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
Borderland by Graham Akhurst
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Age range 13+Jono, a city-born Indigenous teenager is trying to figure out who he really is. Life in Brisbane hasn’t exactly made him feel connected to his Country or community. Luckily, he’s got his best friend, Jenny, who has been by his side through their hectic days at St Lucia Private.After graduat ...Show more
Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames. The world is on fire. And what will you do? In a city rocked by global catastrophe, home-grown terrorism, shortages and wildfires, Cass is quietly raising three small children by h ...Show more
Bright Objects by Ruby Todd
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
January 1997: In the small town of Jericho, New South Wales, Sylvia Knight is losing hope that the person who killed her husband will ever face justice. Since the night of the hit-and-run, her world has been shrouded in hazy darkness-until she meets Theo St John, the discoverer of a rare comet soon to b ...Show more
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, hor ...Show more
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
$21.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's not just secrets buried at Wild Meadows. For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. Rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother on an idyllic farming estate, they were given an elusive second chance of a happy family life. B ...Show more
Downstream by Annika Johansson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
What happens when your great Australian dream gets washed away? And then tries to drag your marriage down with it? Lismore resident Rob - a happily married empty-nester, enjoying his late middle age - has always defined himself by the quality of the roof over his head and the state of his family life. ...Show more
Dronikus by Marko Newman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Speculative fiction set in the near future. Malignant technology. Morality. Survival. Love.Dronikus tells the story of a man who stands up to the cynical destruction of our human and natural worlds.Unbearable heat by day; torrential rains at night; city streets flow like rivers; people huddle in doorway ...Show more
Edenhope by Louise Le Nay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The warm, heroic story of a grandmother's determination to save her family from themselves. Marnie is sixty-three and downwardly mobile. Her middle-class marriage is long gone, her only child more or less estranged. She's living in a granny flat behind a stranger's house. Still, things could be worse. S ...Show more
Heartsease by Kate Kruimink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
I saw my mother for a long time after she died. I would see her out windows, or in the corner of my eye. Always in the periphery, always a dim blur, but unmistakably my mother, the herness skating through every line and flicker. Charlotte ('Lot') and Ellen ('Nelly') are sisters who were once so close a ...Show more
Hospital (PB) (Miles Franklin longlist 2024) by Sanya Rushdi
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a community house and then to hospital, she questions the diagnosis of her sanity or insanity, as determined and defined by a med ...Show more
Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A powerful and important novel with a crucial and timely feminist message, from the Stella Prize-shortlisted author of Little Gods. She tells me to sit down, says that she has something I need to hear and it's that they don't cut hair or set curls. Well they do sometimes, but not always, she says. She ...Show more