Simpson Returns: A Novella by Wayne Macauley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Ninety years after they were thought to have died heroically in the Great War, the stretcher-bearer Simpson and his donkey journey through country Victoria, performing minor miracles and surviving on offerings left at war memorials. They are making their twenty-ninth, and perhaps final, attempt to find ...Show more
The Burnt Country by Joy Rhoades
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: woolgrowers companion
Pre-read / Used. Good condition The stunning new novel from the author of The Woolgrower's Companion, whom the Australian Women's Weekly described as 'a wonderful new voice in literary rural fiction'. A scandalous secret. A deadly fire. An agonizing choice. Australia 1948. As a young woman running A ...Show more
Love and Other Battles by Tess Woods
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Three generations of women. Three heartbreaking choices. One unforgettable story. 1969: Free-spirited hippie Jess James has no intention of falling for a soldier ... but perhaps some things are not in our power to stop. 1989: Jess's daughter, Jamie, dreams of a simple life - marriage, children, stabili ...Show more
The Breeding Season by Amanda Niehaus
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
A breathtaking debut that explores love, science, loss and the so-called feminine ideal
Khaki Town by Judy Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Khaki Town, Judy Nunn's exciting new novel, is inspired by a true wartime story that has remained a well-kept secret for over seventy years. It seems to have happened overnight, Val thought . How extraordinary. We've become a khaki town. It's March 1942. Singapore has fallen. Darwin has been bombed. A ...Show more
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2020. The stunningly powerful new novel from the author of The Slap. 'They kill us, they crucify us, they throw us to beasts in the arena, they sew our lips together and watch us starve. They bugger children in front of their mothers and ...Show more
Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
It is 1941. Eighteen-year-old Ruby leaves behind the family farm, her serious mother and roguish father, and heads for Adelaide. After a brief courtship, she enters into a hasty marriage with a soldier about to go to war - who returns a changed man. In this absorbing novel, Anna Goldsworthy recreates th ...Show more
The Rain Heron (The Age Book of the Year 2021) by Robbie Arnott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading--and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission. As their lives entw ...Show more
The Question of Love by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
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
Islands by Peggy Frew
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each other. Some of us wailed and shouted; some of us barely made a sound. None of us was l ...Show more
The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she k ...Show more
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father''s ...Show more