The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships- her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itse ...Show more
The Vivisector by Patrick White
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
This Patrick White masterpieceHurtle Duffield, a painter, is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision- his sister's deformity, a ...Show more
The Commonwealth Of Thieves by Tom Keneally
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally.In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens - uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen - to the fringes of the known world. So remot ...Show more
The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Berlin, 1938. The eve of war. Ernst Schafer, a young, ambitious zoologist, keen hunter and devoted husband of the beautiful Herta, has come to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who invites him to lead a group of SS scientists to the frozen mountains of Tibet. Their secret mission - to search for the or ...Show more
First Person by Richard Flanagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal- $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghost write his memoir in six weeks.But as the wr ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Filled with the lyrical genius that has earned Winton international acclaim and a loyal readership worldwide, Breath is the coming-of-age story of two thrill-seeking boys who surf for danger of all kinds on the untamed coast of Western Australia. As the two boys fall under the thrall of Sando, a veteran ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther ...Show more
Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman, Elliot Perlman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.'Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he's in i ...Show more
Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.' Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he's in ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Carey Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hyp ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia's national character, especially in its fondness for tall stories and questionable history.As this charming scoundrel traverses the continent and a century's wort ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in ...Show more