The Mothers by Rod Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'That's what life is about, at the bottom of things, she thought: women keeping babies.' In 1917, while the world is at war, Alma and her children are living in a sleep-out at the back of Mrs Lovett's house in working-class Footscray. When Alma falls pregnant, her daughter Molly is born in secret. As Mo ...Show more
The Secret River TV Tie-in by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1806 William Thornhill, a man of quick temper and deep feelings, is transported from the slums of London to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and their children he arrives in a harsh land he cannot understand. But the colony can turn a convict into a free man. Eight ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
Goodbye Sweetheart by Marion Halligan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A successful lawyer, bon vivant, loving husband and father, has a heart attack and dies while swimming in the local pool. A man apparently happily married, yet, with two divorces behind him and three puzzled children. In death it seems that he is not the person everyone thought. As his extended family g ...Show more
The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Reilly has...written a novel that will have his die-hard fans rejoicing' Canberra Times It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the gr ...Show more
Last Day in the Dynamite Factory by Annah Faulkner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Silence, Chris discovered, is easy. If nobody asks, you never have to tell.' Christopher Bright is a well-respected conservation architect, good neighbour and friend. He has a devoted wife, two talented children and an old Rover. He plays tennis on Saturdays and enjoys a beer with his business partner ...Show more
Leap by Myfanwy Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A few weeks after finishing their final exams, high school sweethearts have an argument at a party. Joe wants to go--Jen begs him to stay. They fight in the corridor, following their usual script, and then he walks out and leaves her. A few hours later she dies. Three years on, after burning up his ow ...Show more
Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"A Guide to Berlin" is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty apartments in Berlin to share stories and memories. Eac ...Show more
Landing by Susan Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Jonathan Lott is confused. His wife has left him for a woman and he doesn't like living alone. Is it true that an about-to-be-divorced man in possession of a good fortune is in need of a new wife? Would Penny Collins do, divorced herself, school teacher and frustrated artist? What about beautiful Anna, ...Show more
In the Quiet by Eliza Henry-Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
A moving, sweet and uplifting novel of love, grief and the heartache of letting go, from a wonderful new Australian author. Cate Carlton has recently died, yet she is able to linger on, watching her three young children and her husband as they come to terms with their life without her on their rural hor ...Show more
The Lake House by Kate Morton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: good
A missing child ..June 1933, and the Edevane family's country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's a ...Show more
Ghost River by Tony Birch
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The highly anticipated new novel from the Miles Franklin - shortlisted author of Blood 'You find yourself down at the bottom of the river, for some it's time to give into her. But other times, young fellas like you two, you got to fight your way back. Show the river you got courage and is ready to live. ...Show more