Ransom by David Malouf
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclu ...Show more
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
The Marmalade Files by Steve Lewis; Chris Uhlmann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: Secret City Ser.
Soon to be a major TV series from the team behind The Slap A sticky scandal. A political jam. An imaginative romp through the dark underbelly of politics by two veteran Canberra insiders. *The Marmalade Files are documents that allegedly exist within the bowels of Foreign Affairs & Trade that have b ...Show more
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good - near fine
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. As Harry watches the birds, his next doo ...Show more
Beneath the Shadows by Sara Foster
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the isolated North Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. However, a week later, Adam vanishes, abandoning their baby daughter on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village of Roseby. She is desperate for an ...Show more
The Cartographer (Prize winner Indie s/l 2013) by Peter Twohig
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An amazingly bold, inventive and enchanting debut. Set in the 1950s, a 10-year-old boy witnesses a murder when he is spying through a window of a strange house. In the following weeks he comes to map out all the significant adventures he has in the labyrinthine city trying to make sure he doesn't cross ...Show more
Sisters Of Mercy by Caroline Overington
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Sisters of Mercy by Caroline Overington is the haunting story of two sisters - one has vanished, the other is behind bars...Snow Delaney was born a generation and a world away from her sister, Agnes. Until recently, neither even knew of the other's existence. They came together only for the reading of t ...Show more
A Stranger in My Street by Deborah Burrows
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
It's January 1943. Australia is at war and Perth is buzzing. US troops have permanently docked in the city in what local men refer to bitterly as the 'American occupation', and Perth women are having the time of their lives. The Americans have money, accents like movie stars, smart tailored uniforms and ...Show more
Taking a Chance by Deborah Burrows
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Set in Perth during the Second World War. Nell is an Australian journo, and quite the fashionable lady, and Johnny is a captain with the American Press Corps who has a bit of a shady romantic past. Johnny's ex-lover, Lena Mitrovic, has been convicted of the murder of caddish artist Rick Henzell. Convinc ...Show more
Award Winning Australian Writing 2013 by Adolfo Aranjuez
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
The sixth edition of Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. Much like the 2012 anthology, this year's collection will feature over fifty writers and competitions. It will also proudly ...Show more
Eyrie by Tim Winton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled ...Show more
Elianne by Judy Nunn
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
In 1881 'Big Jim' Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour. The massive estate becomes a self-sufficient fortress, a cane-co ...Show more