Uncertain Corridors by Gideon Haigh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Five years ago, Australia's cricket team led the world, holding the World Cup, the Ashes, and the Border-Gavaskar and Sir Frank Worrell trophies. Today, it languishes in mid-table and cricket itself is regarded as in crisis. How did we go so wrong? Gideon Haigh has had a front row seat on that decline a ...Show more
Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion; Anne Buist
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Each looking to make a new start, Zoe and Martin set out independently to walk two thousand kilometres from Cluny in France to Santiago in Spain, in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the Camino -- The Way -- for centuries. The Camino changes you, it's said. It's a chance to find a new version of ...Show more
The Toymaker by Liam Pieper
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A person is defined by the secrets they keep. Adam Kulakov likes his life. He's on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he can reasonably ...Show more
Sorry by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This is a story that can only be told in a whisper...In the remote outback of North-west Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her childhood is far from ordinary; a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and ...Show more
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and by the new photographic technology. Her perception of ...Show more
A Scandal in Bohemia by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - until one night in 1930 she was brutally slain by an unknown kill ...Show more
Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Searching for the Secret Riveris the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman - transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life - who later became a wealthy man and built his colonia ...Show more
Parlour Games for Modern Families by Myfanwy Jones, Spiri Tsintziras
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Parlour Games for Modern Families, a book for fun-lovers aged four to 104, winds back the clock to remind you of games you'd forgotten and then a whole lot more. So, gather the family together; ask over some friends. Warm the milk for hot cocoa, play Squeak Piggy Squeak, and watch the good feeling sprea ...Show more
The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A Requiem for the Office by Gideon Haigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to t ...Show more
The Olive Sisters by Amanda Hampson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
I open the gate and walk into the field . . . As the sun pours a river of light down this valley, I realise there are hundreds and hundreds of trees and I've seen those silver leaves before, not here in Australia, but shimmering in the groves that grace the terraced hillsides of Tuscany.' When Adrienne' ...Show more
The Long Shadow by Anne Buist
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Write down something about yourself, as a mother, that worries you. Psychologist Isabel Harris has come to the outback town of Riley because her husband Dean is assessing the hospital--the hub of the community--with a view to closing it down. Isabel, mostly occupied with her toddler, will run a mother-b ...Show more
The Last Man in Europe: A Novel by Dennis Glover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
April, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four. Forty-four years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, Orwell comes to see the book as his legacy - the culmination of ...Show more