The French Gift by Kirsty Manning
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A World War Two story of female friendship, longing and sacrifice through war and loss, bringing together the present and the past. 'Kirsty Manning has delivered yet again with this epic novel about women, love and heartbreak. With passion and sensitivity, Manning takes the reader on a journey that is ...Show more
The Wasp and The Orchid: The remarkable life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'[A] brilliant biography' Australian Women's Weekly' Undoubtedly a remarkable woman' Weekend Australian' Danielle Clode breathes life into the story of Edith Coleman... an approachable blend of biography, science, nature writing and social history.' Adelaide Advertiser In 1922, a 48-year-old housewif ...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
Born Into This by Adam Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The stories in Born Into This throw light on a world of unique cultural practice and perspective, from Indigenous rangers trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and co ...Show more
The Moroccan Daughter by Deborah Rodriguez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Morocco: a captivating country of honor and tradition. And, for these four women, a land of secrets and revelations. From the twisted alleyways of the ancient medina of Fès to a marriage festival high in the Atlas Mountains, Deborah Rodriguez’s entrancing new bestseller is a modern story of forbidden ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Schooldays of Jesus, is the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee's widely praised The Childhood of Jesus David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to ...Show more
Death Leaves the Station by Alexander Thorpe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Set in 1927, the story takes all the classic elements of an interwar murder mystery and gives it a distinctive Australian flavour. A nameless friar turns up at Halfwell Station, at the same time that Ana, the adopted daughter of the station owners, discovers a body in the desert nearby when she goes for ...Show more
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second W ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Consolation (#3 Paul Hirschhausen) by Garry Disher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Hirsch Ser.
In Consolation, Tiverton’s only police officer Constable Paul Hirschhausen is dealing with a snowdropper. Someone is stealing women’s underwear, and Hirsch knows how that kind of crime can escalate. Then two calls come in: a teacher who thinks a child may be in danger at home. A father on the rampage ov ...Show more
The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An extraordinary debut, a story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ... In Berlin, who can you trust? A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ... It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husba ...Show more
Providence by Max Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon a brilliant work of science fiction that tells the intimate tale of four people facing their most desperate hour--alone, together, at the edge of the universe. The video changed everything. Before that, we could believe that we were safe. Spec ...Show more