Marlo by Jay Carmichael
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The stunning new novel from the author of Ironbark.It's the 1950s in conservative Australia, and Christopher, a young gay man, moves to 'the City' to escape the repressive atmosphere of his tiny hometown. Once there, however, he finds that it is just as censorial and punitive, in its own way.Then Christ ...Show more
The Talented Mrs Greenway by Tea Cooper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of an enigmatic figure, wife to feted colonial architect Francis Greenway, and asks, whose hand really shaped Sydney? Who is the talented Mrs Greenway? 1814 Sydney Town When Mary Greenway, freshly arrived fro ...Show more
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times BestsellerAn Indie Next PickA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA rare seventeenth-century painting -- the only known surviving work of a woman who defied the expectations of her time -- links three lives, on three continents, over three centuries in this exhilarating new novel ...Show more
The Messenger by Markus Zusak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Meet Ed Kennedy - cab driving prodigy, pathetic card player and useless at sex. He lives in the suburbs, shares coffee with his dog, the Doorman, and he's in nervous-love with Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence - until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the firs ...Show more
The Mother's Promise by Sally Hepworth
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
<b>Three women, one girl and the tie that binds them.</b> Alice and her daughter Zoe have been a team of two all their lives. They've never needed anyone else - until Alice gets sick. Alice reaches out to two near-strangers: Kate, her oncology nurse, and Sonja, her social worker. As the live ...Show more
The Year of the Farmer by Rosalie Ham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a quiet farming town somewhere in country New South Wales, war is brewing.The last few years have been punishingly dry, especially for the farmers, but otherwise, it's all Neralie Mackintosh's fault. If she'd never left town then her ex, the hapless but extremely eligible Mitchell Bishop, would never ...Show more
The Riders by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Fred Scully is determined to carve a new life for himself and his young family in Ireland. For months he has laboured alone to make their dilapidated cottage habitable, and now his wife and child are coming to meet him: this will be their fresh start. But when he arrives at the airport to collect them, ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2013 STEELE RUDD AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 KIBBLE AWARD From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again ...Show more
The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into t ...Show more
Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020I can split myself in two . . . something I have to do because of Joy and Matilde. They are my grandmothers and I love them both and they totally love me but they can't stand each other. Eleven-year-old Allegra shuttles between her grandmothers who live next door to one another bu ...Show more
The Jerilderie Letter: Text Classics by Ned Kelly
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has no alternative only to put up with the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped s ...Show more