Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neigh ...Show more
Naked Ambition by Robert Gott
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'You're a politician, a public figure. What on earth were you thinking?' Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White - a painting she intends to enter in this year's Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of ...Show more
Gould's Book Of Fish by Richard Flanagan
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'A work of pure brilliance', Seattle TimesFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning novel.Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white ...Show more
The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Amanda Lohrey
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating ...Show more
Glass Houses: A Novel by Anne Coombs
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Beloved author Anne Coombs' final novel - a gentle satire with a rapier edge that captures the joys and hypocrisies of a mid-nineties version of the Australian bourgeouise. Raymond causes a stir in country town Glaston when he buys Glastonbridge, a house of vast, neo-Gothic fantasy abandoned for decade ...Show more
Homecoming by Kate Morton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of ...Show more
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner, Prize for Fiction, The 2018 Victorian Premier''s Literary Awards ''Melanie Cheng is an astonishingly deft and incisive writer. With economy and elegance, she creates a dazzling mosaic of contemporary life, of how we live now. Hers is a compelling new voice in Australian literature.'' Christos T ...Show more
The Next Girl by Pip Drysdale
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Promising Young Woman meets High Fidelity in the dark and twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of The Sunday Girl, The Strangers We Know and The Paris Affair. A bad day at work. A drunken night. A rogue Instagram follow. That's all it takes to ruin a life ... The question is, whose life will ...Show more
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost. Desperate to ig ...Show more
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them.When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them recon ...Show more
An Ordinary Ecstasy by Luke Carman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
A new collection of stories by the award-winning author of An Elegant Young Man and Intimate Antipathies.The seven stories that make up An Ordinary Ecstasy explore the lives of people whose days are awash with enigma, wonder, and epiphany: a musician who rides the winding railway up into the mountains a ...Show more
Painting the Light by Ned Manning
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Nell Hope’s dreams of becoming an artist are dashed when Hitler invades Poland. She is ordered to return home to Australia, from Paris, by her grazier father and swaps her paint brush for riding boots. Young farmer Alec Murray is committed to fight the impending Nazi threat and enlists in the army. Nell ...Show more