Australian Love Stories (Short Stories) by Cate Kennedy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
There are imaginary lovers, unattainable lovers, star-crossed lovers and predestined lovers. There is straight love, same sex love and some very curious love. And Love's attendants - cupid, lust, obsession, and betrayal - dance through this volume that contributes to the growing tradition of Australian ...Show more
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation.....This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and characters that will never let you go...'...there is ...Show more
Best Australian Stories 2014 by Amanda Lohrey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
In The Best Australian Stories 2014, Patrick White Award - winning author Amanda Lohrey selects the outstanding short fiction of the year. Sometimes fantastical, sometimes raw, and always a 'shot of adrenaline to the mind and heart', this collection features exciting new voices alongside the established ...Show more
Volcano Street by David Rain
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Pre-read / Used. Fair condition. Slight foxing on pages "What would Germaine do?' This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate their way through the twists and turns that life brings. Such as the sectioning of their mother Karen Jane. Marlo puts her faith in her hero, Germai ...Show more
Summer's Gone by Charles Hall
$24.00 AUD
Category: Australian author
"Helen died on the day Sgt. Pepper's went on sale..." This devastatingly honest novel follows the story's protagonist, Nick, as he revisits a steamy and complicated summer of love years after its tragic end. The story of Summer's Gone begins when Nick is given a banjo that leads him to form a folk band ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Good. Slight yellowing/foxing on edges of pages. "A Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century" (Prism Magazine), Wood's dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian ...Show more
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a ...Show more
Useful by Debra Oswald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Sullivan Moss is useless. Once a charming underachiever, he's now so hopeless that he even fails his attempt to end it all. Waking up in hospital after falling the wrong way on a rooftop, he comes to a decision. After a life of regrets, Sully wants to do one useful thing. If he can't make something of h ...Show more
The Woman Next Door by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"The doyenne of women's fiction" West Australian Over the years, the residents of Emerald Street have become more than just neighbours, they have built lasting friendships over a drink and chat on their back verandahs. Now a new chapter begins with the children having left home. Helen and Dennis have mo ...Show more
Man in the Corner by Nathan Besser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
If you let decisions happen to you, rather than making decisions, what will happen to you? Can you become someone else without the world noticing? When David's wife confesses that she used to be a prostitute, the revelation doesn't disturb him, he considers it simply an error of youth. But the following ...Show more
A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. 'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an Ameri ...Show more
Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the use of his legs, if he hasn't died to the part of his heart that understands such things, then he should go for a gallop. At the very least he should stand at the road by the river ...Show more