The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
<b>Everyone in this family is hiding something.</b> You may get to choose your partner, but you don't get to choose your mother-in-law. From the moment Lucy met Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Even after marrying Oliver, Lucy knew they'd never be close. But who could fault Diana? A pill ...Show more
Factory 19 by Dennis Glover
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
They tell us that human happiness lies only in the future. But what if it really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022- a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery ...Show more
The Dickens Boy by Tom Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In this joyful novel, our narrator is Charles Dickens's tenth child, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn. Sent, as his brother Alfred had been before him, at sixteen years of age, to Australia to learn to 'apply himself'. We follow his early Australian adventures in outback NSW learning to beco ...Show more
Woman of the Future - Text Classics by David Ireland; Kate Jennings (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"Immense originality, wit, and gritty wisdom. . . . David Ireland has reached the top."--Patrick WhiteAn imaginative tour de force, A Woman of the Future is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt--from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Aus ...Show more
The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie
$17.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: The\Dalai Lama's Cat Ser.
"'Oh How adorable I didn't know you had a cat ' she exclaimed.I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?'If only she could speak, ' continued the actress. 'I'm sure she'd have such wisdom to share.'And so the seed was planted . . .I began to thin ...Show more
Gunflower (Short Stories) by Laura Jean McKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of The Animals in That Country. A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship plows through the patriarchy. A support group finds sola ...Show more
The Windy Season by Sam Carmody
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the mid-west town of Geraldton on the central coast of Western Australia. He is also a previous recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards and his short fiction and non-fic ...Show more
Black Sheep by Judy Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Judy Nunn's new blockbuster is a sweeping historical novel about a prosperous sheep-farming family and the enigmatic young man with a dark past they let into their lives . . .Black sheep - there's one in every family . . .Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determined to be a gun shearer like his f ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
MACEDONIA, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at the centre ...Show more
Codebreakers by Alli Sinclair
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
They will dedicate their lives to their country, but no one will ever know... A compelling story about tenacity and friendship, inspired by the real codebreaking women of Australia's top-secret Central Bureau in WWII. For readers who love Judy Nunn and Kate Quinn. 1943, Brisbane: The war continues to ...Show more
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from a working-class background to be at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. Her masterful line of questioning in the courtroom has netted Tessa win after win, f ...Show more
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s ...Show more