Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Winner of the 2015 American Libraries Association prize for Historical Fiction. A lovely stew of sex, fairytales and, well, sex really. THE AGE. An exquisite rendering of the story behind the Rapunzel fairy tale. Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, ...Show more
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In the history of Australian literature few books have been more controversial than Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory. This is a tale of corruption stretching from street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in the land - and the terrible personal cost of the power such corruption brings. Jo ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a har ...Show more
The White Earth: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2005 by Andrew McGahan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"The saga of the McIvors is nothing less than a grim and supremely entertaining take on colonialism in Australia and the tortured, stained hearts of all its New World cousins. A-."--Entertainment Weekly After his father's death, young William is cast upon the charity of an unknown great-uncle, John Mc ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
MY LIFE AS A FAKE is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning author Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, ...Show more
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
$16.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Hachette Essentials
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 Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied P ...Show more
The Harpy by Megan Hunter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The End We Start From, The Harpy is a fierce tale of love, betrayal and revenge. Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy works from home but devotes her life to the children, to their finely tuned routine, and to the house itse ...Show more
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A bestselling 'Cornish' novel, NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION is a moving, intuitive novel of artistic compulsion, marriage, and the secrets left behind. It was a Richard & Judy bestseller.'Poised and pitch-perfect throughout' Mail on Sunday Celebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studi ...Show more
The Valley of Lost Stories by Vanessa McCausland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Beautiful, beguiling and treacherous ... Big Little Lies meets Picnic at Hanging Rock in a secluded valley over the Blue Mountains. Four women and their children are invited to the beautiful but remote Capertee Valley, west of the Blue Mountains. Once home to a burgeoning mining industry, now all that r ...Show more
The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An extraordinary debut, a story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ... In Berlin, who can you trust? A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ... It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husba ...Show more
The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
In the first year of the doomed German invasion of Russia in WWII, a German military doctor, Paul Bauer, is assigned to establish a field hospital at Yasnaya Polyana - the former grand estate of Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of the classic War and Peace. There he encounters a hostile aristocratic Russia ...Show more
Sheerwater by Leah Swann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Emotional, powerful, unforgettable. From a stunning new literary talent, you won't be able to put down this novel about a mother's love for her children - it will break your heart. Ava and her two young sons, Max and Teddy, are driving to their new home in Sheerwater, hopeful of making a fresh start in ...Show more