The Bookshop on Jacaranda Street by Marlish Glorie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The heart-warming story for bookworms that shows it's never too late to turn the page and start a new chapter.Helen can't sleep. Her husband's hoarding tendencies have taken over not only their house, but their marriage too, and she needs out. In a moment of desperation, Helen burns her bed, and leaves. ...Show more
The Albatross by Nina Wan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Primrose Li is torn - between her past and her present, her first love and her current love, duty and desire, fear and freedom. One day, as she's almost come apart at the seams, she takes an unexpected detour to her local golf course. Slowly, this sport - which she is terrible at - becomes her meditatio ...Show more
A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
In a novel of stark and lyrical beauty, award-winning author Stephen Daisley portrays the brutal effects of war on two New Zealand brothers. The old people in the district would often say that Roy was not quite the same after he come back. There was a brother. A twin brother, Tony. Tony Mitchell, diff ...Show more
Eta Draconis by Brendan Ritchie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Elora is leaving her hometown for university. Leaving behind friends, family, and safety to follow her dream of studying theatre while she still has the chance.Together, Elora and her older sister, Vivienne, set out by road for the city and the upcoming semester. The relationship between them is fractur ...Show more
Thaw by Dennis Glover
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Some secrets won't stay buried. 'Scott's lost expedition was still here, she thought - frozen, preserved, waiting to be rescued from the thaw. The truth lay beneath the surface, and she was going to bring it up.' In 1912, five British explorers struggle across the freezing Antarctic landscape, through ...Show more
The French Promise by Fiona McIntosh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Postwar Paris is alive with optimism but lavender keeper Luc Ravens and his love Lisette remain haunted by the horrors they have endured. Casting their fate to the winds, they set sail for Australia, hoping to rebuild their lives in a land that's full of promise.Postwar Paris is alive with optimism but ...Show more
The Performance by Claire Thomas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the nearby hills where bushfires are taking hold.The house lights lower.The auditorium feels hopeful in the darkness.As bushfires rage outside the city, three women wa ...Show more
The Riviera House by Natasha Lester
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Paris, 1939 When Nazis occupy the city, Eliane Dufort is heartbroken - her lover flees for England and her family to the country. She finds herself working at the Louvre on a dangerous secret mission for the French Resistance: to record the priceless national treasures the Germans are stealing.Present D ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Greece, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction, there are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of these people-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at ...Show more
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An astonishingly inventive, playful, funny, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most exciting new literary voices. Margaret Bryce, deceased mother of twins, has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. These days - they're not exactly days - she visits her daughter Eva in Madri ...Show more
Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An evocative novel of love and art, and one man's journey to find his place in the world. Where Light Meets Water is a moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne and New Zealand's rugged South Island. London, 1847. Sailor Tom Rutherford has two passions: the sea and his painting. Sent ...Show more
Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A year ago the house had been full of life, of noise, of love. Now there were long stretches of silence that settled between them like a fog so dense it made it hard to see a way out, made it hard for them to see each other . . . He was losing sight of the only thing he'd ever truly been certain about.S ...Show more