And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? by Richard Flanagan
$19.98 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The collected short pieces of nonfiction from one of Australia's best novelists. 'And what do you do, Mr Faulkner?' asked Clark Gable after being introduced to William Faulkner at a party. 'I write,' replied Faulkner. 'And what do you do, Mr Gable?' Over the year ...Show more
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest and ignorance. When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid is disturbed ...Show more
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Cave's debut novel takes on the Southern Gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute i ...Show more
Another Australia by Edited by Winnie Dunn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Sweatshop
A suburban psychic's ominous warning. A conversation in Yuwaalaraay. A glimpse of a shameful, hidden history. A love that moves a mountain. In this unwavering follow-up to After Australia, twelve more boundary-pushing Indigenous writers and writers of colour show us all that is and could exist in our ve ...Show more
Antipodes by David Malouf
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In this volume of stories, first published in 1985, David Malouf evokes with compassion the emotions and excitement of adolescence, the melancholy threads that tie American immigrants to the Europe they left behind, and the sad, nostalgic power with which we endow the ordinary objects of life.
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
$12.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering ...Show more
Araluen by Judy Nunn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A spell-binding, multi-generational novel, set in the ruthless world of movie-making. On a blistering hot day in 1850, George and Richard Ross take their first steps on Australian soil after three long months at sea. All they have is each other, and a quarterly remittance from their irate father who has ...Show more
As Swallows Fly by L.P. McMahon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Malika, a young orphan in rural Pakistan, is savagely attacked, her face is left disfigured and her self-esteem destroyed. A few years later, her intellectual brilliance is discovered and she leaves conflict-stricken Pakistan for a better education in Melbourne where she finds herself placed with K ...Show more
As the River Rises by Fiona McArthur
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Dr Hannah Rogan, a GP from outback Queensland, is in hiding from an emotionally abusive ex-boyfriend. When a visit to her friend Gracie in Featherwood sparks the idea to move there and open a medical practice for the town, Hannah finds the fresh start she needs. The town has rebuilt after devastating fi ...Show more
At the End of the Day by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When Mim Squires and Mathias Vander are stranded together on a disrupted flight home to Perth, they are surprised to find that they have much in common. Mim owns a bookshop, Mathias is a writer, and both are at turning points in their lives. Mim's childhood polio is taking a toll on her life. Mathias is ...Show more
Australian Ugliness by Robin Boyd & Christos Tsiolkas
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Fifty years after its first publication, Robin Boyd's bestselling The Australian Ugliness remains the definitive statement on how we live and think in the environments we create for ourselves. In it Boyd railed against Australia's promotion of ornament, decorative approach to design and slavish imitatio ...Show more
Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century by David Walker
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
To imagine that we confront Asia for the first time in the twenty-first century is to deny our history and the self-awareness that comes from understanding that we have been here before. Asia appears throughout modern Australian history as a source of anxiety or hope. Generic Asia has been imagined, vis ...Show more