The Earth Does Not Get Fat by Julia Prendergast
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
"A tale of dark family secrets, yet also a tale imbued with awe and wonder at life's mysteries. Prendergast vests her traumatised characters with dignity, and writes them with deep affection and understanding. Poetic, yet earthed, driven by a raw intensity, this impressive debut novel burns with love."- ...Show more
The Turning by Tim Winton
$46.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Tim Winton's characters are people we're familiar with - their struggles and small triumphs are our own. Here they change in ways that are sometimes vast, sometimes indistinct, but every story illuminates things we take for granted. Even as some of these lives turn from expansive hope to defeated middle ...Show more
1788: Text Classics by Watkin Tench
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Literature | Series: Text Classics
"I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius." In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Sydney Cove with the First Fleet. This curious young captain of the marines was a natural storyteller ...Show more
2028... and Australia has gone to hell in a handbasket by Ken Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong? The ...Show more
7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An astonishingly inventive, playful, funny, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most exciting new literary voices. Margaret Bryce, deceased mother of twins, has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. These days - they're not exactly days - she visits her daughter Eva in Madri ...Show more
A Distant Journey by Di Morrissey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Celebrating 25 years as Australia's Favourite Storyteller, Di Morrissey's latest novel is a tribute to the real Australia she knows so well.
A Distant Journey by Di Morrissey
$19.98 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Celebrating 25 years as Australia's favourite storyteller with the new novel Arcadia out soon. Di Morrissey's, A Distant Journey is a tribute to the real Australia she knows so well.In 1962 Cindy drops out of college to impulsively marry Australian grazier Murray Parnell, moving from the glamorous world ...Show more
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
The Father is Martin Dean.He taught his son always to make up his mind, and then change it. An impossible, brilliant, restless man, he just wanted the world to listen to him - and the trouble started when the world did.The Uncle is Terry Dean.As a boy, Terry was the local sporting hero. As a man, he bec ...Show more
A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. 'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an Ameri ...Show more
A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Elsie Gormley falls and is forced to leave her Brisbane home of 62 years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, with their new life - new house, new city, new baby. Lucy and her husband Ben struggle to navigate their transformation from adventurous lovers to new parents and both seek to smooth the roug ...Show more