The Fragments by Toni Jordan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things- a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book-and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers.Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in li ...Show more
The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes an internationally bestselling World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family. 1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissette ...Show more
To Love a Sunburnt Country (#4 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy is 16 and left school to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow was famed for. Now Nancy's family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her sister-in-law Moira and baby Gavin. Moira is British and married to Nancy's br ...Show more
Afternoons with Harvey Beam by Carrie Cox
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Confirming his suspicions that you can successfully run away from your problems and a dysfunctional family, talk-show host Harvey Beam got out of his regional hometown as soon as he could. Beam creates a stellar radio career in the city, and builds a life that bears no resemblance to the one he left beh ...Show more
The Coves by David Whish-Wilson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
San Francisco, 1849: a place gripped by gold fever, swarming with desperate men come to seek their fortune. Among them are former convicts, Australians quick to seize control in a town without masters, a town for the taking. Into this world steps an Australian boy in search of his mother. Just twelve ye ...Show more
Simpson Returns: A Novella by Wayne Macauley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Ninety years after they were thought to have died heroically in the Great War, the stretcher-bearer Simpson and his donkey journey through country Victoria, performing minor miracles and surviving on offerings left at war memorials. They are making their twenty-ninth, and perhaps final, attempt to find ...Show more
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Abandoned by her mother and seldom visited by her unpredictable, violent father, 10-year-old Justine is raised by her grandfather, Pop - a man tormented by visions of war.Through years of poverty and neglect, Justine finds solace in the staggering natural beauty of the nearby Murray River. But when outs ...Show more
You Belong Here by Laurie Steed
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
You Belong Here follows the Slater family from the years 1972 - 2002, finding faith, faults, and redemption, in a raw, at times heartbreaking, but ultimately hopeful meditation on what it means to be a family in modern Australia. 'An unforgettable exploration of the things that hold families together, a ...Show more
The Year of the Farmer by Rosalie Ham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
In a quiet farming town somewhere in country New South Wales, war is brewing.The last few years have been punishingly dry, especially for the farmers, but otherwise, it's all Neralie Mackintosh's fault. If she'd never left town then her ex, the hapless but extremely eligible Mitchell Bishop, would never ...Show more
The Keepers by Al Campbell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
This daring and dazzling debut shines a light on those who are let down by the systems that are supposed to care for them, or by parents who can't love, revealing the unsung heroes of our communities.Jay's life is devoted to the care of her twin teenage sons, who view the world as differently as it view ...Show more
Legends of the Lost Lilies (Miss Lily, #5) by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: Miss Lily Ser.
The final and thrilling conclusion to the popular and bestselling Miss Lily series A mysterious telegram that says, 'Lily needs you' arrives just before a plane from war-ravaged England lands in one of Sophie Greenman's paddocks. Sophie, Countess of Shillings, has been living a quiet life on her pro ...Show more
Dinner with the Schnabels by Toni Jordan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'I loved every page of this funny, warm, delightful novel!' LIANE MORIARTY You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and family. Things haven't gone well for Simon Larsen lately. He adores his wife, Tansy, and his children, but since his business fai ...Show more