Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Hannan's Kokomo is a sharply observed novel of one woman's facade and how it falls; an undoing that is both ordinary and compelling. This debut heralds an exciting new Australian voice with a story of estrangement from kin, friendship, love, self and country - one that will be familiar to many, and surp ...Show more
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'The novel flows like the great Murrumbidgee River itself, with powerful undercurrents that sweep the reader along - I feel it's a book that all Australians should read, to try and understand why our colonial past still causes so much pain and grievance.’ – Kate Forsyth
Homecoming: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Elfie Shiosaki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Our grandmothers' stories teach us about Aboriginal women's ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in ...Show more
The Family Doctor by Debra Oswald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Debra Oswald is always deft at capturing the nuances of female friendship and romantic attraction, but this time she brings them to a pitch of pulse-racing intensity. Delving into the dark world of domestic violence and society's abject failure to protect those most vulnerable, she has produced a gripp ...Show more
Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'I loved every page of this funny, warm, delightful novel!' LIANE MORIARTY You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and family. Things haven't gone well for Simon Larsen lately. He adores his wife, Tansy, and his children, but since his business fai ...Show more
Hovering by Rhett Davis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The city was in the same place. But was it the same city? Alice stands outside her family's 1950s red brick veneer, unsure if she should approach. It has been sixteen years, but it's clear she is out of options. Lydia opens the door to a familiar stranger - thirty-nine, tall, bony, pale. She knows her ...Show more
Too Many Men by Lily Brett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Ruth Rothwax, a successful woman with her own business, Rothwax Correspondence, can find order and meaning in writing words for other people - condolence letters, thank-you letters, even you-were-great-in-bed letters. But as the daughter of Edek Rothwax, an Auschwitz survivor with a somewhat idiosyncrat ...Show more
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Tom Loxley, an Indian-Australian professor, is less concerned with finishing his book on Henry James than with finding his dog, who is lost in the Australian bush. Joining his daily hunt is Nelly Zhang, an artist whose husband disappeared mysteriously years before Tom met her. Although Nelly helps him ...Show more
Praise by Andrew McGahan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of The "Australian"/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Canada-Australia Literary Award. "Praise" is an utterly frank and dar ...Show more
Benang by Kim Scott
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful ...Show more
Water Music by Christine Balint
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Viva la Novella
Winner of Viva la Novella IX In eighteenth-century Venice, orphan Lucietta is raised by a fisherman's family yet supported by a secret benefactor to study music. At 16, she takes up her position at the Derelitti Convent, one of the prestigious musical orphanages for girls, playing the violin in the ense ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism. 'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.' Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upsi ...Show more