A Minor Fifth by G. S. Dickson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Aussie rock icon Billy Ordain is dead. But how and when he died is more than anyone can tell.Five people who knew Billy tell their stories of him, charting his ascent to fame — from learning music as a suburban teenager in the 60s, to his apotheosis as the most lauded, biggest selling artist in the coun ...Show more
Audrey's Gone AWOL by Annie de Monchaux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It’s never too late to reinvent your life Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family life for the best part of 40 years, but lately she’s become aware that she lost herself somewhere between 'I do' and the weekly shop. Worse, her academic husband Simon has found time for romance – just not w ...Show more
Burn by Melanie Saward
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Growing up in small-town Tasmania, Andrew struggled at home, at school, at everything. The only thing that distracted or excited him was starting little fires. Flames boosted his morale and purified his thoughts, and they were the only thing in his life he could control. Until one day things got out of ...Show more
The Great Undoing by Sharlene Allsopp
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on? In a near future all identity information is encoded in digital language. Nations know where everyone is, all the time. Not everyone agrees with this constant surveillance, and when the system is hijacked and shut down, all gl ...Show more
The Work by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The intersections between art, life, power and privilege are explored in this first work of fiction from the bestselling author of Eggshell Skull. Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying off. Pat is a scholarship boy desperate to establish himsel ...Show more
First Year ( 2024 Vogel Award Winner) by Kristina Ross
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
At seventeen, Maeve is naively single-minded about pursuing a life in the theatre. After a rigorous audition process, she secures a position at one of the most competitive drama schools in the country. Leaving behind the security of her childhood home in Queensland, Maeve moves to Melbourne and devotes ...Show more
One Another by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Eminent Australian author Gail Jones examines the intersections of art and life via a fictionalised biography of Joseph Conrad in her distinctively immersive and rich prose. At Cambridge University, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis on Joseph Conrad. But she is dis ...Show more
Halfway House by Helen FitzGerald
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The latest thriller from an author beloved for her pitch-dark humour and unnerving tension. Meet the roommates from hell On her first shift at a halfway house for violent offenders in Edinburgh - the only job she could get - rebounding Australian expat Lou is taken hostage. For nine long hours, the on ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Women and Children (HB) by Tony Birch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and ...Show more
Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Leap comes an unforgettable new novel about fathers and sons, and the damage that can ripple through generations. 'Frank feared a reckoning, but what he feared more was that all the men in his family were cursed. And that however hard he tried to be good, h ...Show more
The Glass House: A Novel of Mental Health by Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian 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