Something Blue by Alex Sarkis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Nicole Najim is struggling to find herself after a painful breakup just when she thought she was going to settle down. Working a dead-end job in the family car dealership, and at a loose end, she picks up a camera and returns to the melting pot of Sydney’s West – an area largely ignored by the rest of t ...Show more
Enclave (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Claire G. Coleman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From the critically acclaimed author of Terra Nullius comes a novel in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman that explores a future of surveillance, disruption and segregation that echoes the horrors of a colonial past. 'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voi ...Show more
The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre by Natasha Lester
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Discover a breathtaking story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Secret. Alix St. Pierre was an ordinary woman. Until she became a spy for the American government. 1943. War is raging, and after developing a successful propaganda campaign to ...Show more
The Whitewash by Siang Lu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Siang Lu's searing debut is a black comedy about the whitewashing of the Asian film industry, told in the form of an oral documentaryIt sounded like a good idea at the time- A Hollywood spy thriller, starring, for the first time in history, an Asian male lead. With an estimated $350 million production b ...Show more
Clarke by Holly Throsby
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'Clarke is illuminated with such wonderful, vivid characters. Rarely have I felt so deeply invested in a story - I loved this book so much. Throsby is a supremely gifted storyteller, and Clarke truly is a wonder.' Mark Brandi On a hot morning in 1991 in the regional town of Clarke, Barney Clarke (no re ...Show more
The Prize by Kim E. Anderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'Is that what you want to do? Peer into my soul and capture my flaws, for all to see?' As World War II draws to a close, Australian society is still deeply conservative. Homosexuality is illegal and the scourge of Modernism is infecting Australian art. When William Dobell paints a portrait of lover and ...Show more
Funny Ethnics by Shirley Le
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share house in the inner west, and cackled. Funny Ethnics catapults readers into the sprawling city-within-a-city that is Western Sydney ...Show more
Mahler Erasures by John Kinsella
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: Australian Literature Ser.
Once a fêted literary figure, the former lover of B-list movie star Lucida, but now derelict, incontinent, asexual, ageing poet Harold Lime turns his back on material modernity, withdrawing to a basement in the university town of Cambridge, England. But human connections will prove difficult to sever co ...Show more
Mistakes and Other Lovers by Amy Lovat
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
El O'Reilly is exceptionally good at making mistakes. Mistakes like: -falling in love with the charismatic youth pastor, Mace, while engaged to her high school boyfriend -breaking up with her fiancé the night before Valentine's Day -walking out on her family -dropping out of uni with no plan B -gho ...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
Mr Carver's Whale by Lyn Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
Our story begins when a sea chest of books is delivered to Antonio Mateus João Carvalho Cabral, the youngest son of the Carvalhos family on the whaling island of Pico, in the Azores ... but that's just the start of this darkly charming story of love, death, desire, atonement ... and whales. This is the ...Show more
Wimmera by Mark Brandi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Pre-read / Used. Good condition. Inscription in front cover. Creased spine. In the long, hot summer of 1989, Ben and Fab are best friends. Growing up in a small country town, they spend their days playing cricket, yabbying in local dams, wanting a pair of Nike Air Maxes and not talking about how ...Show more