World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2016 It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangel ...Show more
Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion; Anne Buist
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Each looking to make a new start, Zoe and Martin set out independently to walk two thousand kilometres from Cluny in France to Santiago in Spain, in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the Camino -- The Way -- for centuries. The Camino changes you, it's said. It's a chance to find a new version of ...Show more
The Family Law by Benjamin Law
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: Why won't his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? ...Show more
Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
And then I was pregnant, and we realised we had no space for a baby. We looked at all kinds of houses: big, new ones with columns and render; little cottages with beaten weatherboard; a yellow brick monstrosity with a paved yard where there should have been grass. But we were drawn to the rolling water. ...Show more
A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Until now... Determined to enjoy her imminent retirement, Adele invites her fellow bibliophiles to help her house-sit in the Blue Mountains. It's a tantalising opportunity to spend a m ...Show more
From the Stars above (#12 Frontier Series) by Peter Watt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Private Patrick Duffy was left orphaned when his mother died in Changi prison. Now, returning to fight a fearless enemy, he must confront the ghosts of his past if he is to find any hope for the future.Michael Macintosh is forging his own path. Sailor, soldier and mercenary, he will soon face war again, ...Show more
The Invitation by Belinda Alexandra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In Gilded Age New York, money buys everything. What is your price? Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all ...Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a ...Show more
Islands by Peggy Frew
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A stunning literary novel from the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted Hope Farm. There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each o ...Show more
Invented Lives PB by Andrea Goldsmith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still ... It is the mid-1980s. In Australia, stay-at-home wives jostle with want-it-all feminists, while AIDS threatens the sexual freedom of everyone. On the other side of the world, the Soviet bloc is in turmoil. Mikhail Gorbachev ha ...Show more
The Rouseabout by Rachael Treasure
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Kate Webster is a loveable larrikin who likes to play hard now and worry about the consequences later. She can't help mucking up the opportunities life gives her. Rocked by the death of her mother, she takes on a dare at one of Australia's wildest rural social events - a Bachelors & Spinsters ball - ...Show more
Pearl in a Cage: A Woody Creek Novel 1 by Joy Dettman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
<b>The first book in the dark and addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman</b> <b> "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" <i>The Age</i></b> Spanning two momentous decades and capturing rural Australia's complex and mysteriou ...Show more
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers endure a self-imposed quarantine to keep the disease from sp ...Show more