All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance ...Show more
Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Stella Shortlist 2019) by Jamie Marina Lau
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Embracing the noir tradition and featuring a prose style quite unlike any before, with references that will go both over your head and under your feet, Pink Mountain on Locust Island will flip readers upside ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an American corporation runs prison security, so the malware infects some 5000 American places of incarceration. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten t ...Show more
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahonyis a towering novel. This ...Show more
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up an object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and it is her first act of book thieve ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Set in hardscrabble farming country around the show jumping circuit that flourished in Australia prior to the Second World War, Foal's Bread tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and their fortunes as dictated by the vicissitudes of the land. When Noah Childs meets Roley Nancarrow ...Show more
The Dry by Jane Harper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Aaron Falk | Reading Level: very good
WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY? It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six- ...Show more
The Tree Of Man by Patrick White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"One of Patrick White's most loved novels in which he creates a memorable portrait of human resilience Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary hous ...Show more
Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animalsis a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers. 'The most original, surprising and inspired book I read this year.' Stephen Romei, Weekend Australian Perhaps only the animals can tell ...Show more
Fair Game A Tasmanian Memoir by Carmel Bird
$10.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This long essay is an engagingly personal, playful and thoughtful examination of the arrival in 1832 in Tasmania of a shipload of women, sent to redress the imbalance of genders in that colonial settlement. Carmel also has a collection of stories, My Hearts Are Your Hearts, released recently by Spineles ...Show more