The Everlasting Sunday by Robert Lukins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
During the freezing English winter of 1962, seventeen-year-old Radford is sent to Goodwin Manor, a home for boys who have been 'found by trouble'. Drawn immediately to the charismatic West, Radford soon discovers that each one of them has something to hide.Life at the Manor offers a refuge of sorts, but ...Show more
Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An unsettling, brilliant novel about the truths and lies of mythology and history from the acclaimed author of The Slap. Isaac is a photographer in his mid-30, travelling through Europe. It is the post-Cold War Europe of a united currency, illegal immigration and of a globalised homogenous culture. In h ...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
Sargasso by Kathy George
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An empty house, a lonely shore, an enigmatic, brooding man-child waiting for her return ... a trip to the dark lands of Australian Gothic, for readers of Kate Morton and Hannah Richell. Last night I dreamt I went to Sargasso again ... As a child, Hannah lived at Sargasso, the isolated beachside home des ...Show more
The Royal Correspondent by Alexandra Joel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Paris Model comes another breathtaking story of glamour, romance and espionage. Success would depend on taking a dangerous risk. When Blaise Hill, a feisty young journalist from one of Sydney's toughest neighbourhoods, is dispatched to London at the dawn of the swingi ...Show more
Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gently ...Show more
On a Barbarous Coast by Craig Cormick; Harold Ludwick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On a Barbarous Coast is an alternative retelling of Captain James Cook's story co-written by Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick in the tradition of imagined histories. We were becoming the wild things we most feared, but could not see it at the time.On a night of raging winds and rain, Captain Cook's End ...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
Home and Other Hiding Places by Jack Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When eight-year-old Fin and his mum Lindy travel to spend Christmas with his Gran in Sydney, Fin assumes they’ll return to their isolated country property – the only home he’s ever known. But he soon discovers that this large and crumbling riverside house, surrounded by bush and unwelcoming neighbours, ...Show more
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. F ...Show more
Summer Lovin' by Liz Byrski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Summer Lovin' brings you fourteen stories about love from some of Australia's best-known writers. From love found to love lost, from first times to second chances, in the city, on the land and through every chamber of the heart, these uniquely Australian stories are as moving as they are entertaining. ...Show more
The Artist's Portrait by Julie Keys
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: 1920 Sydney ; Richelle Prize ; | Reading Level: near fine
A story about art, murder, and making your place in history. Whatever it was that drew me to Muriel, it wasn't her charm. In 1992, morning sickness drives Jane to pre-dawn walks of her neighbourhood where she meets an unfriendly woman who sprays her with a hose as she passes by. When they do talk: Murie ...Show more