All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance ...Show more
The Women in Black: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. It's Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies' Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rus ...Show more
Fair Game A Tasmanian Memoir by Carmel Bird
$10.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This long essay is an engagingly personal, playful and thoughtful examination of the arrival in 1832 in Tasmania of a shipload of women, sent to redress the imbalance of genders in that colonial settlement. Carmel also has a collection of stories, My Hearts Are Your Hearts, released recently by Spineles ...Show more
Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Stella Shortlist 2019) by Jamie Marina Lau
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Embracing the noir tradition and featuring a prose style quite unlike any before, with references that will go both over your head and under your feet, Pink Mountain on Locust Island will flip readers upside ...Show more
Something Bad is Going to Happen by Jessie Stephens
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric unit recovering from a mental breakdown. A decade earlier, her life held such promise; she had every option in her hand. How did it come to this? As we go back and walk with Adella through her twenties, she ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A brilliant first novel of profound depth, startling originality and breathtaking talent from Sofie Laguna, author of the 2015 winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the most recent bestseller The Choke.
Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Following his previous best-selling, prize-winning novels, The Ancestor Game and Conditions ..of Faith, Alex Miller's new novel is a superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and ..reconciliation.
Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Fortunes rise and fall. One day you have a lucky ticket and get a dinner so good and you eat so much that you think you'll never need to eat again. You get busy making plans and then the hunger comes looking for you. I'm just an old man selling lucky tickets, but my theory is that we all get our turn in ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an American corporation runs prison security, so the malware infects some 5000 American places of incarceration. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten t ...Show more