Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: good-very good
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
As the River Runs by Stephen Scourfield
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the Kimberley region of Australia, water is plentiful, but in the city, it is precious and political. Government minister Michael Money has cooked up a secret plan to bring water from the monsoonal north of Australia to the south, but he needs to find out what opposition he might face around the rive ...Show more
From the Wreck by Jane Rawson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton
'It's hard to find the right words to praise this novel. I think we need a whole new critical vocabulary to be invented. Rawson recreates a vanished historical world with utterly convincing characters as well as inhabits the mind of a cephalopod alien and make us feel, in both cases, yes, that's exactly ...Show more
Storyland by Catherine McKinnon
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
'This land is a forever land. The clock ticks to a different time.'Set on the banks of Lake Illawarra and spanning four centuries, Storyland is a remarkable and moving novel about who we are and our connection to this land.Telling the stories of five very different people, Storyland weaves together a co ...Show more
The White Earth by Andrew McGahan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
"The saga of the McIvors is nothing less than a grim and supremely entertaining take on colonialism in Australia and the tortured, stained hearts of all its New World cousins. A-."--Entertainment Weekly After his father's death, young William is cast upon the charity of an unknown great-uncle, John Mc ...Show more
Rain Music by Di Morrissey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Di writes about the Australia she knows, she loves, she's explored. Rain Music is inspired by her adventures in Far North Queensland - its characters, its forgotten history, its modern dilemmas. Brother and sister Ned and Bella Chisholm are struggling with a family tragedy that has set them on opposite ...Show more
Crimes of the Father by Tom Keneally
$30.99 AUD
$32.99 (6% off)
Category: Literary Ficton
A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. Tom Keneally, ex-seminarian, pulls no punches as he interrogates the terrible damage done to innocents as the Catholic Church has prevaricated around language and points of law, covering up for its own. Ex-communic ...Show more
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
$23.99 AUD
Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: near fine
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impre ...Show more
Red Dirt Talking (Miles Franklin longlist 2013) by Jacqueline Wright
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Set in the outback of Western Australia, this novel centers around the disappearance of Kuj, an eight-year-old girl, during a bitter custody battle. Annie, an anthropology graduate newly arrived from the city, is increasingly distracted from her work by the mysterious event. As Annie searches for the tr ...Show more
The Dangers of Truffle Hunting by Sunni Overend
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Fiction
True desires will be unearthed … For readers of Gourmet Traveller, Lena Dunham and Joanne Harris, a delightful sexy story that spans the Australian wine country, the French provinces and hip inner Melbourne. Kit Gossard's life is neatly mapped out. A secure photographic job. A partner ready to commit. A ...Show more
Saltwater by Cathy McLennan
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian
'Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent ... your dilemma is not whether the kids are innocent, but which of the kids are innocent.'When Cathy McLennan first steps into Townsville's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service as a young graduate she isn't expecting a major murder cas ...Show more