Utopian Man by Lisa Lang
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
It's the 1880s. Marvellous Melbourne is a lavish and raucous city where anything could happen. Eccentric entrepreneur Edward William Cole is building the sprawling Cole's Book Arcade and filling it with whatever amuses him, or supports his favourite causes: a giant squid, a brass band, monkeys, a black ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther ...Show more
The Wounded Sinner by Gus Henderson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Leonora – back to Jeanie's roots and family. Matthew's father, Archie, is dying and he spends three weeks out of four caring for him in The Wounded Sinner, his grand, decaying family home. Whilst Matthew is away, Jeanie stays and works as a teacher and looks after their five children. Their eldest, Jayl ...Show more
Candy by Luke Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Allen & Unwin Fiction
'There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy those were the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar...It's like you're cruising along in a beautiful car o ...Show more
The Map of William by Michael Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Western Australia, 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the north-west to map water sources in the Pilbara. Invited along, fifteen-year-old William embarks on the outback journey of a lifetime.At sea and on land, William will forge lasting friendships with his fellow travelle ...Show more
An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb by Louise Wolhuter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Jessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a certain quiet time and the start of a more complicated living. Winifred is a small town full of prejudices a ...Show more
Where I Slept by Libby Angel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A striking, lyrical work of autofiction that follows a struggling artist living on the margins in 1990s Melbourne. When he asks what kind of work I do, I tell him I am a poet.'Poetry will break your heart,' he says.'Or, perhaps it is the only thing that won't,' I say. In this startling work of autofic ...Show more
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. Th ...Show more
The Glass House by Brooke Dunnell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Relieved to take time out from her faltering marriage, Julia Lambett heads across the country to her hometown to help her father move into aged care. But moving an elderly man is easier said than done, especially when her father reveals that a guest has come to stay.Soon after her return, Julia bumps in ...Show more
Life After Ted by Rick Feneley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A tragic accident tests the strength of family ties. Ted McCall is a legend among Bondi lifesavers. When he is killed in a surfing accident, his death exposes long-held family secrets and sets in motion a series of revelations and betrayals. Only one thing is certain: Ted's death is a defining moment fo ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder (H/B) by Kate Grenville
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian author
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a po ...Show more
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. F ...Show more