Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
The Jerilderie Letter: Text Classics by Ned Kelly
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has no alternative only to put up with the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped s ...Show more
The Glass Canoe: Text Classics by David Ireland
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"On hot days we jumped fully clothed into our bottomless beer glasses and pushed off from shore without a backward look. Heading for the deep, where it was calm and cool." Meat Man is a regular at the Southern Cross pub in Sydney. With his tribe he sits and drinks and watches as life spirals around him. ...Show more
Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2013 STEELE RUDD AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 KIBBLE AWARD From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again ...Show more
Eat Me by Linda Jaivin
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Introduced by Krissy Kneen First published in 1995, Eat Me became an instant international bestseller-and caused a scandal in the US. Julia is a photographer, Chantal edits a fashion magazine, Helen is a feminist academic and Philippa is a writer. These four friends haunt the cafes of inner-city Sydney, ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into t ...Show more
The Last Rose of Summer by Di Morrissey
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A compelling story of two remarkable women connected across the decades by the men who love them...and the magic of a place called Zanana. Kate--a strong-willed heiress determined to defy Edwardian convention, but she must pay the ultimate price to keep the home she loves so much.... Odette--an indepe ...Show more
The Hanging Garden by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A previously unpublished novel from the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist ...Show more
When the Singing Stops by Di Morrissey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world--Guyana, South America. Captivated by Guyana's wild, unspoiled beauty, Madison Wright joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corporate exploitation. But her new-found commitment soon plunges Madison into a mire of ...Show more
No More Boats [Miles Franklin 2018 Shortlist] by Felicity Castagna
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"New novel by Felicity Castagna, whose previous book, The Incredible Here and Now, won the 2015 Prime Ministers Award for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The subject is very topical. No More Boats tackles the fear of refugees head on, portraying th ...Show more
Arcadia (HB) by Di Morrissey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder (H/B) by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more