Too Many Men by Lily Brett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
From the award-winning author of 'Just Like That' and the acclaimed essay collection 'In Full View' comes a funny and moving novel about family, memory, and Mercedes cars. Ruth Rothwax is a successful, feisty businesswoman with a healthy sense of irony to compensate for her three divorces. But Ruth's fa ...Show more
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian
At the turn of the century Stan Parker takes a wife and makes a home as a small farmer in the wilderness of Australia. Amy bears his children and time brings him a procession of ordinary events - achievements, disappointments, sorrows and dreams. The author won the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Nocturne by Diane Armstrong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
It is Warsaw, 1939, and Elzunia is an indulged teenager who longs for a heroic life filled with romance. But the outbreak of war shatters all her dreams. As bombs fall, she meets Adam, a taciturn airman whose fate becomes entwined with hers. In despair over the occupation, Adam joins the Polish resistan ...Show more
Empire Day by Diane Armstrong
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Bondi Junction in the late 1940s is a microcosm of changing Australia, and life is changing too fast for locals like salt-of-the-earth Pop Wilson, prickly Miss McNulty and feisty single mum Kath, all of whom resent the European `reffos’ who have moved in. The newcomers are struggling to rebuild their li ...Show more
Desert Fish by Cherise Saywell
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Gilly lives in a drought-ridden small town in 1970s Australia. She's left school but hasn't found a job, it's always hot and life seems a little pointless. Then Pete arrives. Golden-skinned with a kind smile and relaxed attitude, he boards with Gilly and her family and breaks the tension between her phi ...Show more
This Too Shall Pass by S. J. Finn
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Explores the shifting nature of a human being's life, and the ways in which we come undone and pich ourselve's up again.
That Deadman Dance: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011 by Kim Scott
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Bobby Wabalanginy never learned fear, not until he was pretty well a grown man. Sure, he grew up doing the Dead Man Dance - those stiff movements, those jerking limbs - as if he'd learned it from their very own selves; but with him it was a dance of life, a lively dance for people to do together... Told ...Show more
Trust by Kate Veitch
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Susanna Greenfield's handsome, successful husband is a loving father to their two teenage children. Her mother is her dearest friend. Susanna has a solid career as an art teacher. But beneath the carefully maintained surface, seismic forces are at work. In a single ill-judged moment the fabric it has ta ...Show more
The Lost Life (Eliot Quartet) by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The\Eliot Quartet Ser.
England, 1934. Two young lovers have trespassed into a rose garden of an abandoned house in the English countryside. They witness the poet T.S. (Tom) Eliot and his friend Emily Hale, enter the garden and bury a small tin together. Tom is married, and his wife has no intention of letting him go. What is ...Show more
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the little hours of January morning in 1930, Onan Island off the Queensland coast, a man goes berserk with a rifle and a box of gelignite. Is he evil? Or crazy? His violence is in fact a mirror for the brutality of Australian life - and is a dim reflection at that, in a country where atrocities by wh ...Show more
Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In masterful prose, the author of SURRENDER tells a quiet but powerful tale about the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence. (Ages 14 and up) Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she ...Show more
God of Speed by Luke Davies
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A vividly imagined and reveting portrait of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary characters - avaitor, film-maker, and billionaire, Howard Hughes.