Octet by James Wieland
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
‘Michael O’Connell is dead!’ Spanning the week of his burial, from his obituary to the wake, eight characters whose lives – some intimately, some more obliquely – have intersected his, slowly open up the carefully constructed compartments of his very private, very financially successful, life, even ...Show more
City of Crows by Chris Womersley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
"Chris Womersley's haunting novel City of Crows will take you into a nightmare labyrinth where superstition rules and where it seems the Devil calls the tune." Weekend Australian France, 1673. Desperate to save herself and her only surviving child from an outbreak of plague, the widow Charlotte Picot fl ...Show more
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature | Series: African Collection
First with your head and then with your heart.... So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, it is a piece of advice he will carry with him throughout his life. Born in a South Africa divided by ra ...Show more
Flames by Robbie Arnott
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
"A strange and joyous marvel" Richard FlanaganFor readers of Jennifer Egan, Evie Wyld, Sara Baume and David Szalay.Robbie Arnott's mad, wild debut novel is rough-hewn from the Tasmanian landscape and imbued with the folkloric magic of the oldest fireside storytellers.A young man named Levi McAllister de ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, ...Show more
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
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
$27.00 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Pobby and Dingan live in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the opal capital of Australia. They are friends with Kellyanne Williamson, the daughter of a miner: indeed only she can see them. Pobby and Dingan are imaginary. Ashmol Williamson, Kellyanne's brother thinks his sister should grow up and stop be ...Show more
Letters to the End of Love by Yvette Walker
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
With the readability of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the literary grace of Colm Tóibin, this brilliant debut novel satisfies on all levels. Three stories, three secrets, three marriages. In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist wife write le ...Show more
Elemental by Amanda Curtin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Nearing the end of her life, Meggie Tulloch takes up her pen to write a story for her granddaughter, Laura. It begins in the first years of the 20th century, in a place where the howling winds spin salt and sleet, sucked up from the ice floes. A place where lives are ruled by men, and men by the witchy ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2013 by Kim Scott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
'A story can lure us into gaps and spaces that feel sacred in their silence.' Kim Scott In The Best Australian Stories 2013, Kim Scott assembles the most exceptional short fiction of the last year and invites readers to build 'a rare and intimate relationship' with these talented writers, one that is 'e ...Show more