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
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
Days of Innocence and Wonder by Lucy Treloar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For all her life, Till, now twenty-three, has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend, and her tormented half-wondering about whether she might have been able to stop it. Finally, at the age of twenty-three, Till flees her past and the hovering presence of her fearful parents. In Wir ...Show more
Shepherd by Catherine Jinks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Fourteen-year-old convict Tom Clay lives in a shepherd's hut in the bush, protecting his master's sheep from wild dogs. When a vicious fellow shepherd returns to ensure there are no witnesses to his crimes, the bush-crafty Tom and his hapless mate Rowdy face a life-and-death battle to survive. ’I’ve al ...Show more
7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
Whistler's Bones - A Novel of the Australian Frontier by Greg Barron
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
At the age of fifteen, Charlie left his home in Bendigo and signed on as a drover with Nat Buchanan. Two years later he was a key man on one of Australia's greatest cattle drives - the Durack family's two-year journey from Cooper's Creek, Queensland - to the Kimberley. Stumbling on Charlie's largely u ...Show more
Understory by Inga Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A memoir about staying in one place, told through trees, by the award-winning author of MR WIGG, NEST and WHERE THE TREES WERE. "The understorey is where I live, alongside these plants and creatures. I tend the forest, stand at the foot of trees and look up, gather what has fallen." Each chapter of this ...Show more
The Long River of Cat Fisher by Bruce Nash
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Kingsley (Cat) Fisher is an Australian woman, born at the beginning of the 20th century, with a madness for literature. When she is injured in a terrible accident while reading, Cat finds that her powers as a reader are almost supernaturally enhanced. Over the next hundred years, her life is entwined wi ...Show more
An Island in the Lake by Bruce Nash
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Pat and Ruth Beckett have retired from Sydney to the sublime landscape of the far south coast. To their garden, to their books, to their island in the lake. They want no part of the madness of Harbourside Grammar, monstrous celebrity billionaire Buckets Barrington, or the sinister Magnareach Corporation ...Show more