Edenglassie: An extraordinary story of early Brisbane (Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Melissa Lucashenko
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with ...Show more
Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A powerful and important novel with a crucial and timely feminist message, from the Stella Prize-shortlisted author of Little Gods. She tells me to sit down, says that she has something I need to hear and it's that they don't cut hair or set curls. Well they do sometimes, but not always, she says. She ...Show more
Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2013 STEELE RUDD AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 KIBBLE AWARD From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again ...Show more
Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party at their tea plantation in West Java. One of their guests, Mattijs, a Dutch pilot, hopes to forge a future in the Dutch East Indies, ...Show more
The Desert Knows Her Name by Lia Hills
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In this stunning, lyrical novel of nature and history, a girl walks out of the desert and shakes a community to its core. Listen deeply now, if you remember how and why. On a hot October afternoon, a girl walks barefoot out of the Wimmera desert, near the small town of Gatyekarr. She finds sanctuary wi ...Show more
Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
From the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Leap comes an unforgettable new novel about fathers and sons, and the damage that can ripple through generations. 'Frank feared a reckoning, but what he feared more was that all the men in his family were cursed. And that however hard he tried to be good, h ...Show more
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional ( Miles Franklin Longlist 2024) by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary 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
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames. The world is on fire. And what will you do? In a city rocked by global catastrophe, home-grown terrorism, shortages and wildfires, Cass is quietly raising three small children by h ...Show more
Go Lightly: The funny, sharp and heartfelt bisexual love story by Brydie Lee-Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Sharp and funny and humane ... Brydie skewers everyone equally, but always with empathy, warmth and wit.' Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually WHO IS ADA? With Sadie she's an Aussie girl in London, a performer, a ball of creativity and a lover of food. With Stuart she's funny and quirky, capa ...Show more
Hera: Bow down to the Queen of Mount Olympus by Jennifer Saint
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The enthralling tale of a powerful Greek goddess maligned in both myth and ancient history, as told by Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Saint. 'A brilliant read' Women & Home | 'A spirited retelling' Times | 'Beautiful and absorbing' Fabulous | 'A vivid reimagining of Greek mythology' Harpe ...Show more