A Winning Betrayal by Louise Guy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
One lucky day will change two women's lives — but for better or worse? When an unexpected windfall brings together strangers Shauna and Frankie, one woman is popping champagne corks-but the other just wants to cry. For her part, Shauna is pouring celebratory drinks. Since her heart was broken and her dr ...Show more
A World of Other People by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
Joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award (with Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan), A World of Other People is a life-affirming evocation of love in war time, when every decision, and every day, matters. Set in 1941 during the Blitz, Steven Carroll's cinematic new novel traces the ...Show more
Abomination by Ashley Goldberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A compelling and compassionate debut about friendship, faith, family and identity. 'He who turns his ear away from hearing the Torah - even his prayer is an abomination.' Proverbs 28-9 Melbourne 1999- Ezra and Yonatan are best friends whose lives are forever changed when their school, the ultra-Orthod ...Show more
Across the Nightingale Floor: Book 1 Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Tales of the Otori
In his fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard. Brought up in a remote village among the Hidden, a reclusive and spiritual people, Takeo has l ...Show more
Act of Grace by Anna Krien
$29.99 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
Ada by Kaz Cooke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A lady dancer, a comedienne, and a comic singer. And the head of my own travelling troupe. The Ada Delroy Company, lately extinct.' Meet Ada. Losing her looks but not her touch, waving a morphia cocktail and holding forth from her bed, she's still got some silks, sequins, a scrapbook, and the story of ...Show more
Affection: There is No Cure by Ian Townsend
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
January 1900, and Australia's tropical north just got a little hotter. An outbreak of plague is suspected, and the Queensland Government sends Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner - small, refined and immaculately dressed - to assess the situation. Turner, armed with a microscope, a butterfly net and his lovelorn ...Show more
After She Left by Penelope Hanley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Irish artist Deirdre Wild emigrates from the remote Blasket Islands to Sydney's The Rocks in the 1930s, she makes an indelible mark on conservative society with her surrealist art and bohemian ways. Just after the Second World War, Deirdre leaves for Europe to be with her lover - leaving behind her ...Show more
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them.When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them recon ...Show more
After the Carnage by Tara June Winch
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
"A single mother resorts to extreme measures to protect her young son. A Nigerian student undertakes a United Nations internship in the hope of a better future. A recently divorced man starts a running group with members of an online forum for recovering addicts. Ranging from New York to Istanbul, from ...Show more
After the Rain by Aisling Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in danger of being swept away. Her husband, Benjamin, a linguist, is a conundrum. He has changed. Or has she? The stories and superstitions of her childho ...Show more
All Aboard! True Train Tales by Pauline Deeves
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Jack loves visiting Grandpa in his old train carriage. He loves helping him in the train museum. And he loves hearing his stories about trains and railways. From runaway engines to people-powered carriages, train-robbing bushrangers and lifesaving pointsmen, Grandpa always has a tale to pass the time. B ...Show more