The Woman in the Lobby by Lee Tulloch
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Violet Armengard never thinks of her extraordinary beauty as anything other than a nuisance. That is, until she ends up broke and alone in Paris. Through a series of chance encounters in hotel lobbies, Violet finds herself an object of interest to men rich enough to know the price of everything, includi ...Show more
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Winner of the 1996 International Impac Dublin Literary Award. In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of Australia at th ...Show more
The Good Parents by Joan London
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they are told by her housemate that Maya has gone away and no one know ...Show more
The Lost Boys by Sam de Brito
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Ned is 15. He and his friends while away their days smoking dope, trying to root chicks and surfing at Maroubra. Ned's life is only just beginning - tomorrow, some time. Ned is 35. He and his mates drift through the days snorting cocaine, trying to root chicks, clinging to the pub and surfing at Bondi. ...Show more
The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
His Illegal Self is the story of Che. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired t ...Show more
My Brilliant Career & My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound therefore on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and r ...Show more
Candy by Luke Davies
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
'There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy those were the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar...It's like you're cruising along in a beautiful car o ...Show more
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian
It is 1943; billowing dust and information, the government 'Better Farming Train' slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land.The train is on a crusade to persuade the country that science holds the answers and that productivity is pat ...Show more
Johnno by David Malouf
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, he is a figure of legendary proportions. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of gothic Brisbane, or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. But what is the truth about Johnno? Semi-auto ...Show more
The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the story of two people living one life. Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Retirement together. They even shared the same girl. They shared everything - except th ...Show more