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The Performance by Claire Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The breakout literary sensation of 2021, THE PERFORMANCE is a tightly woven examination of women's inner lives that is enthralling, profound and deeply human. The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the ne ...Show more
O by Steven Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales...' Occupied France, 1943. France's most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a m ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan. In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn't have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coinc ...Show more
The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Wandering's jumping-off point is the story of Dorothy and her ruby slippers, which readers are invited to slip on, allowing them to roam on a path of their own choosing between New York, Berlin, Jakarta, Lima and beyond. Sydney-based Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha has been heralded as one of a ...Show more
Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Set during the gold-rush era in Australia, this remarkable novel is full of unforgettable characters and deals with timeless questions of identity and belonging.Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields i ...Show more
A Million Things by Emily Spurr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For as long as Rae can remember, it's been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable, family. They have their walks, their cooking routines, their home. Sometimes Mum disappears for a while to clear her head but Rae is okay with this, because Mum always comes back. So, whe ...Show more
The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman (PB) by Julietta Henderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It will make you laugh, it will make you cry - definitely one of the best books we've read! What do you get when you cross a painfully awkward son, lofty comedic ambition and a dead best friend? Norman. Norman and Jax are a legendary comedic duo in waiting, with a five-year plan to perform at the Edinbu ...Show more
Infinite Splendours by Sofie Laguna
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A bold new literary novel from the author of the award-winning The Eye of the Sheep and The Choke. Lawrence Loman is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his mother and younger brother, and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is ten, a ...Show more
The Beach Caves by Trevor Shearston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Please. I'm in hell!' The truth of that was in his face. The rims of his eyes were red-raw, his hair was matted, he hadn't shaved since knocking at her door, when he'd been clean-shaven - one of the few details she remembered of that blurred encounter. 'I know why you're avoiding me. Whoever told the c ...Show more
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling new book from Evie Wyld, winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the f ...Show more
The Family Doctor by Debra Oswald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A novel of searing emotional truth, told with the relentless pull of a thriller, from the award-winning creator of Offspring. he Family Doctor is a compelling thriller - fast-paced, gripping and frightening. But is more than that because it is a story that draws desperately needed attention to domestic ...Show more
