Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Gripis regarded as a masterpiece - the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, ...Show more
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
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. Winner: Sydney Morning Heral ...Show more
The Airways by Jennifer Mills
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
I had a body once before. I didn't always love it. I knew the skin as my limit, and there were times I longed to leave it.bI knew better than to wish for this. This is the story of Yun. It's the story of Adam. Two young people. A familiar chase. But this is not a love story. It's a story of revenge, tra ...Show more
Dark As Last Night by Tony Birch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A masterful new story collection from award-winning Indigenous writer Tony Birch. Dark as Last Night confirms, once again, that Tony Birch is a master of the short story. These exceptional stories capture the importance of human connection at pivotal moments in our lives, whether those occur because of ...Show more
Breath by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The bestseller from the author of the upcoming new novel The Year of the Farmer. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE WINSLET AND LIAM HEMSWORTHTilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier ...Show more
Shadowboxing by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
COMMENDED FOR THE 2011 KATE CHALLIS RAKA AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 QUEENSLAND PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS -- AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rend ...Show more
Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Emily Tempest Novels Ser.
Shortlisted FALS Colin Roderick Award, 2010. Emily Tempest: small, black, snaky as a taipan's tooth. The woman least likely ever to embark on a career in policing. Until she becomes the Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the outback (not to mention throwback) township of Bluebush. Her new boss is ...Show more
Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not by Imbi Neeme
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A charming, nostalgic, quirky, uplifting novel of people young and old finding their tribe, gaining courage to be themselves and perhaps falling in love, too. Librarian Phoebe Cotton lives with misophonia. The sound of other people crunching an apple, slurping their tea or snapping chewing gum fills he ...Show more
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A brilliantly original, funny and astute debut that examines how we navigate life, love and choice in a world of never-ending options .. You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence - from p ...Show more
Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day -- in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up -- she doesn't know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed. On ...Show more