Runt by Craig Silvey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones and Honeybee. 'You don't have to carry the weight of the world in your tool belt.' Annie Shearer lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called R ...Show more
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Gripis regarded as a masterpiece - the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, ...Show more
The Visitors by Jane Harrison
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Visitors is an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imaging of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction. On a steamy, hot day in January 1788, seven Aboriginal men, Elder statesmen representing the nearby clans, gather at Warrane. Several newly arrived ...Show more
The Labyrinth: Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Amanda Lohrey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating ...Show more
The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors.There was a piano in the kitchen and during the day Athena would shut herself in there under the portrait of Dexter's father and pick away at Bartok's Mikrokosmos or the easiest of Bach's Small Preludes. Preludes to w ...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
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hu ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
* WINNER OF THE 2022 STELLA PRIZE *An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconograph ...Show more
The End of the Morning by Charmian Clift
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time — symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped co ...Show more
The Rain Heron (Winner of the Age Book of the Year 2021) by Robbie Arnott
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
From a 2019 Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year and the author of the highly praised novel Flames, comes another beguiling, transformative work of fiction confirming Robbie Arnott as one of Australia's most exciting writers.Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more