After the Rain by Aisling Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in danger of being swept away. Her husband, Benjamin, a linguist, is a conundrum. He has changed. Or has she? The stories and superstitions of her childho ...Show more
All Aboard! True Train Tales by Pauline Deeves
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Jack loves visiting Grandpa in his old train carriage. He loves helping him in the train museum. And he loves hearing his stories about trains and railways. From runaway engines to people-powered carriages, train-robbing bushrangers and lifesaving pointsmen, Grandpa always has a tale to pass the time. B ...Show more
All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for guidance ...Show more
All That I Am by Anna Funder
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. 'A ripper.' The Australian 'Gripping.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Brilliant ...Show more
Allegra in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel
$18.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020I can split myself in two . . . something I have to do because of Joy and Matilde. They are my grandmothers and I love them both and they totally love me but they can't stand each other. Eleven-year-old Allegra shuttles between her grandmothers who live next door to one another bu ...Show more
Almost a Mirror by Kirsten Krauth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Like fireflies to the light, Mona, Benny and Jimmy are drawn into the elegantly wasted orbit of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk scene of 80s Melbourne, a world that includes Nick Cave and Dodge, a photographer pushing his art to the edge. With precision and richness Kirsten Krauth hauntingly evo ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In AmnesiaPeter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy years- Has America taken us over?When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an Ameri ...Show more
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend ...Show more
Among the River Sallows by Nathan Nielsen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Set amid Kraków's enchanting beauty and the grimy legacy of Poland's communist past, this is a story of cultures and pasts colliding, and the things born from such collisions.Matthew Campbell, a thirty-year-old Australian who's hung up on a past love, chooses to teach English in the Polish city of Krakó ...Show more
An Elephant on Your Nose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
British Intelligence operative Isabella Di Stefano Butterfield has been dispatched to Tokyo for a very special purpose. Until recently, Japan seemed immune to the Islamic-inspired terror attacks that swept the world after 9/11. But the 2015 beheading of two Japanese aid workers in Syria changed everythi ...Show more
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: good
"In the first century A. D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of out most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Maroon ...Show more
An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Jerra and his best mate Sean set off in a beaten-up old VW to go camping on the coast. Jerra's friends and family want to know when he will finish university, when he will find a girl. But they don't understand about Sean's mother, Jewel, or the bush or the fish with the pearl. They think he needs a job ...Show more