The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second W ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Consolation (#3 Paul Hirschhausen) by Garry Disher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Hirsch Ser.
In Consolation, Tiverton’s only police officer Constable Paul Hirschhausen is dealing with a snowdropper. Someone is stealing women’s underwear, and Hirsch knows how that kind of crime can escalate. Then two calls come in: a teacher who thinks a child may be in danger at home. A father on the rampage ov ...Show more
The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An extraordinary debut, a story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ... In Berlin, who can you trust? A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ... It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husba ...Show more
Providence by Max Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon a brilliant work of science fiction that tells the intimate tale of four people facing their most desperate hour--alone, together, at the edge of the universe. The video changed everything. Before that, we could believe that we were safe. Spec ...Show more
Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of ...Show more
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: nfine
Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise her voice in anger. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two ...Show more
The Inheritors by Hannelore Cayre
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
She had been dead now for four days and I had become rich. Unimaginably rich. Blanche de Rigny has always considered herself the black sheep of the family. And a black sheep on crutches at that. But it turns out her family tree has branches she didn't even know existed. And many of them are rotten to th ...Show more
The River Home by Hannah Richell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The river can take you home. But the river can also drag you under...'It's something she learned years ago - the hard way - and that she knows she will never forget: even the sweetest fruit will fall and rot into the earth, eventually. No matter how deep you bury the pain, the bones of it will rise up t ...Show more
Loner by Georgina Young
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Loner is a book about drifting. About having been good at school and seemingly destined for great things but, once thrust into the structureless maelstrom of the adult world, simply... stalling. Stalling, and waiting, and doing not much of anything except feeling a lot of things. And then maybe watching ...Show more
The Question of Love by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Richard and Freya are, on the surface, a perfect couple. He has a thriving architectural practice; she plays the violin like an angel. They live in a beautiful home. They seem respectful and caring of one another. They should be happier than they are. Adapting the musical 'theme-and-variations' structur ...Show more
The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies run low, panic sets in and still no help arrives. To protect her daughter, Isobel must take drastic action. THE GLAD SHOUT is an extraordinary novel of rare depth and textu ...Show more