Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day -- in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up -- she doesn't know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed. On ...Show more
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Another rich and sumptuously told tale based on the life of artist Dorothea Graff, from award-winning and bestselling author of The Birdman's Wife and The Bee and the Orange Tree, Melissa Ashley. Set in 1700s Amsterdam and the wilds of the South American jungle, it charts the creation of one of the mos ...Show more
For Everything a Time by Mark McAvaney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
For everything there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens. After thirteen years it’s time for Mac to return home to face a past he’s been running from. A past his best friend Dave has been unable to escape. It was 1990, their final year of school and with an INXS ...Show more
Words From the Park: The Journal of the Vic Park Writers' Group
$15.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
Day by Michael Cunningham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabe ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. An unforgettable story of artistry and unity under occupation. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with a ...Show more
The River We Remember (PB) by William Kent Krueger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Thriller
On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff ...Show more
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love - a sharply funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship, and how to survive both. Every relationship has one beginning. This one has two endings. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he c ...Show more
Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Prize WINNER (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds me ...Show more
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
$22.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
"If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this" (The Sunday Times, London): An award-winning debut novel from a rising star in Australia--a hauntingly beautiful story about the bond of brotherhood and the fragility of youth. Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coas ...Show more