Sanctuary: From the international bestselling author of the Hirsch series by Garry Disher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Grace is a thief: a good one. She was taught by experts and she's been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items--stamps, watches--and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it's a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It's not the life sh ...Show more
Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Leap comes an unforgettable new novel about fathers and sons, and the damage that can ripple through generations. 'Frank feared a reckoning, but what he feared more was that all the men in his family were cursed. And that however hard he tried to be good, h ...Show more
Bird Life: a novel by Anna Smaill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet ...Show more
Puberty Blues by Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
I don't recall reading Puberty Blues so much as devouring it. I was about thirteen, alone in my bedroom with the door firmly shut. I was fascinated. Kylie MinogueA revolutionary and timeless book.'By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night - in the back of cars, under the bowling alley, ...Show more
Quota by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees that the sea air might be good ...Show more
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out.Not far from Da ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father''s ...Show more
Preservation by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Seventeen men survived the shipwreck of the rum-smuggling Sydney Cove--but only three are picked up on a beach near the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797. The three men have walked hundreds of miles across an alien landscape. They are distressed and injured. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive- ...Show more
Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Following his previous best-selling, prize-winning novels, The Ancestor Game and Conditions ..of Faith, Alex Miller's new novel is a superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and ..reconciliation.
Women and Children (HB) by Tony Birch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and ...Show more
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A witty, profound and painfully relatable debut novel exploring solitude, desire, and the allure of chasing something that promises nothing. Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditioned newsroom by day and kicking around Sydney ...Show more