Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From the author of the no.1 New York Times bestselling novel The Book Thief."An amazing talent in Australian literature" Sunday TelegraphLet me tell you about our brother.The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay.Everything happened to him.We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other ...Show more
The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett is a darkly humorous book about one woman's post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her. It wasn't just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett's life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it. One day ...Show more
The Last Dingo Summer (#8 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: The Matilda Saga
A killer lurks behind the kindness of the Gibber's Creek community. Under the burnt timber of the church, the police have found the body of Merv Ignatious, the man who so viciously attacked Jed Kelly when she was fifteen, and tried to kill her and her unborn child in last year's bushfire. And also in th ...Show more
Being Black 'n Chicken, and Chips by Matt Okine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: near fine
A heartbreaking and often hilarious story about trying to grow up when everything is falling apart from one of Australia's leading comic talents. Mike Amon is a regular teenager. All he wants is to fit in. He wants to sit at the cool bench. He wants to be a star athlete. He wants his first kiss.
The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a ...Show more
The Trespassers by Meg Mundell
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Winner of the Davitt Award for Adult Crime 2020 Fleeing their pandemic-stricken homelands, a shipload of migrant workers departs the UK, dreaming of a fresh start in prosperous Australia. For nine-year-old Cleary Sullivan, deaf for three years, the journey promises adventure and new friendships; for ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home.' Perth, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Frank, survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. In ...Show more
Red Dog by Louis De Bernieres
$21.99 AUD
$24.95 (11% off)
Category: Australian author
In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast h ...Show more
The Night Letters by Denise Leith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
For five years, Australian doctor Sofia Raso has lived in Kabul's vibrant Shaahir Square, working with Dr Jabril Aziz to support the local women. She knows that living peacefully in Kabul requires following two simple rules: keep a low profile; and keep out of local affairs. Yet when threatening nigh ...Show more
So Many Beats of the Heart: Evie Shine is an expert on marriage, so why didn't she see this coming? by Carrie Cox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Warm, fresh, whole-hearted, and very very funny An utterly joyous, charming, nourishing read. - Brooke Davis Abundant wit, a keen instinct for the perfect detail and a whole lot of heart. - Nick Earls I adored Evie Shine and this warm, funny novel, filled with nuggets of wisdom about that most fasc ...Show more
Home and Other Hiding Places by Jack Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
When eight-year-old Fin and his mum Lindy travel to spend Christmas with his Gran in Sydney, Fin assumes they’ll return to their isolated country property – the only home he’s ever known. But he soon discovers that this large and crumbling riverside house, surrounded by bush and unwelcoming neighbours, ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment f ...Show more