Golden Days by Caroline Barron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My NameBecky thought she'd left Zoe Golden and that summer far behind. Until now.Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Be ...Show more
Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Ghosts of the Orphanage is the result of ten years of investigation by award-winning journalist Christine Kenneally. What she has uncovered is shocking, yet it was all hiding in plain sight. Terrible things, abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths have happened in orphanages all over the ...Show more
Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Things haven't gone well for Simon Larsen lately. He adores his wife and children, but since his business failed and he lost the family home, he can't seem to get off the couch. His larger-than-life in-laws, the Schnabels, won't get off his case. To keep everyone happy, Simon needs to do one little job: ...Show more
The Family String by Denise Picton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A darkly funny and poignant coming of age story by an extraordinary new voice Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old struggling to contain her irrepressible humour and naughty streak in a family of Christadelphians in 1960s Adelaide. She is her mother’s least favourite child and always at the bottom of ...Show more
Gold Digger: Chasing the mother lode in a man's world by Tyler Mahoney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"If you haven't seen a Discovery Channel gold-hunting show, you might picture a gold prospector as a relic of the Wild West: a TNT-toting, bearded old man wildly swinging a pick on the hunt for nuggets, guided by old maps, superstition, legends and instinct. It's still predominantly a man's world, and s ...Show more
Unbounded: Manifesting a life without limits by Maria Thattil
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Transcend limiting beliefs and transform your life, so that you can manifest your limitless potential. Part inspiration, part memoir, Unbounded is a soulful exploration of identity and self-love when we are freed from society's expectations of us.What would you change in your life if you could silence t ...Show more
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance an ...Show more
Pulse Points: Stories by Jennifer Down
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It was a hot summer, then it was a hot fall. Thursdays were Lux's night off. We went swimming in the Merced. I have this picture in my head of her, hair dripping wet towel draped over her shoulders and tied under her chin like a superhero's cape; pale thighs, legs like two young shoots, hiking boots. In ...Show more
Showtime! by Judy Nunn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'So, Will, are you going to come with me and my team of merry performers to the sunny climes of Australia, where the crowds are already queuing and the streets are paved with gold?'In the second half of the 19th century, Melbourne is a veritable boom town, as hopefuls from every corner of the globe floc ...Show more
Marlo by Jay Carmichael
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The stunning new novel from the author of Ironbark.It's the 1950s in conservative Australia, and Christopher, a young gay man, moves to 'the City' to escape the repressive atmosphere of his tiny hometown. Once there, however, he finds that it is just as censorial and punitive, in its own way.Then Christ ...Show more
Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Charlie's skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousness--that sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes from Eleanor's loving gaze. Her throat taut with tears, she swallowed. 'You're a good sister, Eleanor." ''Don't say that.' After two years of lo ...Show more
The Midsummer Garden by Kirsty Manning
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Travelling between lush gardens in France, windswept coastlines of Tasmania, to Tuscan hillsides and beyond, The Midsummer Garden lures the reader on an unforgettable culinary and botanical journey. 1487 Artemisia is young to be in charge of the kitchens at Chateau de Boschaud but, having been taught th ...Show more