Room for a Stranger (C-format) by Melanie Cheng
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
By the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might b ...Show more
Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's the summer of 1968, and Evelyn Lynden is a woman at war with herself. Minister's daughter. Atheist. Independent woman. Frustrated wife. Bitch with a bleeding heart. Following her conscientious-objector husband Lenny to the rural Eden of Evergreen Valley, California, Evelyn wants to be happy with t ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
The Cake Maker's Wish by Josephine Moon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Life in the village isn't always sweet and simple . . . When single mum Olivia uproots her young son Darcy from their life in Tasmania for a new start in the English Cotswolds, she isn't exactly expecting a bed of roses - but nor is she prepared for the challenges that life in the picturesque village t ...Show more
The Application of Pressure by Rachael Mead
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For paramedics Tash and Joel, a regular workday is like a supercut of the worst days of other people’s lives. They maintain their sanity through a friendship built on black humour, but as the constant exposure to trauma takes its toll, both, in different ways, must fight to preserve their mental hea ...Show more
Barracuda (TV Tie In) by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Tender and brutal and blazingly brilliant, the new novel from the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Slaptakes an unflinching look at modern Australia - at our hopes and dreams, our friendships and our families - and asks what it means to be a good person, and what it takes to become o ...Show more
The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This is the story of a love song - one that began its life not with a fanfare or a crash of cymbals, but with a knock at a door . . . After seven happy years of togetherness, Arie Johnson is still pinching himself that Diana Clare - the Diana Clare - loves him as much as he loves her. For her part, Dian ...Show more
The Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Manning renders Shanghai as a riot of flavors, sights, and sounds, its elegance clashing against gritty poverty in this exquisite window into the past.' - Booklist, starred review 'Kirsty Manning has woven, blended, sewn the threads of history, family secrets, the past and the present into a page-turnin ...Show more
Pink Mountain on Locust Island (Stella Shortlist 2019) by Jamie Marina Lau
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Embracing the noir tradition and featuring a prose style quite unlike any before, with references that will go both over your head and under your feet, Pink Mountain on Locust Island will flip readers upside ...Show more
Revelations of a Spanish Infanta by Muirden, Sallie
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the 1996 HarperCollins Fiction Prize"Yesterday in my studio, the desire came upon me. the desire to paint both girls naked. the pregnant Queen with her Vesuvian belly hiding beneath the swirls of Persian silk the colour of hearth-fire and the other, the stepdaughter, sitting quietly beside her ...Show more
The Lost Pages by Marija Pericic
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Vogel Literary Prize Winner 2017
'first rate ...great humour too' Stephen Romei, The Australian 'never lets up ...hugely entertaining' Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost 'an intriguing concept' Jenny Barry, BooksPlus