The Perfumer's Secret by Fiona McIntosh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"I am at one with Nature's perfection - her beauty, her colours, her fragrances - and she has allowed me to glimpse it in a man.' On the eve of the First World War, Fleurette, the only daughter of the wealthy Delacroix perfume dynasty, is being forced to marry a man she loathes, Aimery De Lasset, head o ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
$9.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction - the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she dec ...Show more
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"If you read only one book this year, make sure it's this" (The Sunday Times, London): An award-winning debut novel from a rising star in Australia--a hauntingly beautiful story about the bond of brotherhood and the fragility of youth. Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coas ...Show more
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It is rare to find a debut novel as sophisticated, beautiful, and gripping as this one. The desolation of the harsh Icelandic winter is felt in the very bones, it's so hauntingly descriptive. The feelings of despair & the depth of fear are such, that I was almost holding my breath at times. A brilli ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
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
Dog Boy: Text Classics by Eva Hornung; Yann Martel (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2010Introduced by Yann MartelAbandoned in a big city at the onset of winter, a hungry four-year-old boy follows a stray dog to her lair. There in the rich smelly darkness, in the rub of hair, claws and teeth, he joins four puppies suckling at their mother's ...Show more
Sapphire Skies by Belinda Alexandra
$19.98 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A love greater than war. A beautiful woman lost. A mystery unsolved ...until now. The epic new saga from one of Australia's best loved storytellers. 2000: The wreckage of a downed WWII fighter plane is discovered in the forests near Russia's Ukrainian border. The aircraft belonged to Natalya Azarova, ac ...Show more
The Woman Next Door by Liz Byrski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"The doyenne of women's fiction" West Australian Over the years, the residents of Emerald Street have become more than just neighbours, they have built lasting friendships over a drink and chat on their back verandahs. Now a new chapter begins with the children having left home. Helen and Dennis have mo ...Show more
Charlie Anderson's General Theory of Lying by Richard McHugh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
You will recognise somebody you know in this rollicking Tour De Force. For better or worse, you may even recognize yourself . . . Charlie Anderson is sure of himself. He's sure he's the best consultant in town. He's completely sure his clever wife Anna, in line to be the first female CEO in the Bank's h ...Show more
The Marmalade Files by Steve Lewis; Chris Uhlmann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Secret City Ser.
Soon to be a major TV series from the team behind The Slap A sticky scandal. A political jam. An imaginative romp through the dark underbelly of politics by two veteran Canberra insiders. *The Marmalade Files are documents that allegedly exist within the bowels of Foreign Affairs & Trade that have b ...Show more
We Ate the Road Like Vultures by Lynnette Lounsbury
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Fiction novel