Islands by Peggy Frew
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each other. Some of us wailed and shouted; some of us barely made a sound. None of us was l ...Show more
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER 2022 Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman's turbulent life So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or- he'd found Maggie.I had no wa ...Show more
Dyschronia by Jennifer Mills
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A writer of extraordinary range and imagination" Cate Kennedy An electrifying novel about an oracle. A small town. And the end of the world as we know it... One morning, the residents of a small coastal town somewhere in Australia wake to discover the sea has disappeared. One among them has been plague ...Show more
The Lebs: Miles Franklin Literary Award Finalist by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
27.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
A confronting new novel from award winning Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Michael Mohammed Ahmad. 'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and over until finally I shout back, 'Shut up, I have something to say!' They all go quiet and wait for me to explain myself, redeem myself, ...Show more
A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Adam's life has been ruined by war . . . A veteran of the Iraq conflict who has suffered such extensive bodily trauma that he can only really survive by means of a mechanical skeleton.Marianna's has been ruined by men . . . A woman who has had to flee the country after her husband lied to the wrong peop ...Show more
At the Edge of the Solid World by Daniel Davis Wood
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'the tale is made seamless by a tight structure and a hypnotic style that seems to owe something to the work of Gerald Murnane.' Kerryn Goldsworthy Sydney Morning Herald on Blood and Bone In a snowbound village in the heart of the Alps, a husband and wife find their lives breaking apart in the days and ...Show more
No One by John Hughes
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the ghost hours of a Monday morning a man feels a dull thud against the side of his car near the entrance to Redfern Station. He doesn't stop immediately. By the time he returns to the scene, the road is empty, but there is a dent in the car, high up on the passenger door, and what looks like blood. ...Show more
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father''s ...Show more
The Rain Heron (The Age Book of the Year 2021) by Robbie Arnott
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading--and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission. As their lives entw ...Show more
A Sand Archive by Gregory Day
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Long before I ever met him I knew his name from the leaky desiccated type of a grey-brown slim volume, cheaply printed but essential to my research... Seeking stories of Australia's Great Ocean Road, a young writer stumbles across a manual from a minor player in the road's history, FB Herschell. It is a ...Show more
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Fiction
From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism. 'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.' Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upsi ...Show more
Lucky's by Andrew Pippos
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Lucky's is a story of family. It is also about a man called Lucky. His restaurant chain. A fire that changed everything. A New Yorker article which might save a career. The mystery of a missing father. An impostor who got the girl. An unthinkable tragedy. A roll of the dice. And a story of love, lost, s ...Show more