Over This Backbone by Ya Reeves
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
I shake my head - it's only day one.That wind is hot. I can feel the salt drying and gluing my eyebrows and lashes and gripping to the fine hairs on my cheeks. Shoulders, already knotted, ache. Blisters bubble their way to the surface, and I know I should have stopped for them but I'm single-minded to t ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther ...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
Bittersweet by Colleen McCullough
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: Adult
Do bonds between sisters ever break? Edda, Grace, Tufts and Kitty didn't think so. The four Latimer sisters, famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit and ambition, have always been close; always happy. But then they left home to train as nurses, swapping the feather beds of their father's ...Show more
You Need to Know by Nicola Moriarty
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From the bestselling author of The Ex and Those Other Women comes a thrilling family drama about the secrets we keep, the lies we tell and the truths that won't stay hidden. Everybody's hiding something ... Jill, her three sons, their wives and children are driving in convoy on Christmas Eve. But some ...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 Visitors by Jane Harrison
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imaging of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. On a steamy, hot day in January 1788, seven Aboriginal men, Elder statesmen representing the nearby clans, gather at Warrane. Several newly arrived ...Show more
The Diplomat by Chris Womersley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
1991. Fresh out of detox and five years after his involvement in the theft of Picasso's masterpiece The Weeping Woman from the NGV, Edward Degraves - art forger and drug addict - returns to Melbourne for a new start. All he needs to do is make one last visit to The Diplomat, a seedy motel renowned for i ...Show more
Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.In the titular story, a cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn't have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coincid ...Show more
Tirra Lirra By the River by Jessica Anderson
$22.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
Liza used to say that she saw her past life as a string of roughly-graded balls, and so did Hilda have a linear conception of hers, thinking of it as a track with detours. But for some years now I have likened mine to a globe suspended in my head, and ever since the shocking realisation that waste is ir ...Show more
Everyone and Everything by Nadine J. Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A dazzling debut full of wry wisdom by one of Australia's most exciting emerging novelists, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh inappropriately, cry unexpectedly and reach out to those you love. When Yael Silver's world comes crashing down, she looks to the past for answers and finds solace in ...Show more
Black Sheep by Judy Nunn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Judy Nunn's new blockbuster is a sweeping historical novel about a prosperous sheep-farming family and the enigmatic young man with a dark past they let into their lives . . .Black sheep - there's one in every family . . .Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determined to be a gun shearer like his f ...Show more