Madukka the River Serpent (Miles Franklin Longlist 2023) by Julie Janson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services.It took her thirty hours to complete online.Now, she has set up her own private investigation service: Yanakirri Investigative Services – Confidentiality Guaranteed.When environmental activist, Thommo, suddenly goes missin ...Show more
One Another by Gail Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Eminent Australian author Gail Jones examines the intersections of art and life via a fictionalised biography of Joseph Conrad in her distinctively immersive and rich prose. At Cambridge University, in the summer of 1992, Australian student Helen is completing her thesis on Joseph Conrad. But she is dis ...Show more
Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, await ...Show more
Red Side Story (Shades of Grey #2) by Jasper Fforde
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find o ...Show more
The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
An international bestseller Over 80 million copies sold worldwide A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of sel ...Show more
The River We Remember (PB) by William Kent Krueger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff ...Show more
Tilda Is Visible: A novel about women, life and being seen by Jane Tara
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A gorgeous, witty and wise novel celebrating older women and what it takes to embrace ourselves as we age, from Better Reading's Jane Tara. 'Pitch-perfect'. Kathy Lette 'There aren't many original story ideas, but Jane Tara has pulled off the almost impossible feat of writing one. Tilda Is Visible is fr ...Show more
Why Do Horses Run? by Cameron Stewart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pain who recognise that in others. He walked not feeling he was connected to the earth, but on the edge of something he couldn't reach. He pushed on through mist and darkness and clutched the blanket tight ...Show more
Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son Owen for time to w ...Show more
Bird Life: a novel by Anna Smaill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The second novel by Booker Prize longlisted author Anna Smaill. A lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and two women meet ...Show more
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
'Body Friend is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.'--Claire Thomas, author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure ...Show more
Breath: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009 by Tim Winton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary 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