A Treacherous Country (Winner 2020 Australian Vogel's Literary Award) by K. M. Kruimink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL'S LITERARY AWARD There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's de ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. A girl comes of age against the knife.' So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white m ...Show more
Loner by Georgina Young
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Loner is a book about drifting. About having been good at school and seemingly destined for great things but, once thrust into the structureless maelstrom of the adult world, simply... stalling. Stalling, and waiting, and doing not much of anything except feeling a lot of things. And then maybe watching ...Show more
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Must a girl always be a part?How can she become a whole?In the late 1970s, in the forgotten outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. A sinister new man has joined the family. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block.The family is unde ...Show more
Bluebird by Malcolm Knox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones' - The Guardian A stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian beachside suburb. A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prim ...Show more
Collisions: Fictions Of The Future:An Anthology Of Australian Writers OfColour by Leah Jing McIntosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This collection of short stories showcases some of the best work that Australian literature has to offer in this new decade. Featuring work from both emerging and established writers of colour, the stories in Collisions transcend genre and experiment with style. They are necessary reading for everybody ...Show more
Fortune Cookie by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord. With no family or connections, ...Show more
Fishing For Stars by Bryce Courtenay
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Nick Duncan is a semi-retired, wealthy shipping magnate who lives in idyllic Beautiful Bay, Vanuatu, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beguiling Eurasian true love, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing flashbacks to the Second Worl ...Show more
Islands by Peggy Frew
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each other. Some of us wailed and shouted; some of us barely made a sound. None of us was l ...Show more
Corporal Hitler's Pistol by Tom Keneally
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
How did Corporal Hitler's Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon that killed an IRA turncoat in Kempsey, New South Wales, in 1933? When an affluent Kempsey matron spots a young Aboriginal boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to her husband, not only does she scream for divorce, attempt ...Show more
New Australian Fiction 2022: A New Collection of Short Fiction From Kill Your Darlings by Suzy Garcia (Series edited by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
New Australian Fiction 2022 is Kill Your Darlings’ fourth annual collection of short fiction and features some of Australia’s best-loved writers alongside exciting new voices. PRAISE FOR NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION 2022: ‘Inventive, poignant, and always captivating, this is a beautifully curated collection ...Show more