The White Girl by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. Raising her granddaughter Sissy on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their communities. When a new policeman arrives in town d ...Show more
The Young Desire It - Text Classics by Kenneth Mackenzie
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private pa ...Show more
The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she k ...Show more
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress ...Show more
Short Stories - From a Murder Mystery, to a Man Who Never Was by Derryn Hinch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Short Stories: and now for something completely different, as they once said in a famous film. Over more than 45 years Derryn Hinch has written 19 books from novels to autobiographies; Scrabble, Wordle, and several diet and health books. But he had never tried anything like this. A compendium of short s ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2016 by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In The Best Australian Stories 2016, Charlotte Wood, author of The Natural Way of Things (winner of the 2016 Stella Prize, and the 2016 Indie Book of the Year), presents twenty pieces of outstanding short fiction. Featuring the work of exciting new voices alongside stories by established favourites, thi ...Show more
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
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
The Mummy Bloggers by Holly Wainwright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Is everything you see online as shiny as it seems? Do people really live in mess-free kitchens with picture-perfect children or is everything not quite as it seems? Meet Elle Campbell. She's the glossy, lycra clad Mum with washboard abs and a 10-year plan. Abi Black has quit sugar, moved to the country ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...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 Weekend by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"A compelling and vivid look at the friendships we make as women. Honest, unsettling and, like all good literature, had me asking questions about life and myself." Heather Rose, austhor of The Museum of Modern Love, winner of the 2017 Stella Prize. People went on about death bringing friends together, b ...Show more