A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
An uplifting and magical story of childhood, family and finding ways to change the inevitable ...Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 ... 33 ... and 93. On one impossible day in 1965, eight-year-old Willa receives a mysterious box containing a jar of water and the instruction: ‘One ocean: plant in the backyard.’ S ...Show more
A Lifetime on Clouds (Text Classics) by Gerald Murnane
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s - the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever. Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart a ...Show more
A Little Tea, A Little Chat (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
" Ever since his early manhood, since his marriage, he had bought women; most had been bargains and most had made delivery at once. He never paid in advance: I got no time for futures in women'. New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. ...Show more
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two. Jena Lin plays the violin. She was once a child prodigy and now uses sex to fill the void left by fame. She's struggling a little. Her professional life comprises rehearsals, concerts, auditions and r ...Show more
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive. Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way fr ...Show more
A Man of Honour: The target is a man. I am the bullet. by Simon Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
One fine March day in 1868, gunshots rang out at a society charity event in Sydney's harbourside suburb of Clontarf. In the aftermath, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh – son of Queen Victoria – lay close to death, while the assembled crowd seized and beat his attacker, Irish-born Henry James O'Farrell. Who was ...Show more
A Most Peculiar Act - A Novel by Marie Munkara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The story follows the trials and tribulations of Sugar, a 16 year-old Aboriginal fringe-camp dweller. Set in Darwin during the Japanese bombing raids, we meet characters such as: Horatio Humphris (Horrid Hump), Chief Protector of Aborigines, teetotaller and 42 year old virgin; Ralphie Brown, who has the ...Show more
A Place Near Eden by Nell Pierce
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the prestigious The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award. 'Lyrical, gritty and compelling . . .a story of haunted truth-seeking.' CAROLINE OVERINGTON, The Australian'A skilfully written, insightful novel . . . absorbing and a pleasure to read.' HSU-MING TEO, previous winner of The Australian/Vo ...Show more
A Plan to Save the World by Elaelah Harley (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Willa Triston loves three things - music, her only friend Poppy, and the earth. These passions are put on hold, and her reclusive life is shattered after she sees a strange flickering light from her window. Her lack of impulse control forces her to investigate it, but the night turns dangerous, and ...Show more
A Pure Clear Light: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project...what could go wrong? A Pure Clear Lightexamines a marriage at the moment it goes hapless ...Show more
A Recipe for Family by Tori Haschka
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Perfect for fans of Meg Mason and Sally Hepworth; a powerful and heart-rending story about how food connects us and assumptions divide us – and how true family can come from where you least expect it. Things are getting slippery for Stella. With her husband away she’s juggling a full-time job, a tricky ...Show more
A Remarkable Woman by Jules Van Mil
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Frenchwoman Avril Montdidier is on a mission: to emigrate to Australia and start her own fashion business, leaving the tragedies of the Second World War behind her. She has family in Melbourne and an apprenticeship at Dior in Paris under her tailored belt, so the future seems bright. Avril settles into ...Show more