The Claimant by Janette Turner Hospital
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'So then, here it is. The unadorned un-self-flattering gospel, the never-before-told story our intricately intertwined lives ...Listen: I know things that no one else knows. Trust me. ' Manhattan, 1996: the trial of the Vanderbilt claimant is finally coming to an end. The case - long, complex, riven wit ...Show more
Vanishing by Gerard Woodward
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the story of Kenneth Brill, a naive boy and equally naive young man, growing up on a farm outside London. His theatrical father is a figure of extremes: he has lost a fortune by investing in prosthetic limbs for a war that happened too late, has killed his dwarfish music hall partner in a knife ...Show more
N by John A. Scott
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The accidental death of MP Norman Cole precipitates a hung parliament allowing a core of extreme right-wing politicians to seize power. Telford, a high-ranking but unworldly public servant, is approached by Cole's wife who believes her husband was murdered and asks him to investigate on her behalf. The ...Show more
Meatloaf in Manhattan by Robert Power
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'As deviously weighty as a good pop song.' - Anson Cameron, author of Stealing Picasso, Nice Shootin', Cowboy and Silences Long Gone. In these sixteen tales, Robert Power captures the joys and frailties of seemingly ordinary lives with extraordinary perception and wit. The stories take us from a Manhatt ...Show more
The Return by Silvia Kwon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
War ends and the world changes, as it always does. The enemy are no longer the enemy just people living their lives. But hate is hard to extinguish. The scars of war are not always visible, and they don't always fade. They haven't for Merna Gibson and they definitely haven't for her husband, Frank. He w ...Show more
The Tea Chest by Josephine Moon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'I loved it - a perfect blend of sweet and spice.' Jenny Colgan Kate Fullerton, talented tea designer and now co-owner of The Tea Chest, could never have imagined that she'd be flying from Brisbane to London, risking her young family's future, to save the business she loves from the woman who wants to s ...Show more
The Yellow Papers by Dominique Wilson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
It's 1872 and China - still bruised from its defeat in the two Opium Wars - sends a group of boys, including seven-year-old Chen Mu, to America to study and bring back the secrets of the West. But nine years on Chen Mu becomes a fugitive and flees to Umberumberka, a mining town in outback Australia. He ...Show more
Cicada by Moira McKinnon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A stunning novel of terror, love and survival in the greatest wilderness on earth. A lyrical, heartbreaking epic debut.An isolated property in the middle of Western Australia, just after the Great War. An English heiress has just given birth and unleashed hell. Weakened and grieving, she realises her li ...Show more
The Voyage by Murray Bail
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe. How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna? Perhaps he should have t ...Show more
Kat Jumps the Shark by Melinda Houston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"Suddenly a dark blur dropped through her line of vision, followed by a thump behind the glass. Kat saw first the faces of the extras. Then Peru, the prettiest contestant, fixed in horror and disbelief. There was a high, thin, sustained scream. Finally Kat shifted her gaze to the street, where a body la ...Show more
Tree Palace by Craig Sherborne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"They tried Mansfield but it was freezing and snowed and people like them don't fit in because they don't look prosperous. One time near Yellingbo they found a church no one prayed in and they lived there and for three weeks had stained glass for windows...They got chased out and went to Shepparton but ...Show more
The Italians at Cleat's Corner Store by Jo Riccioni
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1949, the arrival of an Italian family sets tongues wagging in the village of Leyton, an English farming community still recovering from the war. For seventeen-year-old Connie, however, the newcomers provide a tantalising glimpse of the wider world - a world beyond the gossip and petty concerns trade ...Show more