When One Person Dies the Whole World Is Over by Mandy Ord
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A poignant, bright and elegiac work of illustrated nonfiction by one of Australia’s most revered comics makers. When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over is a quietly enthralling and intimate work about the search for meaning in the everyday, and what it might mean to belong. A record of a year of a ...Show more
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. F ...Show more
When We Fall by Aoife Clifford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
‘It isn’t strangers you need to worry about here. Blood lines run deep and in unexpected places. Every victim, every accused, we’ll know. The past runs alongside us all the time. Some days it spills into the open.’ In the wild, coastal town of Merritt, Alex Tillerson and her mother make a shocking find ...Show more
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
What would you do if the secret police demanded you spy on a friend in order to protect your family? Three women confront the complexities of trust, friendship and motherhood under the rule of a dictator in this debut inspired by the author's own experiences in Iraq. At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, ...Show more
When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Longlisted for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, this "moving account of the depth of ordinary lives" (Library Journal, starred review) tells of a young Tasmanian girl and a Danish sailor in their search for meaning and whose brief encounter leaves a lasting impact on both.Isla is a lonely girl who ...Show more
When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015. Running away from the mainland was supposed to make their lives better. But, for Isla and her brother, their mother's sadness and the cold, damp greyness of Hobart's stone streets seeps into everything. Then, one morning, Isla sees a red ship. That ...Show more
When the War Was Here by Roxanne Veletzos
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An epic World War II tale of star-crossed lovers separated by class, circumstance and tragedy from the bestselling author of The Girl They Left Behind Hungary, 1943. As war encroaches on the country’s borders, willful young Eva arrives in the idyllic town of Sopron to spend her last summer as ...Show more
Where Angel Fears to Tread by Robert Perrier; Robert Whyte (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Where Angel Fears To Tread is a fast-paced thriller set in Brisbane, in the genre known as Brisbane Noir. Angel is not your average hit man. He has a deep understanding of literature, classical music and fine art. Some people take drugs, go shopping or get super fit. Angel reads books, studies the paint ...Show more
Where The Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thunder-ing waves crashing on unseen shores. Spanning four generations, with a focus on the 1960s and 70s, an era of rapid social change and burgeoning Aboriginal rights, Where the Fruit Falls is a re-imagining of the ...Show more
Where the Light Gets In by Zoe Coyle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For anyone who has ever loved and lost, and dared to rise again Delphi Hoffman, a wild child living in London, is finally getting her life together with a new love affair and the offer of a coveted job - until she receives the phone call she hoped would never arrive. 'It's time.' Her mother Vivien's ...Show more
Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson
$19.98 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'All in?' Kieran pulled me up, and the others followed. We gathered around the bigger tree. No one asked Matty - he just reached up and put his right hand on the trunk with ours. Kieran cleared his throat. 'We swear, on these trees, to always be friends. To protect each other - and this place.' Finding ...Show more
While You Were Reading by Ali Berg; Michelle Kalus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Words are messy. Love is messier. A love story for book lovers that celebrates much more than romance. Meet Beatrix Babbage - 29-year-old dog-earer of books and accidental destroyer of weddings. After ruining her best friend's nuptials, Bea relocates to the other side of the country in search of a fr ...Show more