Ambulance Girls by Deborah Burrows
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
On duty during London's Blitz...As death and destruction fall from the skies day after day in the London Blitz, Australian ambulance driver, Lily Brennan, confronts the horror with bravery, intelligence, common sense and humour. Amid the chaos, Lily begins to suspect that someone at her Ambulance Statio ...Show more
The Drover's Wife: A Collection by Frank Moorhouse
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Since Henry Lawson wrote his story 'The Drover's Wife' in 1892, Australian writers, painters, performers and photographers have created a wonderful tradition of Drover's Wife works, stories and images.The Russell Drysdale painting from 1945 has become an Australian icon.Other versions of the Lawson stor ...Show more
The Red Coast by Di Morrissey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Di Morrissey returns to the red earth of the Kimberley with a passionate story of resistance and resilience under its soaring blue skies.After the upheaval which separated Jacqui Bouchard from her beloved son, she has finally settled in Broome, a magical remote town on the northwest coast of Australia. ...Show more
The Heartwood Hotel by Kerry McGinnis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
'The Heartwood is the core of this district. It always has been so, but it's still just a building. It's your family - you and Adam and old Tiger - who animate it, keep the heart beating, so to speak.' In the abandoned railhead town of Tewinga, now almost a ghost town, Lyn and Adam Portman struggle to ...Show more
You Be Mother by Meg Mason
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
"What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? A charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies. The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pa ...Show more
Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
"A Guide to Berlin" is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty apartments in Berlin to share stories and memories. Eac ...Show more
Canvas by Sarah Hope
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Canvas, is the sparkling debut novel by Sarah Hope, and readers will relish in her deft literary telling of loves, lives and Australian history. It¿s January 2006, and Alice McKinley has a big problem. Her grandmother, Cecily, has bequeathed her Dunedin, the family¿s crumbling pastoral estate in Victori ...Show more
Little Stones by Elizabeth Kuiper
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Hannah lives in Zimbabwe during the reign of Robert Mugabe- it's a country of petrol queues and power cuts, food shortages and government corruption. Yet Hannah is lucky. She can afford to go to school, has never had to skip a meal, and lives in a big house with her mum and their Shona housekeeper. Hann ...Show more
Ache by Eliza Henry-Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
The much anticipated new novel - about how a family, and a rural community, recover from a terrible bushfire - from much loved and critically acclaimed writer, Eliza Henry Jones. A year ago, a devastating bushfire ripped Annie's world apart - killing her grandmother, traumatising her young daughter and ...Show more
Congo Dawn by Katherine Scholes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
From internationally celebrated author, and inspired by real events, this is a landmark novel about good and evil, and the inexhaustible power of love. 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 rebe ...Show more
Lake Hill by Margareta Osborn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
All her life Julia Gunn has been weighed down - first by a controlling father, then by a staid older husband, and always by a long-buried secret from her teenage years. Now, widowed at just thirty-six, she's going to do something for herself. Except en route to a new life on the coast at Lakes Entrance ...Show more
A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Literature
Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to remote Scotland with a piece of experimental tech that allows him to enter the mind of someone in the past. Instructed to only use it three times, Jeff - self-indulgent, isolated and deteriorating - ignores t ...Show more