Summer at Mount Hope by Rosalie Ham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Rosalie Ham is the author of The Dressmaker, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Australia and was made into a successful film starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving. Her second novel, Summer At Mount Hope, has all the originality and humour of its predecessor. It has been ...Show more
The Long Paddock by Alissa Callen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A captivating love story about community and second chances. Country-girl Cressida Knight fills her days with her farm, a mischievous pet bull called Reggie and her volunteer emergency services work. The busier she keeps, the less she thinks about the cowboy who left her behind. She's convinced the smal ...Show more
Beauty in Thorns by Kate Forsyth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Pre-Raphaelites were obsessed with liberating art and love from the shackles of convention. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was the self-professed leader of the mysterious brotherhood of young men who were convinced they could change the world. Rossetti was smitten with his favourite model, Lizzie Siddal. Li ...Show more
Crimes of the Father by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. Tom Keneally, ex-seminarian, pulls no punches as he interrogates the terrible damage done to innocents as the Catholic Church has prevaricated around language and points of law, covering up for its own. Ex-communic ...Show more
Lake Hill by Margareta Osborn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
All her life Julia Gunn has been weighed down - first by a controlling father, then by a staid older husband, and always by a long-buried secret from her teenage years. Now, widowed at just thirty-six, she's going to do something for herself. Except en route to a new life on the coast at Lakes Entrance ...Show more
Wild Island by Jennifer Livett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: good
Captain Charles O'Hara Booth, Commandant of Port Arthur Penal Settlement in Van Diemen's Land, fears his life will change when Sir John Franklin arrives to replace Colonel Arthur as Governor. As Franklin and his wife Jane discover, the colony is run by a clique of Arthur's former army officers, who have ...Show more
The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean by Mira Robertson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In 1944 Emily Dean is dispatched from Melbourne to stay with relatives in rural Victoria. At the family property, Mount Prospect, she finds that Grandmother is determined to keep up standards despite the effects of the war, while Della, the bible-quoting cook, rules the kitchen with religious fervour. I ...Show more
The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Australian Classics
The year 1788: the very beginning of European settlement. These were times of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all, they were times of conflict between the Aborigines and the white settlers. Eleanor Dark brings alive those bitter years with moments of tenderness and conciliation amid the brutality an ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 by Michael Slezak (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Would it be ethical to eat sentient aliens? What is the basis of differences between the sexes? Where do you find fossils of early multicellular life? Is there any hope for the Great Barrier Reef or Tasmanian forests in a warming climate? Were Aboriginal Australians the world's first astronomers? The Be ...Show more
The Power Game (The Monsarrat Series #3) by Meg Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: monsarrat series
Being the skipper of the cutter that carries all supplies and communications between Tasmania and Maria Island is a powerful position, and a deadly one. When a boatman is murdered on a remote island off Van Dieman's Land, the authorities want to blame a famous, and very inconvenient, political prisoner. ...Show more
The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two summers, decades apart.Two women whose lives are forever entwined.And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both.At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just another beaut ...Show more
The Year of the Farmer by Rosalie Ham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a quiet farming town somewhere in country New South Wales, war is brewing.The last few years have been punishingly dry, especially for the farmers, but otherwise, it's all Neralie Mackintosh's fault. If she'd never left town then her ex, the hapless but extremely eligible Mitchell Bishop, would never ...Show more