The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'I remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their special talents for mimicry. They steal the songs from others, you said. I want to ask you this: how were our own songs stolen from us, the notes dispersed, while our faces were turned away?'Berlin, 1936. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologi ...Show more
The Birdman's Wife by Melissa Ashley
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the sublime beauty of birds the world had never seen before. But her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould. The Birdman's Wife at last gives voice to a passionate and adventurous spirit who was so much more than the woman behind the ma ...Show more
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
In 1787 Lieutenant Daniel Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other s ...Show more
The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Sitting in a New York park, an old man holds a book and tries to accept that his contribution to the future is over. Instead, he remembers a youthful yearning for open horizons, for Australia, a yearning he now knows inspired his life as a writer. Instinctively he picks up his pen and starts at the begi ...Show more
Real Differences by S. L. Lim
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This is a story of a friendship so connected that without it one is not whole but lost.Middle-class, clever and white, Nick is a child of privilege while his best friend Andie is the daughter of Indo-Chinese refugees. Despite their very different backgrounds, they share a conviction they can change the ...Show more
No Freedom for the Heart by E. M. Liz Miller
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's the 1980's, and two families, the Costas and the Delaneys find themselves grappling the onslaught of life in a Melbourne suburb. Lost relationships, lost innocence and lost beauty, ubiquitous in a world where all that is precious can disappear in a moment. Two families find themselves intertwined ...Show more
Wedding Puzzle by Sallie Muirden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On the morning of her wedding, 24-year-old Beth Shaw drives down the peninsula to the Portsea Hotel. She is uneasy and confused because she has just learnt something devastating about her fiancé, Jordan, that completely changes her view of him. As Beth's old schoolmates and her relatives arrive for the ...Show more
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
$21.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this" (The Sunday Times, London): An award-winning debut novel from a rising star in Australia--a hauntingly beautiful story about the bond of brotherhood and the fragility of youth. Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coas ...Show more
Machines for Feeling by Mireille Juchau
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Rien and Mark leave St Mary’s Home for Children and start a tentative new life together. While Mark dreams of machines to repair their fractured world, Rien writes stories to help her recover the missing events of her past. When their friend Dog Boy escapes from St Mary’s, he embarks on a journey that ...Show more
The Unmourned (Monsarrat #2) by Meg Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: The Monsarrat Series
Not all murder victims are mourned, but the perpetrator must always be punished ...Robert Church, Superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, takes full advantage of his position. First, there are the opportunities to siphon off supplies and sell them. And the Factory also provides an excellent fro ...Show more
Two Old Men Dying by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Pre-read / Used. Very Good condition. Learned Man is the child of humankind as we know it; of those who are thought to have travelled from the Rift Valley in Africa and to ancient Australia. Shelby Apple is an acclaimed documentary-maker. After making films about Learned Man?s discovery, in Vietnam ...Show more
Year of the Orphan by Daniel Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'There were a heat. Air hotter'n blud. She felt it bakin her skin as she moved. There weren't nothin certain but one thing i- the Reckoner were coming.' Outback Australia. 500 years from now. A girl races across the desert pursued by the reckoner, scavenged spoils held close. In a blasted landscape of a ...Show more