The Sunken Road by Garry Disher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
At the height of the Great Depression, with farmers walking off the land and the city's creeks lined with kerosene-tin shanties, a young mother is taken by a shark in the shallows at Henley Beach. Her grieving husband flees north with his baby son to the town of Pandowie, far from the treacherous ocean. ...Show more
The White Girl by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. Raising her granddaughter Sissy on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their communities. When a new policeman arrives in town d ...Show more
That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 by Kim Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance - those stiff movements, those jerking limbs - as if he'd learned it from their very own selves; but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together... Told ...Show more
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mist ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, and shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize, The Life to Come is a powerful novel that effortlessly blends sharp satire of the literary world with deeply compassionate portraits of lonely people and their strategies for survival.
HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy by Kathy Lette
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Ruby has always been the generous mediator among her friends, family and colleagues, which is why they have all turned up to celebrate her 50th birthday. But after a few too many glasses of champers, Ruby's speech doesn't exactly go to plan. Instead of delivering the witty and warm words her guests are ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
Birds of a Feather: Would you open your heart to fate? by Rhianna King
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A funny, utterly charming debut novel about forbidden romance, second chances and the upsides of spontaneity. For fans of Clare Fletcher, Jessica Dettman and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Beth doesn't feel like she belongs in her rambunctious, bohemian family. Apart from the special relationship ...Show more
The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Darkly funny family drama about transphobia, political identity and family dynamics. Perfect for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh and The Dinner by Herman Koch. Linda Taylor is livestreaming her glamourous life as an alternative health guru when she trips over in front of her f ...Show more
Tilda Is Visible: A novel about women, life and being seen by Jane Tara
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A gorgeous, witty and wise novel celebrating older women and what it takes to embrace ourselves as we age, from Better Reading's Jane Tara. 'Pitch-perfect'. Kathy Lette 'There aren't many original story ideas, but Jane Tara has pulled off the almost impossible feat of writing one. Tilda Is Visible is fr ...Show more
The Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Father is Martin Dean.He taught his son always to make up his mind, and then change it. An impossible, brilliant, restless man, he just wanted the world to listen to him - and the trouble started when the world did.The Uncle is Terry Dean.As a boy, Terry was the local sporting hero. As a man, he bec ...Show more