Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'He tilted his desk lamp so that the light fell on the image. The head of a bright bay colt gazed out of the canvas, the expression in the eyes unusual and haunting.' A discarded painting in a roadside clean-up, forgotten bones in a research archive, and Lexington, the greatest racehorse in US history. ...Show more
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner Queensland Literary Awards Best Fiction 2013 A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal a ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, and shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize, The Life to Come is a powerful novel that effortlessly blends sharp satire of the literary world with deeply compassionate portraits of lonely people and their strategies for survival.
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
He was Australia's most wanted man. Now he's written Australia's most wanted novel. Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years' imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unio ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the ...Show more
Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion, Anne Buist
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Two Steps Ser.
Each looking to make a new start, Zoe and Martin set out independently to walk two thousand kilometres from Cluny in France to Santiago in Spain, in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the Camino -- The Way -- for centuries. The Camino changes you, it?s said. It?s a chance to find a new version of ...Show more
The Plantation by Di Morrissey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
With millions of copies sold worldwide, Di Morrissey is Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Arcadia out soon.When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmother refuse ...Show more
Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"One of the 50 most important writers in the world' -- Lire(France) Is it mad to love in spite of the evidence...or just necessary? 'There is ambiguity in most human relationships. Like a sequence of words, a relationship can be open to different interpretations. And when two people have differing views ...Show more
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976. It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his w ...Show more
The Best of Adam Sharp by Simsion, Graeme
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"On the cusp of fifty, Adam Sharp has a loyal partner, earns a good income as an IT contractor and is the music-trivia expert at quiz nights. It's the lifestyle he wanted, but something's missing. Two decades ago, on the other side of the world, his part-time piano playing led him into a passionate rela ...Show more
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Don Tillman Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his f ...Show more