Comfort Zone by Lindsay Tanner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Jack Van Duyn Ser.
Jack Van Duyn is stuck in his comfort zone. A pot-bellied, round-shouldered cabbie in his mid-fifties, Jack lives alone, has few friends, and gets very little out of life. He has a negative opinion of most other people -- especially refugees, bankers, politicians, and welfare bludgers. Jack doesn't kno ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A breathtaking new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays. In the fall of 2011, a heartbroken young man flees Australia for the USA. Landing in the excessive, uncanny-familiar glamour and plenitude of New York City, Will makes a vow to say yes to everything that comes his way. By fate ...Show more
The Furies: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Mandy Beaumont
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure tha ...Show more
Dear Ibis by Kate Liston-Mills
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the author of The Waterfowl Are Drunk! comes a pointed and poignant collection of short stories for the present moment. Dear Ibis is a tender yet unflinching meditation on what it means to feel at home, and what it means to have this taken away. Set in New South Wales' lush South Coast against the ...Show more
The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Praise for The Midsummer Garden'This is a rich, sensual, and evocative novel, fragrant with the smell of crushed herbs and flowers, and haunted by the high cost that women must sometimes pay to find both love and their vocation.' Kate Forsyth'...compelling, passionate and admirable.' Australian Women's ...Show more
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out.Not far from Da ...Show more
The Crying Room by Gretchen Shirm
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Crying Room movingly explores family boundaries and stories, finding original ways to express the contradictory experience of belonging to a family, and being an individual at the same time. When Bernie Rodgers and her husband move to the coastal town of Ballina , she finds that there is more than a ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more
Open Wounds by S. C. FARROW
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Her eyes drift as she wonders who they are and where they're going. More importantly, where is she going? Where are they going? And what's going to happen when they get there? A new life? A new beginning? She bites her lip. She doesn't think so. Australia is known as the lucky country, ...Show more
Nine Days by Toni Jordan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. Winner, Independent Booksellers of Australia Award for Best Fiction, 2013.Kirkus Reviews, Best Historical Fiction list, 2013. It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet ...Show more