Burn by Melanie Saward
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Growing up in small-town Tasmania, Andrew struggled at home, at school, at everything. The only thing that distracted or excited him was starting little fires. Flames boosted his morale and purified his thoughts, and they were the only thing in his life he could control. Until one day things got out of ...Show more
Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day -- in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up -- she doesn't know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed. On ...Show more
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Another rich and sumptuously told tale based on the life of artist Dorothea Graff, from award-winning and bestselling author of The Birdman's Wife and The Bee and the Orange Tree, Melissa Ashley. Set in 1700s Amsterdam and the wilds of the South American jungle, it charts the creation of one of the mos ...Show more
For Everything a Time by Mark McAvaney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
For everything there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens. After thirteen years it’s time for Mac to return home to face a past he’s been running from. A past his best friend Dave has been unable to escape. It was 1990, their final year of school and with an INXS ...Show more
Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Prize WINNER (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
$22.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
"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
Ordinary Human Love by Melissa Goode
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The end of the affair is just the beginning. Mardi McKee, prodigal daughter, arrives at her father's home in Lithgow, Australia, after drifting overseas for eighteen months. Her previous life is a memory. Her mother has died, she is divorced and is estranged from her former lover, Ian. Mardi had left I ...Show more
Songs for the Dead and the Living by Sara M Saleh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house above a paint shop on the outskirts of Beirut, with her large, chaotic, loving family. But she soon learns that as Palestinian refugees, her family's life in Lebanon is precarious. Songs for the Dead and the Living is a comingof-age ta ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$34.99 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 starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees, hidden by the foliage and rows of towering palm ...Show more
The Madwoman's Coat by Ian Reid
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
The Madwoman's Coat, Ian Reid's fifth historical novel, is set In England and Western Australia during the late 19th century. It is a story of love and grief, artistry and insanity, acts of sudden transgression and moments of quiet contemplation.1897: Isabella Trent is found murdered in an Australian as ...Show more