A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her view, and alternating between alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self-aware, sometimes acerbic, and painfully honest. And by the end o ...Show more
The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From the winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award, this tour-de-force explores loneliness and desire, the peril and beauty of solitude - and our need for connection. 'A compelling story about isolation, duty, desire, fear and escape. As each character in The Shut-Ins feels increasingly trapped by ...Show more
She Is Haunted by Paige Clark
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
I know lots of things now that I'm dead. Peter from Apartment Two has a spastic bladder. My former boss Morgan keeps her toenails in a gold jewellery box. My brother and his wife are trying for a baby. I always excuse myself before things get too heated.I don't know much about my mother yet. I am waitin ...Show more
Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centres, rows of estates and a thematic design scheme. Twenty-four-year-old Leen is going to open an ear-cleaning and massage salon in the Topic Heights Shopping Centre, taking her mother's Chinese ritual to the West to bring people back to their bodies. But somethi ...Show more
Travelling Companions by Antoni Jach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'Antoni Jach takes one of the oldest of storytelling forms, the traveller who shares with us the tales of other travellers, and makes new magic from it. Travelling Companions is a joy from start to finish.’ — John Connolly, author of he: A Novel and the Charlie Parker series Solitary travellers and a c ...Show more
The Long Game by Simon Rowell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Crime | Series: Detective Zoe Mayer Ser.
A tightly-wound debut crime novel set in Melbourne and surrounds, for fans of Sarah Bailey, Garry Disher and J. M. Green A summer of relentless heat. A local surfer named Ray Carlson is found dead in a house not far from Portsea back beach. There's a silver-handled kitchen knife deep in his chest, and ...Show more
The Performance by Claire Thomas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
The breakout literary sensation of 2021, THE PERFORMANCE is a tightly woven examination of women's inner lives that is enthralling, profound and deeply human. 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 ne ...Show more
Echolalia by Briohny Doyle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
What could drive a mother to do the unthinkable? Before- Emma Cormac married into a perfect life but now she's barely coping. Inside a brand new, palatial home, her three young children need more than she can give. Clem, a wilful four year old, is intent on mimicking her grandmother; the formidable matr ...Show more
The Attack by Catherine Jinks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
Robyn Ayres works as the camp caretaker on Finch Island, a former leper colony off the coast of Queensland. Her current clients are a group of ex-military men who run a tough-love program for troubled teens. The latest crop looks like the usual mix of bad boys and sad boys. Then Robyn takes a second lo ...Show more
The Golden Book by Kate Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
''Jessie had said they should go at midnight. It's the gods' time, she said, narrowing her eyes dramatically. Anything could happen.' It's the 1980s, and Ali and her best friend, Jessie, are on the cusp. In the simmering heat of summer, in their small coastal town, they are starting to chafe at the res ...Show more
Echo in the Memory by Cameron Nunn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
What if memories never die? An evocative Australian YA novel about family, place, and how history has a way of weaving itself into our present. When fifteen-year-old Will is sent away to stay with his grandparents in rural New South Wales, he finds the isolated farm strangely familiar; except the memor ...Show more
I Shot the Devil by Ruth McIver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Mystery
They went out to the woods to have fun. And two of them didn't return. A dark, twisty thriller of small town buried secrets. Twenty years ago, the devil visited the woods around Newport, Long Island, claiming the lives of two boys. A local youth was charged with murder. Case closed. Now journalist Erin ...Show more