The Golden Book by Kate Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
''Jessie had said they should go at midnight. It's the gods' time, she said, narrowing her eyes dramatically. Anything could happen.' It's the 1980s, and Ali and her best friend, Jessie, are on the cusp. In the simmering heat of summer, in their small coastal town, they are starting to chafe at the res ...Show more
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling new book from Evie Wyld, winner of the Miles Franklin Award. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fat ...Show more
At the Edge of the Solid World by Daniel Davis Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'the tale is made seamless by a tight structure and a hypnotic style that seems to owe something to the work of Gerald Murnane.' Kerryn Goldsworthy Sydney Morning Herald on Blood and Bone In a snowbound village in the heart of the Alps, a husband and wife find their lives breaking apart in the days and ...Show more
Pieta by Michael Fitzgerald
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
These are the last days of 1999. At St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, as the world waits for the new millennium, Lucy, a young Australian woman looks up at Michelangelo’s Pietà behind its pane of bullet-proof glass; a red kabbalah string circles her wrist. She has come with the mysterious parcel her recently ...Show more
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Laguna shows all the mastery of language that garnered her a Miles Franklin Award... The Choke is full of richly drawn characters; beauty and ugliness sit squatly side by side.' The Big Issue "I never had words to ask anybody the questions, so I never had the answers..." Abandoned by her mother and s ...Show more
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