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
Shadows of Winter Robins by Louise Wolhuter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Sometimes you must shine a light on the dark places to see what was always there. ‘Nancy won’t be coming home.’ And there it is: that pip of a moment. That instant. That fraction of a second. That weightless stillness at the very top of a ball’s bounce, between its going up and falling down. My brother ...Show more
Ambulance Girls Under Fire by Deborah Burrows
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Celia Ashton has driven ambulances throughout the Blitz for the Bloomsbury Auxiliary Ambulance Depot. Cool under fire, she revels in her exciting and extremely dangerous job. When her husband, a known Nazi supporter, is released from prison, Celia refuses to return to her unhappy marriage. Instead she j ...Show more
The Tea Gardens by Fiona McIntosh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Spirited doctor Isla Fenwick is determined to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to life as a dutiful wife. With hopes of making a difference in the world, she sails to Calcutta to set up a midwifery clinic. There she will be forced to question her beliefs, her professionalism a ...Show more
Man Out of Time by Stephanie Bishop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
When Stella's father, Leon, disappears in September 2001, the police knock at her door. She baulks at their questions, not sure how to answer. 'What if I just write it down for you.' One summer, a long time ago, Stella sat watching her father cry while the sky clouded over. He had tried to make amends: ...Show more
The Lucky One by Caroline Overington
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Keep your secrets. Tell your lies. The gripping new psychological thriller from the author of the bestselling The One Who Got Away. An old castle ... For more than 150 years, a grand house known as Alden Castle has stood proudly in the rolling hills of California's wine country, home to a family weighed ...Show more
The Girl on the Page by John Purcell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Amy Winston is a hard-drinking, bed-hopping, hot-shot young book editor on a downward spiral. Having made her name and fortune by turning an average thriller writer into a Lee Child, Amy is given the unenviable task of steering literary great Helen Owen back to publication.When Amy knocks on the door of ...Show more
The Rosie Result (C-format) by Graeme Simsion
$29.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction | Series: Don Tillman Ser. | Reading Level: very good
I was standing on one leg shucking oysters when the problems began...' Don and Rosie are back in Melbourne after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important project. Their son, Hudson, is having trouble at school- his teachers say he isn't fitting in with the other kids. Meanwhi ...Show more
The Subjects by Sarah Hopkins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
As we got closer I could see behind the sandstone a curved concrete building: a purpose-built structure. But still no fence, no wire. Not a bar in sight. For this, I'd been told that morning, I should be grateful. This was a 'lifeline...a last chance'. That is what the judge said. Daniel is a sixteen-y ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the child of survivors of the revolution. Parrot, the son of an English printer, is a restless servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid another revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe ...Show more
Her Mother's Secret by Natasha Lester
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
1918, England.Armistice Day should bring peace into Leonora East's life. Rather than making cosmetics secretly in her father's chemist shop, Leo hopes to now display her wares openly. Instead, Spanish flu arrives in the village, claiming her father's life. Determined to start over she boards a ship to N ...Show more