The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian author
The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment f ...Show more
At the End of the Day by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
When Mim Squires and Mathias Vander are stranded together on a disrupted flight home to Perth, they are surprised to find that they have much in common. Mim owns a bookshop, Mathias is a writer, and both are at turning points in their lives. Mim's childhood polio is taking a toll on her life. Mathias is ...Show more
Game by Trevor Shearston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
It is 1865. For three years Ben Hall and the men riding with him have been lords of every road in mid-western New South Wales from Bathurst to Goulburn, Lambing Flat to Forbes. But with the Harbourers' Act made law, coach escorts armed now with the new Colt revolving rifle, and mailbags more often conta ...Show more
Beautiful Messy Love by Tess Woods
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
What happens when love and loyalty collide? When football star Nick Harding hobbles into the Black Salt Cafe the morning after the night before, he is served by Anna, a waitress with haunted-looking eyes and no interest in footballers, famous or otherwise. Nick is instantly drawn to this exotic, intelli ...Show more
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his own. It's a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it. Told through the eyes of eight of those present at the barbecue, this acclaimed bestseller is an unflinching i ...Show more
Cusp by Josephine Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Lena knew that the most tenuous of threads held everything together. At home she was known as the girl who lost things. Books, pens, wallets, her mother's jewellery - the more precious the thing, the more likely she would lose it. She rifled through the pouch in from of her in search of her notebook. In ...Show more
Wild Lands by Nicole Alexander
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From bestselling author Nicole Alexander comes an epic novel of bravery, loyalty and impossible love that takes the reader on a spellbinding journey from the streets of early Sydney to the heart of Australia's wild, untamed lands. New South Wales, 1838, and settlers in search of fertile country are vent ...Show more
The Windy Season by Sam Carmody
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the mid-west town of Geraldton on the central coast of Western Australia. He is also a previous recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards and his short fiction and non-fic ...Show more
Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Pearl remembers Nell's feet stretched towards the campfires on the beach, her fourth toe curled in and nestled against the middle toe like a small prawn. They all have a curled fourth toe - Diana, Lucy, Pearl. When Pearl's grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly, Pearl and her family - mother Diana, sister L ...Show more
Demons by Wayne Macauley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
"They were going to tell stories. Let's go away for the weekend, said Megan, and leave our phones behind and turn off the computers and television and stop time because time is moving too fast and soon we'll all be saying where the hell did our lives go? We'll cook some food and drink some wine and each ...Show more
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pit ...Show more
Losing Face: An unforgettable novel about family and Western Sydney (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by George Haddad
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Joey is young, indifferent. He's drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And then one day he is involved in a violent crime, one that threatens to upend his life entirely.Elaine, his grandmother, is a proud Lebanese woman with problems of her own. When Joey is ar ...Show more