Cosmo Cosmolino - Text Classics by Helen Garner; Ramona Koval (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
'Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia.'Bulletin Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing of ukel ...Show more
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation.....This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and characters that will never let you go...'...there is ...Show more
The Safest Place in London by Maggie Joel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
On a frozen January evening in 1944, Nancy Levin, and her three-year-old daughter, Emily, flee their impoverished East London home as an air raid siren sounds. Not far away, 39-year-old Diana Meadows and her own child, three-year-old Abigail, are lost in the black-out as the air raid begins. Finding the ...Show more
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Good. Slight yellowing/foxing on edges of pages. "A Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century" (Prism Magazine), Wood's dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian ...Show more
The Doctor Calling by Meredith Appleyard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When one choice can lead to triumph or failure, life or death, glory or destruction . . . what will you choose? With Choose the Future, YOU decide how, when, where and with whom the Doctor will fight to save the world! In this brand new adventure, Night of the Kraken, the Twelfth Doctor meets a roguish ...Show more
The Garden of Sorrows by John Hughes and Marco Luccio
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Fourteen mesmerising fables and the etchings they inspired draw us back to our origins in a garden of sorrow and exile, death and renewal, beauty and melancholy. John Hughes re-imagines a series of fables in which Australian animals take on human qualities, as thief and actor, warrior and poet, farmer a ...Show more
Last Chance Cafe by Liz Byrski
$18.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Margot detests shopping malls. Any distraction is welcome, and the woman, who has chained herself to the escalator, shouting about the perils of consumerism, is certainly that. She recognises Dot immediately--from their time campaigning for women's rights, and further back still, to the heyday of the Sy ...Show more
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. Th ...Show more
The Idea of Perfection: Text Classics by Kate Grenville
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfectionis the story of the small town of Karakarook, and of Douglas Cheeseman and Harley Savage--two people who seem the least likely in the world to fall in love. Unlike Felicity Porcelline, a woman dangerously haunted by the idea of perfection ...Show more
Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"An exquisite meditation on motherhood, marriage and the meaning of home." --The New York TimesIn the tradition of The Hours and Revolutionary Road comes a "beautifully written and atmospheric" (Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites) novel set in England, Australia, and India in the early 1960s.Cambridge, ...Show more
An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose apparent easygoing nature conceals hard-won wi ...Show more
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbit, that whined and creaked like a wire pulled too tight.'It is the winter of 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls ...Show more