The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsiderati ...Show more
Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: very good
Darnmoor, The Gateway to Happiness. The sign taunts a fool into feeling some sense of achievement, some kind of end- that you have reached a destination in the very least. Yet as the sign states, Darnmoor is merely a gateway, a waypoint on the road to where you really want to be. Darnmoor is the home of ...Show more
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: Adult
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of PAST THE SHALLOWS and WHEN THE NIGHT COMES. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a ma ...Show more
Life after Truth by Ceridwen Dovey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they've wasted their youthful opportunities. Jules, already a famous actor when she arrived on campus, is changing in mysterious ways but won't share what is ...Show more
Lucky's by Andrew Pippos
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Lucky's is a story of family. It is also about a man called Lucky. His restaurant chain. A fire that changed everything. A New Yorker article which might save a career. The mystery of a missing father. An impostor who got the girl. An unthinkable tragedy. A roll of the dice. And a story of love, lost, s ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, ...Show more
It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake by Claire Christian
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
A quirky, feel-good romantic comedy about creating the life you want. Noni didn't expect to be starting over again at the age of thirty-six. But eighteen months after the end of her long-term relationship, she knows it's time to find out what's next. While an encounter with a sexy blonde firefighter is ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pit ...Show more
Infinite Splendours by Sofie Laguna
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
A bold new literary novel from the author of the award-winning The Eye of the Sheep and The Choke. Lawrence Loman is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his mother and younger brother, and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is ten, a ...Show more
The Dressmaker's Secret (TPB) by Rosalie Ham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Rosalie Ham's dressmaker returns in the sequel to the beloved #1 bestseller and the box office sensation, The Dressmaker. It is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and celebrations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is, however, working for a pittanc ...Show more
Our Shadows by Gail Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Our Shadows is a story about three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Nell and Frances are sisters who are close enough in age to be mistaken for twins. ...Show more