To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and ke ...Show more
Why Do Horses Run? by Cameron Stewart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
COLLINS BOOKSELLERS - FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pain who recognise that in others. He walked not feeling he was connected to the earth, but on the edge of something he couldn't reach. He pushed on through ...Show more
The Lovers by Yumna Kassab
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other’s moods like the seasons cycled in a day? What happens when you are tired of me and I tire of you? Every couple has a story. How they met, how they fell in love – their ups, their downs. What made them w ...Show more
Breath by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2015 Voss Literary Prize and the 2015 Stella PrizeLonglisted for the 2016 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Meet Jimmy Flick. He's not like other kids - he's both too fast and too slow. He sees too much, and too little. Jimmy's ...Show more
Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work. Ghost Cities - inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China - follows multiple narratives, including one in whi ...Show more
Thanks for Having Me by Emma Darragh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The first fiction title from JOAN, consisting of interwoven stories about three generations of women in one family as they navigate girlhood, motherhood and selfhood, perfect for fans of Jennifer Egan, Meg Mason and Paige Clark. 'Emma has captured something rare and true with this book. A truly origi ...Show more
All That I Am by Anna Funder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. 'A ripper.' The Australian 'Gripping.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Brilliant ...Show more
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It is 1943; billowing dust and information, the government 'Better Farming Train' slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land.The train is on a crusade to persuade the country that science holds the answers and that productivity is pat ...Show more
The Lebs: Miles Franklin Literary Award Finalist by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad. 'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and over until finally I shout back, 'Shut up, I have something to say!' They all go quiet and wait for me to explain myself, redeem myself, ...Show more
The Great Undoing by Sharlene Allsopp
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on? In a near future all identity information is encoded in digital language. Nations know where everyone is, all the time. Not everyone agrees with this constant surveillance, and when the system is hijacked and shut down, all gl ...Show more
Politica by Yumna Kassab
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A captivating literary journey that delves into the intertwined lives of a town, its people, and a region shaped by revolution and war. The war broke out and she decided to call her dad. Weeks and weeks we do not speak, and the weeks become months and then they are so many years. She imagines herself ...Show more