West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.' Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia-finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to 'exotic' beauty, Luna reinvent ...Show more
Politica by Yumna Kassab
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A captivating literary journey that delves into the intertwined lives of a town, its people, and a region shaped by revolution and war. The war broke out and she decided to call her dad. Weeks and weeks we do not speak, and the weeks become months and then they are so many years. She imagines herself ...Show more
The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Praise for The Midsummer Garden'This is a rich, sensual, and evocative novel, fragrant with the smell of crushed herbs and flowers, and haunted by the high cost that women must sometimes pay to find both love and their vocation.' Kate Forsyth'...compelling, passionate and admirable.' Australian Women's ...Show more
Dear Ibis by Kate Liston-Mills
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the author of The Waterfowl Are Drunk! comes a pointed and poignant collection of short stories for the present moment. Dear Ibis is a tender yet unflinching meditation on what it means to feel at home, and what it means to have this taken away. Set in New South Wales' lush South Coast against the ...Show more
Open Wounds by S. C. FARROW
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Her eyes drift as she wonders who they are and where they're going. More importantly, where is she going? Where are they going? And what's going to happen when they get there? A new life? A new beginning? She bites her lip. She doesn't think so. Australia is known as the lucky country, ...Show more
The Furies: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Mandy Beaumont
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure tha ...Show more
On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Annette Higgs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize. Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise. They lead hard- ...Show more
The Crying Room by Gretchen Shirm
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Crying Room movingly explores family boundaries and stories, finding original ways to express the contradictory experience of belonging to a family, and being an individual at the same time. When Bernie Rodgers and her husband move to the coastal town of Ballina , she finds that there is more than a ...Show more
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out.Not far from Da ...Show more
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this" (The Sunday Times, London): An award-winning debut novel from a rising star in Australia--a hauntingly beautiful story about the bond of brotherhood and the fragility of youth. Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coas ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more
Questions of Travel: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2013 by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book."--A.S. Byatt, Guardian Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe--expl ...Show more