Common People by Tony Birch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In this unforgettable new collection, Tony Birch introduces a cast of characters from all walks of life. These remarkable and surprising stories capture common people caught up in the everyday business of living and the struggle to survive. From two single mothers on the most unlikely night shift to a h ...Show more
The Summertime of Our Dreams by Michael Pascoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
To be invited to walk beside a dying man, a good man, to be asked into his mind as its existence is counted down, to be offered his gaze into the abyss, to know another soul in the honesty of the deathbed. A privilege. Here is a moving and unusual memoir by Michael Pascoe about his relationship with Ji ...Show more
The Other Side of Beautiful (PB) by Kim Lock
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
What happens when fate says 'go'? Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out novel where a vulnerable misfit is forced to re-engage with the world, despite her best efforts. Meet Mercy Blain, whose house has just burnt down. Unfortunately for Mercy, this goes beyond the disaster it ...Show more
City of Crows by Chris Womersley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"Chris Womersley's haunting novel City of Crows will take you into a nightmare labyrinth where superstition rules and where it seems the Devil calls the tune." Weekend Australian France, 1673. Desperate to save herself and her only surviving child from an outbreak of plague, the widow Charlotte Picot fl ...Show more
The Dogs by John Hughes
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'The story of a life is a secret as life itself. A life that can be explained is no life at all.' Elias CanettiIs it possible to write about the living without imagining them dead?Michael Shamanov is a man running away from life's responsibilities. His marriage is over, he barely sees his son and he has ...Show more
Grimmish by Michael Winkler
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience. On the east coast Grim played a supporting role in the Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns F ...Show more
Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An extraordinary novel from a 'remarkable' Booker Prize-winning author who has 'constructed her own novelistic form' (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani woman as she builds a life for herself in Britain and reflects on the relationships that have made her. Zuhur, an Omani student ...Show more
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be an enviably contented family. Now that Joy and Stan have sold the family business they have all the time in the world to learn how to 'relax'. Their four adult children are busy living their own lives, and while it could be argued they never quite achieved the ...Show more
This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
If you feel that sense that there is something missing from your life, some gap between who you are on the inside and who you are on the outside - then this is the book for you. This is, as the title says, not actually a book about Benedict Cumberbatch. In fact, it's a book about women and what we love ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'He tilted his desk lamp so that the light fell on the image. The head of a bright bay colt gazed out of the canvas, the expression in the eyes unusual and haunting.' A discarded painting in a roadside clean-up, forgotten bones in a research archive, and Lexington, the greatest racehorse in US history. ...Show more
The Nancys by R.W.R. McDonald
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Tippy Chan is eleven and lives in a small town in a very quiet part of the world - the place her Uncle Pike escaped from the first chance he got as a teenager. Now Pike is back with his new boyfriend Devon to look after Tippy while her mum's on a cruise. When Tippy's teacher's body is found beside Rive ...Show more