The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A fierce and beautiful debut novel about our capacity for harming ourselves, each other and the world around us. In the early 19th century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the then-unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water. Oxley never found it, but he never ceased to believe it w ...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 Summer of Secrets by Barbara Hannay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Sydney journalist Chloe Brown is painfully aware that her biological clock isn't just ticking, it's booming. When her long term boyfriend finally admits he never wants children, Chloe is devastated. Impulsively, she moves as far from disappointment as she can - to a job on a small country newspaper in Q ...Show more
Mammoth by Chris Flynn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The original, unforgettable and thought-provoking new novel by award-winning author Chris Flynn that will change how readers understand the world. Narrated by a 13,000-year-old extinct American mastodon, Mammoth is the (mostly) true story of how the skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar, a pterodactyl, a preh ...Show more
Return Ticket by Jon Doust
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa at the height of apartheid. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Ja ...Show more
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics by Ruth Park
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia to continue her work as a journalist, newly married to D'Arcy Niland. Determined to earn their living as writers, they submitted story outlines to radio stations, idea for articles to newspapers and accepted whatever freelance jobs came their way. The Har ...Show more
Bluebird by Malcolm Knox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones' - The Guardian A stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian beachside suburb. A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prim ...Show more
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a mother–daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control. One hundred days. It’s no time at all, she tells me. But she’s not the one waiting. In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls preg ...Show more
Extinctions: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 by Josephine Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
WINNER of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 He hated the word retirement, but not as much as he hated the word village, as if ageing made you a peasant or a fool. Herein lives the village idiot. Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist des ...Show more
Locust Summer by David Allan-Petale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Shortlisted for The Australian Vogel's Literary Award, Locust Summer celebrates the wide-open beauty of Australia's regions while exploring the heartbreaks that come from living on the land. On the cusp of summer, 1986, Rowan Brockman's mother asks if he can come home to Septimus in the Western Australi ...Show more
Night Blue by Angela O’Keeffe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original and absorbing approach to revisiting Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner as artists and people, as well as a realigning our ideas around ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2021: A new collection of short fiction from Kill Your Darlings by Rebecca Starford (Editor)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A son becomes enthralled in his father’s quest for treasure. A young woman is blamed for an unfathomable act. Teenagers break into an airfield. Strangers meet in the night. The world is thrown into chaos when people spontaneously combust.New Australian Fiction features brilliant writers with distinct ex ...Show more