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.
Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney's affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden. On a drunken whim, Marie gets a tattoo - an act that gives way to an unexp ...Show more
The Fix by Nick Earls
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Josh Lang went to London with investigative journalism on his mind, but he carved out a reputation as a fixer instead and mastered the art of spinning any client out of a crisis. Now he's home in Brisbane, and this time the job is supposed to be good news. The client is a law firm, the talent is Ben Har ...Show more
Last Summer by Kylie Ladd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Rory Buchanan is a typical Aussie knockabout bloke: a born leader, a good sportsman, a devoted family man and an all-round good guy. He captains the second-grade cricket side at Regents Park Cricket Club and all his friends adore him. One day, however, Rory dies suddenly at a training session, and this ...Show more
Conditions of Faith by Alex Miller
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
An amazing book; a compulsively readable story composed by an award-winning author of brilliant, subtle, compassionate and intelligent language. When Alex Miller's mother died she left him her fragmentary journal from the 1920s. Inspired by her exotic tales as a young woman living in Paris and this entr ...Show more
The Ancestor Game: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1993 by Alex Miller
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The best-selling, 1993 Miles Franklin Award-winning novel from one of Australia's foremost literary writers.
Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Families can detonate. Some families are torn apart forever by one small act, one solitary mistake. In my family it was a series of small explosions; consistent, passionate, pathetic. Cruel words, crude threats...We spurred each other on till we reached a crescendo of pain and we retired exhaused to our ...Show more