Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia's national character, especially in its fondness for tall stories and questionable history. As this charming scoundrel traverses the continent and a century's wor ...Show more
Gotland by Fiona Capp
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Shy and idealistic, Esther Chatwin is Australia's reluctant First Lady. She longs to return to the anonymity of her old life. But her husband's sudden political success has turned the media spotlight on her and her only escape is to Gotland, the fabled island in the Baltic Sea that she loves. A special ...Show more
Estuary by Sam Bunny
$25.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Mac is born in Melbourne during the war in Vietnam. Living with his adoptive parents, Uncle & Miela, he experienced the reverberations of conflict. In time, he meets Uluru, and they move to Sri Lanka where together, they realise that they can put the past behind. Estuary is a book about legacy a ...Show more
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"Kelly Rimmer has outdone herself. I thought that Before I Let You Go was one of the best novels I had ever read...If you only have time to read one book this year The Things We Cannot Say should be that book. Keep tissues handy."--Fresh Fiction "Fans of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls will adore Th ...Show more
A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Adam's life has been ruined by war . . . A veteran of the Iraq conflict who has suffered such extensive bodily trauma that he can only really survive by means of a mechanical skeleton.Marianna's has been ruined by men . . . A woman who has had to flee the country after her husband lied to the wrong peop ...Show more
Belomor by Nicolas Rothwell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present. Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet-where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere. A man seeks out the father figure ...Show more
Clade by James Bradley (Performed by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Compelling, challenging and resilient, over ten beautifully contained chapters, Cladecanvasses three generations from the very near future to late this century. Central to the novel is the family of Adam, a scientist, and his wife Ellie, an artist. Cladeopens with them wanting a child and Adam in a quan ...Show more
Taboo by Kim Scott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin AwardFrom Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred ye ...Show more
Taboo by Kim Scott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who ...Show more
Man Out of Time by Stephanie Bishop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Stella's father, Leon, disappears in September 2001, the police knock at her door. She baulks at their questions, not sure how to answer. 'What if I just write it down for you.' One summer, a long time ago, Stella sat watching her father cry while the sky clouded over. He had tried to make amends: ...Show more
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionar ...Show more
Tourmaline: Text Classics by Randolph Stow
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
There is no stretch of land on earth more ancient than this. And so it is blunt and red and barren, littered with the fragments of broken mountains, flat, waterless. Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic diviner Michael ...Show more