The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second W ...Show more
The White Earth: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2005 by Andrew McGahan
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
"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
Black Rock White City: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 by A. S. Patric
$29.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Black Rock White City is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of love. During a hot Melbourne summer Jovan's cleaning work at a bayside hospital is disrupted by acts of graffiti and violence becoming increasingly malevolent. For Jovan the mysterious words that must be cle ...Show more
Truth by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: crime & thriller
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore, winner of the Gold Dagger for ...Show more
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Glenroy Ser.
One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces his Melbourne suburb one hundred years old. That same morning, Rita is awakened by a dream of her husband's snores, yet it is years since Vic moved north. Their son, Michael, has left for the city, and ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
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
Breath by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
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
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
$32.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
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
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
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Category: fiction a-z
It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish. His wife is a cheat, his kids are a source of shame, his company spruiks carcinogens. While Harry is resuscitated he will never be the same, for having seen his own misery, he can no lon ...Show more
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Winner of the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, and shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize, The Life to Come is a powerful novel that effortlessly blends sharp satire of the literary world with deeply compassionate portraits of lonely people and their strategies for survival.
Dark Palace (#2 Edith Trilogy) by Frank Moorhouse
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z | Series: Edith Trilogy
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award.Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early Grand Dayshas been eroded by a sense foreboding as the world moves ever closer t ...Show more