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All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton, returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain overhead, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for gui ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: near fine
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, ...Show more
Eye of a Rook by Josephine Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
In 1860s London, Arthur sees his wife Emily suddenly struck down by a pain for which she can find no words, forced to endure harmful treatments and reliant on him for guidance. Meanwhile, in contemporary Perth, Alice, a writer, and her older husband, Duncan, find their marriage threatened as Alice inves ...Show more
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
What would you do if the secret police demanded you spy on a friend in order to protect your family? Three women confront the complexities of trust, friendship and motherhood under the rule of a dictator in this debut inspired by the author's own experiences in Iraq At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, ...Show more
Our Shadows by Gail Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Our Shadows is a story about three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Nell and Frances are sisters who are close enough in age to be mistaken for twins. ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Performance by Claire Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives' Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend 'Read it as soon as you possibly can' Emily Bitto, author of The Strays 'I read from start to finish almost without looking up' Clare Bowditch, author of Your Own Kind of Girl The false cold of the theatre m ...Show more
O by Steven Carroll
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'A woman writes a story for her married lover. Something she always thought of as a fairy tale. A fairy tale with a dark side, like the best of fairy tales...' Occupied France, 1943. France's most shameful hour. In these dark times, Dominique starts an illicit affair with a distinguished publisher, a m ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The mind can take you anywhere you want ...Show more
The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
You will not recognise me, she thinks, when I find you. Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him – especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them ‘safe ...Show more
Infinite Splendours by Sofie Laguna
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
A bold new literary novel from the author of the award-winning The Eye of the Sheep and The Choke. Lawrence Loman is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his mother and younger brother, and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is ten, a ...Show more
A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two. Jena Lin plays the violin. She was once a child prodigy and now uses sex to fill the void left by fame. She's struggling a little. Her professional life comprises rehearsals, concerts, auditions and r ...Show more