New Animal by Ella Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'Ella Baxter's debut novel is drenched in sex and death . . . there's also much love . . . An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness to violence in an equal scale.' - Sydney Morning Herald. Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family's funeral parlour, doi ...Show more
The Work by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The intersections between art, life, power and privilege are explored in this first work of fiction from the bestselling author of Eggshell Skull. Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying off. Pat is a scholarship boy desperate to establish himse ...Show more
I Give My Marriage A Year (TPB) by Holly Wainwright
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
How far would you go to save your marriage? Lou and Josh have been together for 14 years. They share two kids, a mortgage, careers and plenty of history. Now, after a particularly fraught Christmas, Lou is ready to ask herself: is this marriage worth hanging on to? Every month for a year, Lou sets a dif ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In one terrible moment Jaxie Clackton's life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There's just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he'll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only ...Show more
Hydra (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Adriane Howell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'From the treacherous auction houses of Melbourne to the sun-struck islands of Greece, Hydra took me places I never expected to go. Adriane Howell writes with the dreamy precision of Marguerite Duras, the humour-laced disquiet of Patricia Highsmith. A fever dream of a debut - elegant, savage, and deligh ...Show more
Shadowboxing by Tony Birch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
COMMENDED FOR THE 2011 KATE CHALLIS RAKA AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 QUEENSLAND PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS -- AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rend ...Show more
Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in th ...Show more
Women and Children (HB) by Tony Birch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, spending his days trying to avoid trouble with the nuns at the local Catholic primary school. One evening his Aunty Oona appears on the doorstep, distressed and needing somewhere to stay. As his mum and ...Show more
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionar ...Show more
Bodies of Light: Winner of the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Jennifer Down
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2022 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD Shortlisted, Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2022Shortlisted, Stella Prize, 2022Shortlisted, Fiction, The Age Book of the Year Award, 2022Shortlisted, Barbara Jefferis Award, 2022Shortlisted, Adult crime novels, Sisters in Crime Davitt Awar ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner Indie Awards Fiction 2023 'I loved this book so much - an important book, gorgeous, full of love' Ann Patchett 'Thrilling... a book about the power and pain of words' New York Times 'Everyone should read Geraldine Brooks' Guardian A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, an ...Show more
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from a working-class background to be at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. Her masterful line of questioning in the courtroom has netted Tessa win after win, f ...Show more