For The Term Of His Natural Life by CLARKE Marcus
$17.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Rufus Dawes, condemned to transportation for a crime he did not commit, is an important character in Australian literature. Set in convict Australia, this colonial novel is a narrative of great suffering - of whips, chains and man's inhumanity.
Dark Palace: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2001 (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Palais des Nations Ser.
On the night of October 15, 1931, Edith Campbell Berry is in the dining room of the Hotel des Bergues in Geneva, celebrating in the renewal of her contract as an officer of the league of nations. However, times are changing, for Edith and for the League. The grand days of early idealism and optimism are ...Show more
Fifteen Kinds of Desire by Mandy Sayer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays
'Or at least there is a desire to become a smaller part of something larger in life, something that will take charge of you as though you were a child.' Richard Ford, WILDLIFE, from the epigraph to FIFTEEN KINDS OF DESIRE A young child is preyed upon by a molester - and turns the tables in a terrifying ...Show more
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.