The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The Monkey's Mask is a totally unique experience. It's poetry. It's a crime thriller. It's where high art meets low life, passion meets betrayal, and poetry faces profanity on the streets of a harsh modern city. Dorothy Porter's internationally bestselling verse novel holds you in its grip from the firs ...Show more
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'I lost my own father at 12 years of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word. I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false'. In "True History Of The Kelly Gang", ...Show more
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In the history of Australian literature few books have been more controversial than Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory. This is a tale of corruption stretching from street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in the land - and the terrible personal cost of the power such corruption brings. Jo ...Show more
The Idea Of Perfection by Kate Grenville
$22.95 AUD
Category: Australian
By the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001, this is a witty and tender romance that demonstrates that sometimes, unexpectedly, there can be something better than perfection.The Idea of Perfection is a funny and touching romance between two people who've given up on love. Set in the eccentric lit ...Show more
Lily Brett - Collected Stories: Collected Stories by Lily Brett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
This book brings together two sequences of stories which form a discontinuing saga of a Melbourne community of Holocaust survivors and their families. The stories are very funny, passionate, compassionate, full of energy and contain a typically Jewish comic honesty.
The Great World: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1991 by David Malouf
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
For the two men in this novel, war was supposed to be a testing ground. But it proved to be an ordeal of a different kind. Spanning 70 years of Australian life, from Sydney's Cross to the backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, this is a novel of lost innocence and witness.
Harland's Half-acre by David Malouf
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
From his poverty-stricken upbringing on a farm in Queensland, Frank Harland nurtures his artistic genius until the time comes when he can take possession of his dreams. Inextricably tangled with Frank is Phil Vernon, the only child of a wealthy Brisbane family, whose roots stretch back to England.
Child's Play by David Malouf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
In an office there is a group of young people who work from morning till night, six days a week. Their way of life during office hours is dedicated and austere. The discipline they follow seems monastic. These people, who see themselves simply as "technologists", are in fact assassins.
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Set in Australia during the gold-mining boom, this trilogy is comprised of the novels "Australia Felix", "The Way Home" and "Ultima Thule". It follows the fortunes of Mahony, a man increasingly dissatisfied with his ordered life.
The Vivisector by Patrick White
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The people who court him are, above all, the victims of his art, and he dissects their weaknesses with cruel precision. The Australian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
The Death of Napoleon (PB) by Simon Leys
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian
As he bore a vague resemblance to the Emperor, the sailors on board the Hermann-Augustus Stoeffer had nicknamed him Napoleon. And so, for convenience, that is what we shall call him. Besides, he was Napoleon. . . . Napoleon has escaped from St. Helena, leaving a double behind him. Now disguised as t ...Show more
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
$25.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With the androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.