Barbara Jefferis Award 2024
The Barbara Jefferis Award is offered biennially for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”. Learn more here.
Days of Innocence and Wonder by Lucy Treloar
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
For all her life, Till, now twenty-three, has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend, and her tormented half-wondering about whether she might have been able to stop it. Finally, at the age of twenty-three, Till flees her past and the hovering presence of her fearful parents. In Wiro ...Show more
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
MACEDONIA, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war.Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal- surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them-Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley-are at the centre ...Show more
Songs for the Dead and the Living by Sara M Saleh
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house above a paint shop on the outskirts of Beirut, with her large, chaotic, loving family. But she soon learns that as Palestinian refugees, her family's life in Lebanon is precarious. Songs for the Dead and the Living is a comingof-age ta ...Show more
Edenglassie: Longlisted for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award by Melissa Lucashenko
32.99 AUD
Category: 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
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize 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 re ...Show more
Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe
32.99 AUD
Category: 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
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