The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his own. It's a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. Told through the eyes of eight of those present at the barbecue, this acclaimed bestseller is an unflinching i ...Show more
Revenge: murder in three parts by S.L. Lim
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2021 Stella PrizeHighly Commended Fiction — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 'Before I go into my grave,' she says out loud, 'I will kill that man.'A brilliant new novel from the author of Real Differences. A family favour their son over their daughter. Shan attends universi ...Show more
I Give My Marriage A Year (TPB) by Holly Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
How far would you go to save your marriage? Lou and Josh have been together for 14 years. They share two kids, a mortgage, careers and plenty of history. Now, after a particularly fraught Christmas, Lou is ready to ask herself: is this marriage worth hanging on to? Every month for a year, Lou sets a dif ...Show more
Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
You will not recognise me, she thinks, when I find you. Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him – especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them ‘safe ...Show more
Mr Smith to You: A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. by Kerry Taylor
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Inspired by the true story of Bill Smith (1886-1975), who may have been Australia's first trans jockey. A moving, tender debut novel about identity, solitude and the human spirit. A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret. For most of his 76 years, Bill Smi ...Show more
Plains of Promise: An extraordinary novel from the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize by Alexis Wright
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella PrizeIn this brilliant novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the p ...Show more
Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An unsettling, brilliant novel about the truths and lies of mythology and history from the acclaimed author of The Slap. Isaac is a photographer in his mid-30, travelling through Europe. It is the post-Cold War Europe of a united currency, illegal immigration and of a globalised homogenous culture. In h ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more
Maurice Guest - Text Classics by Henry Handel Richardson
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Henry Handel Richardson's debut, published in London in 1908, is set in the music scene of turn-of-the-century Leipzig, a cosmopolitan centre for the arts drawing students from around the world - among them Maurice Guest, a young Englishman, who falls helplessly in love with an Australian woman, Louise ...Show more
One Day We're All Going to Die by Elise Esther Hearst
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A compelling, immersive, utterly absorbing read. Hearst's arrival on the literary scene is a triumphal one. I cannot wait to see what she writes next.' Dr Lee Kofman. Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming-of-age novel about a 27-year-old sin ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In one terrible moment Jaxie Clackton's life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There's just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only ...Show more
My Brilliant Career: Text Classics by Miles Franklin
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn - a real yarn. Oh!" Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tal ...Show more