THE INDIGENOUS LITERATURE OF AUSTRALIA MILLI MILLI WANGKA by MUDROOROO
$29.95 AUD
Category: First Nations
Here is a wide-ranging, critical survey of the literature, both oral and written, of the indigenous people of Australia. Mudrooroo is in a unique position to tell the history of indigenous literature and to comment on the key writers and texts. This is an essential starting point for anyone wishing to k ...Show more
Harry Curry - Counsel of Choice by Stuart Littlemore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Harry Curry Ser.
Ugly, irascible, intolerant, clever. From one of our sharpest legal minds comes a brilliant new character, Harry Curry - scion of the establishment and criminal defender extraordinaire. A class traitor, some say. When Harry's robust advocacy leads to his suspension for professional misconduct, he teams ...Show more
The Chase by Christopher Kremmer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"They're all doing it...It's not so much a contest between horses, as a race to find the best recipe." When young scientist Jean Campbell is hired to eliminate drugs in sport she enters a murky world where power, privilege and corruption mix easily. In 1940s Sydney, Jean and her charismatic boss Howar ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his own. It's a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. Told through the eyes of eight of those present at the barbecue, this acclaimed bestseller is an unflinching i ...Show more
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away. From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some survive to ...Show more
Cold Light (#3 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: The\Edith Trilogy
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the oldest cities of the world to live in the newest city of the world - she had ...Show more
The Girl and the Ghost-grey Mare by Rachael Treasure
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Anyone who knows Rachael Treasure's writing knows that she writes a ripper short story - full of warmth and heart and humour and with characters as lively and lovable as Rachael herself. Although many try to, no one can replicate that special, original 'Treasure take' on the world that comes through in ...Show more
The Cook by Wayne Macauley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Power through service, says Head Chef. It's one of the first lessons taught at Cook School, where troubled youths learn to be master chefs by bowing to decadence and whim, by offering up a part of themselves on every plate. It's a motto Zac takes to heart. A teenage boy with a difficult past, he throws ...Show more
That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 - Picador 40th by Kim Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance, but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together..." Told through the eyes of black and white, young and old, this is a story about a fledgling Western ...Show more
Wind In The Wires by Joy Dettman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The wind is whispering in Woody CreekChange is in the air It's 1958 and Woody Creek is being dragged kicking and screaming into the swinging sixties. Jenny's daughters, Cara and Georgie, are now young women. They have inherited their mother's hands, but that is where their similarity ends. Raised separa ...Show more
Murder at Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher #12) by Kerry Greenwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The divine Phryne Fisher returns to lead another dance of intrigue. Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead ... under very suspicious circumstances.Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert and ...Show more
The Architecture of Song by Gary Crew
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'I lived many lives beneath that piano ...I heard ten thousand stories in that space. There I was privileged to observe, to gather -- and not only gather, to concentrate within myself -- so much that is usually denied a child of my age. As a result, I have, you might say, grown.' So says Augustus Trump ...Show more