The Grass Hotel by Craig Sherborne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Carry me, son. Do not leave me behind.Are you listening to me?Of course you're listening, you say, and add the F-word. Off you go to cope with a storm. Lucerne armfuls for horses. For cows, plain hay. Alone in the paddocks of his grass hotel a man tends to his beloved horses, Socks and Boy. The voice o ...Show more
Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS by Maggie Nelson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
At the End of the Day by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Mim Squires and Mathias Vander are stranded together on a disrupted flight home to Perth, they are surprised to find that they have much in common. Mim owns a bookshop, Mathias is a writer, and both are at turning points in their lives. Mim's childhood polio is taking a toll on her life. Mathias is ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In one terrible moment Jaxie Clackton's life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There's just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only ...Show more
Benevolence by Julie Janson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For perhaps the first time in novel form, Benevolence presents an important era in Australia’s history from an Aboriginal perspective. Benevolence is told from the perspective of Darug woman, Muraging (Mary James), born around 1813. Mary’s was one of the earliest Darug generations to experience the impa ...Show more
The Book of Ordinary People by Claire Varley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"The Book of Ordinary People is a heart-warming and thought-provoking novel that reminds us to value what matters most - our families, our friends and humanity as a whole. " ReadingsA grieving daughter navigates the morning commute, her mind bursting with memories pleading to be shared. A man made entir ...Show more
The Farmers Wife by Rachael Treasure
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Rebecca Saunders married larrikin Charlie Lewis and they settled down together on her beloved property, Waters Meeting, she thought she knew her future. But ten years on, two kids later, and with a failing farm, Rebecca is beginning to face some hard questions. Where did the free-spirited jillaroo ...Show more
Barra Creek by Di Morrissey
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An outback family saga that is funny, poignant and completely unexpected from Australia's favourite storyteller with the new novel Arcadia out soon.Di's 12th novel opens in New Zealand in the 1960s. The Mitchell family has run a prosperous sheep farm for generations and the youngest daughter, Sally, has ...Show more
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner, Prize for Fiction, The 2018 Victorian Premier''s Literary Awards ''Melanie Cheng is an astonishingly deft and incisive writer. With economy and elegance, she creates a dazzling mosaic of contemporary life, of how we live now. Hers is a compelling new voice in Australian literature.'' Christos T ...Show more
The Sunken Road by Garry Disher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
At the height of the Great Depression, with farmers walking off the land and the city's creeks lined with kerosene-tin shanties, a young mother is taken by a shark in the shallows at Henley Beach. Her grieving husband flees north with his baby son to the town of Pandowie, far from the treacherous ocean. ...Show more
Hydra (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Adriane Howell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'From the treacherous auction houses of Melbourne to the sun-struck islands of Greece, Hydra took me places I never expected to go. Adriane Howell writes with the dreamy precision of Marguerite Duras, the humour-laced disquiet of Patricia Highsmith. A fever dream of a debut - elegant, savage, and deligh ...Show more