Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
$23.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
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 impress ...Show more
Breath by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
He asked the water to lift him, to carry him, to avenge him. He made his muscles shape his fury, made every stroke declare his hate. And the water obeyed; the water would give him his revenge. No one could beat him, no one came close...His whole life, Danny Kelly's only wanted one thing: to win Olympic ...Show more
Cyanide Games: A Peter Tanner Thriller by Richard Beasley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'A cracking read' Sydney Morning Herald How far would you go to save a friend? When Melissa Cheung's husband is arrested in China for corruption, her first call is to Peter Tanner. As a criminal defence barrister, Tanner often crosses paths with some of the most evil but wealthy members of the nation ...Show more
Red Dirt Talking (Miles Franklin longlist 2013) by Jacqueline Wright
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
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 Beauties and Furies: Text Classics by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
"The express flew towards Paris over the flooded March swamps. In a parlour-car, the melancholy dark young woman looked out persistently at the sand-dunes, cement-mills, pines, the war-cemetery with stone banners like folded umbrellas, the fields under water, the bristling ponds with deserted boats and ...Show more
The Strays by Emily Bitto
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: 2015 Stella Prize
The winner of the 2015 Stella Prize has been reformatted in a gorgeous hardback with a jacket cover, just in time for Christmas.On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservat ...Show more
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of ...Show more
Nine Days by Toni Jordan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business - your own and everyone else's - as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most ...Show more