancient, oral storytelling. The reader is constantly taken in unexpected directions as the tales explore contemporary themes of ...Show more
A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller. 'More than one ghost haunts this tender novel about love in its many guises, condoned and illicit. In his deceptively simple, lucid prose, Alex Miller examines the emotional contradictions inhe ...Show more
A Caravan Like a Canary by Sasha Wasley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Two road trips. Twenty years apart. Can the memories of a troubled family past finally be put to rest?When Tara Button's mother asks her to drive the bright yellow family caravan from one end of the state to the other, it's her charming but unreliable brother, Zac, who convinces her it's a good idea. Be ...Show more
A Country Life/the Road to Hope/Red Dust Dancer/Winter Beginn by Rachael Johns; Eva Scott; Elise K. Ackers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A collection of uplifting stories about new beginnings from three Australian authors. The Road to Hope by Rachael Johns After watching the man she's always loved marry someone else, nurse Lauren Simpson is finally ready to pack it in and leave Hope Junction. Until her resolve is tested when the hot ne ...Show more
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An astonishingly inventive, playful, funny, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most exciting new literary voices. Margaret Bryce, deceased mother of twins, has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. These days - they're not exactly days - she visits her daughter Eva in Madri ...Show more
A Difficult Young Man - Text Classics by Martin Boyd
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Handsome, proud, reprehensible, misunderstood. Dominic Langton is the dark heart of A Difficult Young Man. His brother Guy can scarcely understand where he fits into the pattern of things or what he might do next. Martin Boyd's much loved novel is an elegant, witty and compelling family tale about the c ...Show more
A Dream Life by Claire Messud
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family finds their life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must fin ...Show more