The Long Take by Robin Robertson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John Banville, GuardianA noir narrative written with the intensity a ...Show more
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Enthralling" --Boston Globe "Extraordinary" --Seattle Times "A rip-roaring tale" --Washington Post FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE and THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling adventure story, about a boy who rises ...Show more
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Reviewed by Bookoccino owner, Raymond Bonner. Unforgettable characters, from the streets of San Francisco to inside women’s prisons. As realistic as non-fiction; as well written as the most captivating fiction. Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville ...Show more
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive. Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way fr ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize "For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her eve ...Show more
Taboo by Kim Scott
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From the two-times winner of the Miles Franklin AwardFrom Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred ye ...Show more
No More Boats [Miles Franklin 2018 Shortlist] by Felicity Castagna
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
"New novel by Felicity Castagna, whose previous book, The Incredible Here and Now, won the 2015 Prime Ministers Award for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The subject is very topical. No More Boats tackles the fear of refugees head on, portraying th ...Show more
Some Tests by Wayne Macauley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
It begins with the normally healthy Beth--aged-care worker, wife of David, mother of Lettie and Em--feeling vaguely off-colour. A locum sends her to Dr Yi for some tests. ''There are a few things here that aren''t quite right,'' says Dr Yi, ''and sometimes it is these little wrongnesses that can lead us ...Show more
The Last Garden by Eva Hornung
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
''Astonishing...A strange, sombre, sobering triumph.'' Sydney Morning Herald The settlement of Wahrheit, founded in exile to await the return of the Messiah, has been waiting longer than expected. Pastor Helfgott has begun to feel the subtle fraying of the community''s faith. Then Matthias Orion shoot ...Show more
The Restorer by Michael Sala
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
After a year apart, Maryanne returns to her husband, Roy, bringing their eight-year-old son Daniel and teenage daughter Freya with her. The family move from Sydney to Newcastle, where Roy has bought a derelict house on the coast.As Roy painstakingly patches the holes in the floorboards and plasters over ...Show more
Storyland by Catherine McKinnon
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'This land is a forever land. The clock ticks to a different time.'Set on the banks of Lake Illawarra and spanning four centuries, Storyland is a remarkable and moving novel about who we are and our connection to this land.Telling the stories of five very different people, Storyland weaves together a co ...Show more
From the Wreck by Jane Rawson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'It's hard to find the right words to praise this novel. I think we need a whole new critical vocabulary to be invented. Rawson recreates a vanished historical world with utterly convincing characters as well as inhabits the mind of a cephalopod alien and make us feel, in both cases, yes, that's exactly ...Show more