The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she k ...Show more
The Settlement by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
A career-defining masterpiece by internationally award-winning Australian storyteller Jock Serong On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women.He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, ...Show more
The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
An inspiring work about creativity and resiliance from the multi-award-winning author of The Weekend. 'A rich inner life is not just the preserve of the arts. The joys, fears and profound self-discoveries of creativity - through making or building anything that wasn't there before, any imaginative explo ...Show more
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
$25.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress ...Show more
The Awakening by Nora Roberts
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: The Dragon Heart Legacy 1 | Reading Level: very good
Mists, shimmering silver fingers, rose over the pale green water of the lake. They twined and twisted toward a sky quietly gray, while in the east, over the hills, a pink blush waited, like a held breath, to waken.Breen Kelly had always been a rule follower. So, when her father left when she was twelve ...Show more
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
$45.00 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
'McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read' - Telegraph 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divel ...Show more
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Winner Indie Awards 2022 for FictionFrom the author of the international bestseller Migrations comes a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish HighlandsInti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team tasked with reintroducing fourteen grey wolves into the remote High ...Show more
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: good
A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. In this, his first nove ...Show more
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
$24.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone, slim Chatto hardback for the first time.In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other si ...Show more
Flying the Nest by Rachael Johns
$32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
They say a change is as good as a holiday...but what if you don't want either? Is her family's happiness more important than her own? The first time Ashling Wood realises her marriage is on the rocks is when her husband, Adrian, suggests they try nest parenting. Heartbroken, Ash suddenly finds herself l ...Show more
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
$29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: near fine
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are stil ...Show more
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
$24.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Historical Trilogy Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2006 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZELondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mist ...Show more