The Fortunes of Richard Mahony: Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a place, a meaning, a life, Mahony and his wife Mary journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos, sanity to the asylum. The Fortunes of Richard Mahonyis a towering novel. This ...Show more
Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Life of Houses explores, with a poet's eye for detail, the hidden tensions in an old established Australian family that has lived for generations in a large house in a coastal town in south-eastern Australia. These tensions come to the surface when the granddaughter Kit is sent by her mother to spen ...Show more
After the Rain by Aisling Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in danger of being swept away. Her husband, Benjamin, a linguist, is a conundrum. He has changed. Or has she? The stories and superstitions of her childho ...Show more
The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Carry me, son. Do not leave me behind.Are you listening to me?Of course you're listening, you say, and add the F-word. Off you go to cope with a storm. Lucerne armfuls for horses. For cows, plain hay. Alone in the paddocks of his grass hotel a man tends to his beloved horses, Socks and Boy. The voice o ...Show more
Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS by Maggie Nelson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
At the End of the Day by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Mim Squires and Mathias Vander are stranded together on a disrupted flight home to Perth, they are surprised to find that they have much in common. Mim owns a bookshop, Mathias is a writer, and both are at turning points in their lives. Mim's childhood polio is taking a toll on her life. Mathias is ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In one terrible moment Jaxie Clackton's life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There's just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only ...Show more
Benevolence by Julie Janson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For perhaps the first time in novel form, Benevolence presents an important era in Australia’s history from an Aboriginal perspective. Benevolence is told from the perspective of Darug woman, Muraging (Mary James), born around 1813. Mary’s was one of the earliest Darug generations to experience the impa ...Show more
The Book of Ordinary People by Claire Varley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"The Book of Ordinary People is a heart-warming and thought-provoking novel that reminds us to value what matters most - our families, our friends and humanity as a whole. " ReadingsA grieving daughter navigates the morning commute, her mind bursting with memories pleading to be shared. A man made entir ...Show more
The Farmers Wife by Rachael Treasure
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Rebecca Saunders married larrikin Charlie Lewis and they settled down together on her beloved property, Waters Meeting, she thought she knew her future. But ten years on, two kids later, and with a failing farm, Rebecca is beginning to face some hard questions. Where did the free-spirited jillaroo ...Show more
Barra Creek by Di Morrissey
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An outback family saga that is funny, poignant and completely unexpected from Australia's favourite storyteller with the new novel Arcadia out soon.Di's 12th novel opens in New Zealand in the 1960s. The Mitchell family has run a prosperous sheep farm for generations and the youngest daughter, Sally, has ...Show more