The Strays by Emily Bitto
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In The Strays, Evan Trentham is the wild child of the Melbourne art world of the 1930s. He and his captivating wife, Helena, attempt to carve out their own small niche, to escape the stifling conservatism they see around them, by gathering together other like-minded artists. They create a utopian circle ...Show more
7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a hotel room on a sleepy Pacific island, Judy Novak waits. And worries. It isn't the first time 29-year-old problem child Paulina has kept her mother waiting. But Judy can't ignore the island's jagged cliffs and towering pines - or the dread that Paulina has finally acted on her threats to take her o ...Show more
The Eye of the Sheep by Sofie Laguna
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2015 Voss Literary Prize and the 2015 Stella PrizeLonglisted for the 2016 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Meet Jimmy Flick. He's not like other kids - he's both too fast and too slow. He sees too much, and too little. Jimmy's ...Show more
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and violate men in front of their wives. The temple priests flay us openly in the streets. We are hunted everywhere and we are hunted by ev ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: good
'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, ...Show more
The Lebs: Miles Franklin Literary Award Finalist by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad. 'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and over until finally I shout back, 'Shut up, I have something to say!' They all go quiet and wait for me to explain myself, redeem myself, ...Show more
Bereft by Chris Womersley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is the end of the world. In the NSW town of Flint, Quinn Walker returns to the home he ...Show more
Orchardist's Daughter by Karen Viggers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Sixteen-year-old Mikaela has grown up isolated and homeschooled on an apple orchard in southeastern Tasmania, until an unexpected event shatters her family. Eighteen months later, she and her older brother Kurt are running a small business in a timber town. Miki longs to make connections and spend more ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermann’s soft footfalls in the open (but far from empty) spaces between earth and sky; from sandstone to wetlands, from p ...Show more
Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles together. We took up Christianity together. We entered into new citizenships together. We became wage workers together. We lived with generations upon generations stacked in fibro houses ...Show more