The Queen's Apprenticeship by Tracy Ryan
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Two women from different worlds in Renaissance France cross paths in a way that changes both their lives.One is Marguerite de Navarre, a King's sister. Powerful, privileged and widely admired, Marguerite must nonetheless marry where she is told to, regardless of her feelings, and - despite the thrilling ...Show more
So Close to Home by Mick Cummins
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A tense, moving novel about a young man struggling with addiction and trauma from the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. For fans of Craig Silvey's Honeybee and Mark Brandi's Wimmera Eighteen-year-old Aaron is charismatic, resourceful and addicted to he ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
Twelve Steps to a Long and Fulfilling Death by Sarah Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead. Stacey was trying to live her best life, but now she’s dead. But why hasn't she passed on? Could it be her fatal car accident is actually murder? Detectives Ed Beaufontaine and Rose Garafino have a long list of suspects, chief amon ...Show more
Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane by Melissa Lucashenko
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it again.' Luna Lewis is white. But her friends aren't, nor are her brothers, nor her one-time Princess of Indonesia-finalist stepmother. After transforming from pudgy preteen to 'exotic' beauty, Luna reinvent ...Show more
Vanity Fierce by Aitken Graeme
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Graeme Aitken's last novel was fabulous...in fifty ways. This novel is fabulous in fifty different ways...bitchy, funny, camp, tender, vain, glamorous, capricious, seductive...like Sydney itself where this tale of the city is set. The ultimate comic novel of gay Sydney - Armistead Maupin meets Melrose ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
Depth of Field by Kirsty Iltners
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In photography, you don’t get to have it all. You are always making choices, always making sacrifices.To capture the light.Tom’s longest-standing commitment is his run-down house Mayfield, which hasn’t been the same since Adeline. He’s stuck in the past drowning his sorrows in too many bottles of wine a ...Show more
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'Eventful, atmospheric, deliciously complex' New York Times 'Elegant and highly accomplished . . . dangerously readable . . . If only all novels were this engaging and this perceptive about human nature' The Guardian'A literary potboiler about love, obsession, professional rivalry between intimates and ...Show more
Compassion: The sequel to Benevolence by Julie Janson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
‘You can’t enslave us all, Captain!’ I yelled into his face. ‘We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...’From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA) and the Barbara Jefferis Award shortlisted Benevolence, Compassion contin ...Show more
The Glass House: A Novel of Mental Health by Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A compelling, addictive novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine told with heart, humour and insight by Anne Buist and The Rosie Project's Graeme Simsion. Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. ...Show more