The Dying Trade - Text Classics by Corris Peter
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"The villain was in custody as they say, but villains were coming out of the woodwork and the past was sending out tentacles which were winding around the necks of people living and dying in the present. It's a dying trade I'm in." Meet Cliff Hardy. Smoker, drinker, ex-boxer. And private investigator. W ...Show more
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times BestsellerAn Indie Next PickA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA rare seventeenth-century painting -- the only known surviving work of a woman who defied the expectations of her time -- links three lives, on three continents, over three centuries in this exhilarating new novel ...Show more
The Messenger by Markus Zusak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Meet Ed Kennedy - cab driving prodigy, pathetic card player and useless at sex. He lives in the suburbs, shares coffee with his dog, the Doorman, and he's in nervous-love with Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence - until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the firs ...Show more
A Curious Daughter by Jules Van Mil
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Joy Meredith has just turned eighteen and is stretching her wings, defying her mother by moving to her own place in the city and starting a veterinary science degree. With a job in the local pub alongside her boyfriend and good friends by her side, her future path seems set. Then Joy meets Mick Harris. ...Show more
The Coast by Eleanor Limprecht
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A stunning novel of love and courage by the bestselling author of The Passengers. Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Little Bay in Sydney, a veritable prison where more patients are admitted than will ever leave. She is told that she's visiting ...Show more
The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Imagining a near future Australia that is all too disturbingly familiar, The Mother Fault is an addictive thriller, a heart-pounding adventure and a moving portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to save her family. 'A triumph of a novel. Five stars. I loved it. Thrilling, confronting, page-turning an ...Show more
The Summer of Secrets by Barbara Hannay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Sydney journalist Chloe Brown is painfully aware that her biological clock isn't just ticking, it's booming. When her long term boyfriend finally admits he never wants children, Chloe is devastated. Impulsively, she moves as far from disappointment as she can - to a job on a small country newspaper in Q ...Show more
The Country Wedding by Barbara Hannay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Two country weddings, fifty years apart ... and the miracle of second chances In the tiny Tablelands township of Burralea, Flora Drummond is preparing to play in a string quartet for the wedding of a very close friend. The trouble is, she can't quite forget the silly teenage crush she once had on the ha ...Show more
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a mother–daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control. One hundred days. It’s no time at all, she tells me. But she’s not the one waiting. In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls preg ...Show more
Night Blue by Angela O’Keeffe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original and absorbing approach to revisiting Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner as artists and people, as well as a realigning our ideas around ...Show more
The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the winner of the SMH/Age Best Young Novelist of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year.Growing up can feel like a death sentenceLife in the troubled neighbourhood of Cabramatta demands too much too young. But Sonny wouldn't really know. Watching the world from her bedroom w ...Show more
The Riders by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start. But when he arrives at the airport to collect them, ...Show more