A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Author
A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller.
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: very good
MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER 2022 Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman's turbulent life So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or- he'd found Maggie.I had no wa ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: 100 Club - MUST READ AUSTRALIAN NOVELS | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Author
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a p ...Show more
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism. 'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.' Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upsi ...Show more
The Last Woman in the World by Inga Simpson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Award-winning novelist and nature writer Inga Simpson terrifies and enthralls with this truly remarkable novel of a woman who must face her worst fears to find survive and find beauty in a world under attack. Fear is her cage. But what's outside is worse... It's night, and dust swirls against the walls ...Show more
How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
In 1932, Wanny Woldstad, a young widow, travels to Svalbard, daring to enter the Norwegian trappers' fiercely guarded male domain. She must prove to Anders Sæterdal, her trapping partner who makes no secret of his disdain, that a woman is fit for the task. Over the course of a Svalbard winter, Wanny and ...Show more
The Tea Ladies of St Jude's Hospital by Joanna Nell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Feel Good Fiction
The heartwarming and hilarious new novel by the author of cherished bestsellers, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria has been serving refreshments and raising money at the hospital for over fifty year ...Show more
7 1/2 Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Reading Level: near fine
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
The Hush by Sara Foster
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
Everything can change in a heartbeat ... The pulse-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of You Don't Know Me'The novel everyone will be talking about' Natasha Lester Lainey's friend Ellis is missing. And she's not the only one. In the six months since the first case of a terrifying new epid ...Show more