Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women by BLACK INC. (ED.)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Something Special, Something Rarepresents outstanding short fiction by Australia's finest female writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary. A sleepy town is gripped by delusory grief after the movie being filmed there wraps and leaves. A lingering h ...Show more
Hell Has Harbour Views by Richard Beasley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 2 crime
'A fearsome satirical blast' Sunday Age Sydney, 2001: Hugh Walker has it all. He's a successful young lawyer with a beautiful girlfriend and a million dollar office view... So why does he identify more with his resident cockroach than Atticus Finch, his childhood hero? Once upon a time he was the defe ...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
This Taste for Silence by Amanda O'Callaghan
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: UQP Short Fiction Ser.
The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda ...Show more
Home Fires by Fiona Lowe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1
When a lethal bushfire tore through Myrtle, nestled in Victoria's breathtaking Otway Ranges, the town's buildings - and the lives of its residents - were left as smouldering ash. For three women in particular, the fire fractured their lives and their relationships. Eighteen months later, with the flurr ...Show more
Long Flight Home by Lainie Anderson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The First World War is over and air mechanic Wally Shiers has promised to return home to his fiancée, Helena Alford. But Wally never reckoned on charismatic fighter pilot Ross Smith, and an invitation to compete in the world's most audacious air race. A £10,000 prize has been offered for the first airme ...Show more
When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Odds of saving marriage - slim. Farming expertise - patchy. Chances that it'll all be okay in the end - actually pretty good ... I wasn't enjoying the afternoon of 23 February even before I learnt that my husband was having an affair ... The news of her husband's infidelity comes as a nasty shock to Jen ...Show more
Well-Behaved Women by Emily Paull
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A woman grapples with survivor's guilt after a body is found in her garden bed; an ageing beauty queen contemplates her past; a world champion free-diver disappears during routine training¿In moments disquieting or quietly inspiring, this collection considers the complexity of the connections we make-wi ...Show more
The Joyce Girl by Annabel Abbs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
James Joyce was her father. Samuel Beckett was her lover. This is her story. A mesmerising fictionalisation of Lucia Joyce's life told for the first time. Paris, 1928. Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music and literature from artists such as Ford Madox Ford and Zelda Fitzgeral ...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
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the president of a nameless country. They are held captive in a palatial retreat in the mountains high above the capital city. Meanwhile, the chef's daughter, the portraitist's ...Show more
Promise by Sarah Armstrong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
How far would you go to protect a child in danger? When a new family moves in next door, it takes Anna just two days to realise something is very wrong. She can hear their five-year-old daughter Charlie crying, then sees injuries on the little girl which cannot be ignored. Anna reports the family to the ...Show more