Puberty Blues by Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
I don't recall reading Puberty Blues so much as devouring it. I was about thirteen, alone in my bedroom with the door firmly shut. I was fascinated. Kylie MinogueA revolutionary and timeless book.'By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night - in the back of cars, under the bowling alley, ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
There were things that I wanted to say. Things I knew I couldn't say but needed to tell someone. And then the things I knew I should say. What they wanted to hear. There is never only one version. Novelist JB Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. He ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more
The Boat by Nam Le
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le's The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world.Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an aging painter mourning the de ...Show more
Quota by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees that the sea air might be good ...Show more
On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out.Not far from Da ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Savage: think Atwood in the outback' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train'An unforgettable reading experience' Liane Moriarity, author of Big Little Lies'Ferocious... recalls the early Elena Ferrante' NPR'A masterpiece' Guardian'Devastating' Economist She hears her own thick voice deep insid ...Show more
The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota
$34.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room, The Spoiled Heart is a magnificent novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heart Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and ...Show more
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
$35.00 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below. A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, cir ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
$24.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God's Time is an extraordinary novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning.