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
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
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where s ...Show more
The Happiness Jar by SAMANTHA TIDY
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Nature has the power to restore us, but can it wash away our darkest truths? Set amid the red dust and heat of the Australian Kimberley wet season and the smoky backdrop of the holy river Ganges in India, this is a novel about rebirth and remembrance. Brian, a Vietnam veteran, has been missing for twent ...Show more
Love and Other Scores by Abra Pressler
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Gabriel is a global tennis superstar and heartthrob. As he eyes his first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, the pressure is getting to him. After an intense practice session, Gabriel finds refuge in a bar, where he meets Noah. Oblivious to sports, Noah doesn't recognise Gabriel, but there is an i ...Show more
This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Sometimes you need to go deep into the past, to make sense of the present Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new mille ...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
The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Amanda Lohrey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating ...Show more
The White Girl by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. Raising her granddaughter Sissy on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their communities. When a new policeman arrives in town d ...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
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
$22.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
'The novel flows like the great Murrumbidgee River itself, with powerful undercurrents that sweep the reader along - I feel it's a book that all Australians should read, to try and understand why our colonial past still causes so much pain and grievance.’ – Kate Forsyth
Southern Aurora by Mark Brandi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
We always listen out for the train when we're down in the cutting because sometimes they come quicker than you expect. There aren't as many trains as there used to be. Mostly just the freight ones, like the one that nearly killed us on the bus . . . The best train is the Southern Aurora. It goes all the ...Show more