Thunderhead by Miranda Darling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman's struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day -- in the peaceful early hours before her children, that 'tiny tornado of little hands and feet', wake up -- she doesn't know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed. On ...Show more
The Naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Another rich and sumptuously told tale based on the life of artist Dorothea Graff, from award-winning and bestselling author of The Birdman's Wife and The Bee and the Orange Tree, Melissa Ashley. Set in 1700s Amsterdam and the wilds of the South American jungle, it charts the creation of one of the mos ...Show more
For Everything a Time by Mark McAvaney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
For everything there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens. After thirteen years it’s time for Mac to return home to face a past he’s been running from. A past his best friend Dave has been unable to escape. It was 1990, their final year of school and with an INXS ...Show more
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
An exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother-a woman Kate feared as a child, and only came to understand in adulthood. Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor f ...Show more
Naked Ambition by Robert Gott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'You're a politician, a public figure. What on earth were you thinking?' Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White - a painting she intends to enter in this year's Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of ...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
New York City Glow (Graphic) by Rachel Coad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A snake, an octopus and the near death of Johnny Ramone. The almost true account of the 1977 New York City blackout.Set in the 1970s, the story's capstone is the 1977 New York City blackout.Ray the snake is a sad, lonely, middle aged insurance salesman from Midway Kentucky, looking for a better life. St ...Show more
Ordinary Human Love by Melissa Goode
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
'Sensual, melancholy, hypnotic. Ordinary Human Love is a richly textured, exquisitely observed portrait of memory, longing, love and forgiveness.' Emily MaguireThe end of the affair is just the beginningMardi McKee, prodigal daughter, arrives at her father's home in Lithgow, Australia, after drifting ov ...Show more
The Glass House: A Novel of Mental Health by Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compelling, addictive novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine told with heart, humour and insight by Anne Buist and The Rosie Project's Graeme Simsion. Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$22.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS
The bestselling and award-winning novel from the author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vi ...Show more
A Light in the Dark by Allee Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Iris doesn't remember the first time she met Nina. But she remembers the first time she paid attention to her. It was when he did. The first year of high school brought Iris into a type of privilege she'd never felt part of. But then she found her place. The magic of performing in school musicals and t ...Show more
Songs for the Dead and the Living by Sara M Saleh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house above a paint shop on the outskirts of Beirut, with her large, chaotic, loving family. But she soon learns that as Palestinian refugees, her family's life in Lebanon is precarious. Songs for the Dead and the Living is a comingof-age ta ...Show more