Five Bells by Gail Jones
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Kibble Literary Award, Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, The ALS Gold Medal, the Barbara Jefferiss Prize and the Indies Award.On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera Hou ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Suffused with beauty and tenderness and shot through with self-deprecating humour and frailty. Grace is taking a break from writing a long novel and seems to be losing her grip on daily life in London. She feels more and more like a migratory bird as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life in Engl ...Show more
Rohypnol by Andrew Hutchinson
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fact: bad people do bad things. In the new age of money, drugs, and instant satisfaction, you make your own rules. You take what you want--not ask. There is no responsibility. There is no guilt. If someone burns you, you should do the same to them. It's an issue of equality. Andrew Hutchinson brilliantl ...Show more
The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Trout Operais a stunning epic novel that encompasses twentieth-century Australia.Opening with a Christmas pageant on the banks of the Snowy River in 1906 and ending with the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, it is the story of simple rabbiter and farmhand Wilfred Lampe who, at the end ...Show more
The Golden Age by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the ...Show more
Gilgamesh by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gilgameshis the epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia - all under the shadow of the imminent, and soon to be very real, Second World War. Narrated in a clear, poetic voice, it is a portrayal of the different journeys we choose ...Show more
The New Dark Age by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A young singer runs into the desert of gold rush Kalgoorlie; Chagall comes to Paris in the twenties; a hippie couple survey their ideals as Whitlam is deposed; a middle-aged man looks at his life after cancer on the eve of the millennium . . . Fourteen luminous stories from Joan London's award-winning c ...Show more
The Good Parents by Joan London
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2009 Christina Stead Award for fictionMaya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya's parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive to stay with her, they ...Show more
Giovanna's Navel by Ernest Van der Kwast
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A scintillating collection from the award-winning author of The Ice-Cream Makers and Mama Tandoori.The vivid characters in these stories share lives marked by coincidences, deeply felt passions, impulsive decisions, and missed opportunities. There's Ezio, a lonely apple-picker dangerously obsessed with ...Show more
Dunstan: One Man. Seven Kings. England's Bloody Throne. by Conn Iggulden
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
** 'Iggulden has created an intriguingly complex saint - flawed, spiteful and unreliable as the teller of his own tale. Through his eyes we watch the story of the making of England' The Times **From the critically acclaimed master of historical fiction Conn Iggulden, comes a novel set in the red-blooded ...Show more
Congo Dawn by Katherine Scholes
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
You can't go back and change the past. All you have left is the future.Melbourne secretary Anna Emerson's life is turned upside down when a stranger hands her a plane ticket to the Congo. The newly independent country is in turmoil, Simba rebels are on the move - but the invitation holds a precious clue ...Show more
The Rising Sea (The NUMA Files #15) by Clive Cussler; Graham Brown
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\NUMA Files Ser.
A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Novel from the Numa® FilesAn alarming rise in the world's sea levels -- much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt -- sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they fi ...Show more