The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: Don Tillman Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his f ...Show more
Why Do Horses Run? by Cameron Stewart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pain who recognise that in others. He walked not feeling he was connected to the earth, but on the edge of something he couldn't reach. He pushed on through mist and darkness and clutched the blanket tight ...Show more
The Truth About Her by Jacqueline Maley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? A critically acclaimed, absorbing, moving, ruefully tender, witty and wise novel of marriage, motherhood and the paths we navigate through both, for fans of Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler. 'I loved The Truth About Her. It ...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
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
To Sing of War: The breathtaking new novel from the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted author of Storyland, for readers of Anthony Doerr, Fiona McFarlane and Barbara Kingsolver by Catherine McKinnon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. December 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, there to fight the Japanese and ke ...Show more
Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Internationally published author: the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark. Award winning author. The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres an ...Show more
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: good
"In the first century A. D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of out most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Maroon ...Show more
Every Move You Make by David Malouf
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: good
Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - here are their stories, whole lives brought vividly into focus and so powerfully rooted in the landscape that you can almost feel the he ...Show more
The Silent Country by Di Morrissey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
TV producer Veronica Anderson travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that set out 50 years ago to film the outback and ended in tragedy. Those of the group still alive are reluctant to talk and as Veronica with the help of a Park Ranger piece together the puzzle the an ...Show more
The Danger Game by Kalinda Ashton
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
Alice and Louise are sisters united by a distant tragedy - a house fire lit by their brother, who burnt to death. Alice teaches at a dirt-poor school the government wants to close, while Louise is a recovering heroin addict and habitual liar. Everything changes when Louise decides to unravel the truth a ...Show more
Ransom by David Malouf
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad--one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclu ...Show more