A Place Near Eden by Nell Pierce
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the prestigious The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award. 'Lyrical, gritty and compelling . . .a story of haunted truth-seeking.' CAROLINE OVERINGTON, The Australian'A skilfully written, insightful novel . . . absorbing and a pleasure to read.' HSU-MING TEO, previous winner of The Australian/Vo ...Show more
A Plan to Save the World by Elaelah Harley (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Willa Triston loves three things - music, her only friend Poppy, and the earth. These passions are put on hold, and her reclusive life is shattered after she sees a strange flickering light from her window. Her lack of impulse control forces her to investigate it, but the night turns dangerous, and ...Show more
A Pure Clear Light: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project...what could go wrong? A Pure Clear Lightexamines a marriage at the moment it goes hapless ...Show more
A Recipe for Family by Tori Haschka
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Perfect for fans of Meg Mason and Sally Hepworth; a powerful and heart-rending story about how food connects us and assumptions divide us – and how true family can come from where you least expect it. Things are getting slippery for Stella. With her husband away she’s juggling a full-time job, a tricky ...Show more
A Remarkable Woman by Jules Van Mil
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Frenchwoman Avril Montdidier is on a mission: to emigrate to Australia and start her own fashion business, leaving the tragedies of the Second World War behind her. She has family in Melbourne and an apprenticeship at Dior in Paris under her tailored belt, so the future seems bright. Avril settles into ...Show more
A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her view, and alternating between alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self-aware, sometimes acerbic, and painfully honest. And by the end o ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it?;;Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her heart, the search for ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Do not believe too quickly... What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What fol ...Show more
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Kate Grenville.What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously fou ...Show more
A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: hc | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
What he had been searching for was not the perfect religious order but the perfect landscape...From that moment on he was a poet in search of his ideal landscape. Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnan ...Show more
A Treacherous Country (Winner 2020 Australian Vogel's Literary Award) by K. M. Kruimink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL'S LITERARY AWARD There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's de ...Show more