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
Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2016 QUEENSLAND PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZE Outside, the rain continues unceasing; silver sheets sluicing down ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
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
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him enough money to buy a small boat. His two brothers are away at war, their whereabouts unknown. His father and older sister struggle to hold things together on the family orchard, Limberlost. Desperate to ig ...Show more
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 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
Ordinary Gods and Monsters by Chris Womersley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It could have been any summer's evening, but of course it wasn't.It was the end of some things, the beginning of so many others.Nick Wheatley has finished high school, but he isn't ready for the rest of his life. His parents are getting divorced, his sister is downright weird and his best friend and nei ...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
The Vanishing Point by Andrea Hotere
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A dazzling and spellbinding debut about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two women connected across centuries by a quest to discover the truth - for readers of Geraldine Brooks, Tracy Chevalier and Maggie O'Farrell. London, 1991: Alex Johns, an art intern at the Courtauld, believes a ...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
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more