50 Great Books By Australian Women In 2012
Sea Hearts
$19.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
A mesmerising selkie novel from multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed Australian author, Margo Lanagan - one of the most exciting voices in speculative fiction. Buy or find out more→
The Convent
$22.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
'I woke up with a feeling about today,' Stella says dreamily. 'Something truly amazing is going to happen.' 'To us or to the world?' I say. 'To you.' 'To me?' I laugh. 'Nothing ever happens to me, Stella.' 'But today it will.'... Buy or find out more→
The Happiness Show
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
‘A funny, feisty read. I was hooked from the first page.’ – Mia Freedman ‘An insightful, lusty and irreverent exploration of love and marriage. A great read.’ –Claudia Karvan She ached for him. She longed for him.... Buy or find out more→
The Fine Colour of Rust
$24.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
Read our Q&A with Paddy O'Reilly about The Fine Colour of Rust. Single mother and dreamer... Buy or find out more→
Sufficient Grace
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Deborah Robertson's interview with Amy Espeseth here. A revealing, evocative, and... Buy or find out more→
Nine Days
$29.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Read our Q&A with Toni Jordan about Nine Days here. It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go... Buy or find out more→
Gough Whitlam: His Time
$39.95 – Hardback / Melbourne University Press
Recreates the excitement of Whitlam's historic win in 1972, forces that never accepted his ascendency &the tragedy that followed. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, interviews with family, colleague sand with the man... Buy or find out more→
Like a House on Fire
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Helen Garner's interview with Cate Kennedy about Like a House on Fire... Buy or find out more→
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
$24.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
My dad, he collects broken things ... Where other people see junk he sees potential ... My dad collects broken people too ... Vincent is nearly forty years old, with little to show for his life except his precious... Buy or find out more→
Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food
$24.95 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
The award-winning author of The Children and Animal People, explores the solitary and shared pleasures of cooking and eating in an ode to good food, prepared and presented with minimum fuss and maximum... Buy or find out more→
A Cook's Life
$39.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
With her Cook's Companion front and centre in half a million kitchens, Stephanie Alexander is the very definition of a household name. Each day thousands turn to this 'food Bible' for definitive recipes, encouragement and... Buy or find out more→
Mateship with Birds
$19.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine,... Buy or find out more→
Sweet Old World
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Read Deborah Robertson's interview with Sian Prior about Sweet Old World. 'He goes down the... Buy or find out more→
Friday Brown
$19.99 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run—running to escape memories of her mother and of the family curse. And of a grandfather who'd like her to stay. She's lost, alone and afraid. Silence, a street kid, finds... Buy or find out more→
After the Darkness
$19.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Trudy and Bruce Harrison have a happy marriage, a successful business, and three teenage children. One fateful day they take the winding coastal route home, and visit the Ocean View Gallery, perched on the cliff edge. It's not... Buy or find out more→
Unnatural Habits
$22.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Phryne is back in a thrilling mystery that takes her into dark convents and dank cellars in a frantic search for missing girls. The decidedly raven-haired Miss Phryne Fisher returns to delve deep into the dark cellars of... Buy or find out more→
Whisky Charlie Foxtrot: A Novel
$24.99 – Paperback / Fremantle Press
It is less than twenty-four hours since Charlie received the phone call from his mother and in those hours his only thought has been that Whisky must not die. He must not die because he, Charlie, needs more time. He and Whisky... Buy or find out more→
In Falling Snow
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Iris is getting old. A widow, her days are spent living quietly and worrying about her granddaughter, Grace, a headstrong young doctor. It's a small sort of life. But one day an invitation comes for Iris through the post to a... Buy or find out more→
My Hundred Lovers
$27.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
Lyrical and exquisite, My Hundred Lovers captures the sheer wonder of life, desire and love. A woman, on the eve of her fiftieth birthday, reflects on her days with one hundred scenes from a life adding up to a simple human... Buy or find out more→
Honestly: Notes on Life
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Gemmell certainly knows how to be controversial' - DAILY TELEGRAPH Celebrating a year of thought - provoking and fascinating columns in THE AUSTRALIAN WEEKEND MAGAZINE, HONESTLY is a collection of writing on a diverse range of... Buy or find out more→
The Mountain
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Read Drusilla Modjeska's interview with Geordie Williamson about The... Buy or find out more→
Scared Yet?
$32.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
Are you paying attention now, Livia? When Livia Prescott fights off a terrifying assault in a deserted car park, the media hail her bravery. And after a difficult year - watching her father fade away, her business struggle and her... Buy or find out more→
Triptych
$29.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
A solitary young woman called Lilly pursues online adventure among the anonymous torsos of Chatroulette, and finds a soul mate. Leda's first love brings tenderness, heartbreak and a powerful sexual awakening at the... Buy or find out more→
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations... Buy or find out more→
Lola Bensky
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
Read our Q&A with Lily Brett about Lola Bensky here. Lola Bensky is a nineteen-year-old rock... Buy or find out more→
Holier Than Thou
$18.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
From the author of Good Oil, this extraordinary, bittersweet novel portrays a slice of Australian city life through an unforgettable girl named Holly who is navigating the nuances and complexities of being in her early 20s. Buy or find out more→
Reaching One Thousand: A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
“This is the best kind of memoir – there is a beautiful calm clarity that drew me in, and held me until the end.” – Georgia Blain When Ben is a baby, Rachel puts his behavioural quirks down to eccentricity. He likes to... Buy or find out more→
The Engagement
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
The gripping, provocative new novel by the acclaimed author of The Tall Man and A Child's Book of True Crime. Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the... Buy or find out more→
Mothers Group The
$29.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
An explosive, enthralling debut novel about motherhood, friendship and love. Buy or find out more→
The Light Between Oceans
$19.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel—the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. In 1918, after four harrowing years on the... Buy or find out more→
Reluctant Hallelujah The
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
But there I go, getting ahead of myself. Skipping straight to the part where I was front-page news and they were calling me Dorothy, instead of starting at the beginning . . . When Dodie's parents go missing just as... Buy or find out more→
Floundering
$27.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Read Romy Ash's interview with Tony Birch about Floundering. Tom and Jordy have been living with their gran... Buy or find out more→
Bitter Greens
$32.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
Charlotte-Rose de la Force, exiled from King Louis XIV's court, has always been a great teller of tales. Selena Leonelli, once the exquisite muse of Tiziano, is terrified of time. Margherita, trapped in a doorless tower and... Buy or find out more→
Miles Off Course
$22.99 – Paperback / Pantera Press
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. Buy or find out more→
The Mistake
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
We all have secrets… Jodie Garrow is a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks when she falls pregnant. Scared, alone and desperate to make something of her life, she adopts out the baby illegally– and... Buy or find out more→
Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
In this dazzling piece of reportage, Anna Krien investigates the contemporary animal kingdom and our place in it. From pets to food, from wildness to science experiments, Krien also reveals how animals are faring in this new world... Buy or find out more→
Assassin
$29.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
How far would you go for revenge? For survival?Former model turned forensic psychologist and PI Mak Vanderwall is missing, presumed dead in Paris. By hiring a hit man to kill her, the powerful and corrupt Cavanagh family... Buy or find out more→
Pilgrimage
$29.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
At forty-nine, Celeste has left behind the religion of her childhood, but her mother, Patricia, remains a devout Catholic. When Patricia is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Celeste reluctantly agrees to accompany her mother and... Buy or find out more→
Losing It
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
To avoid Losing It in the bushes with some random guy in a heavy-metal T-shirt after too many tequila shots, four best friends make a bet: to lose it before schoolies week and preferably in a romantic, sober way that they won't... Buy or find out more→
Find and Keep: 26 Projects to Spark Your Imagination
$39.95 – Hardback / Hardie Grant Books
A stunning craft book filled with unique and fresh ideas and bright, beautiful photography. Sick of all those dowdy, generic craft books? Be inspired with Beci Orpin’s beautiful new book, Find & Keep, with projects that are... Buy or find out more→
Get Well Soon!: My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse
$24.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
My quest for a career started early, when I was four years old and gave myself a haircut to see if I liked that sort of thing. I liked it plenty, but my mother did not. Buy or find out more→
Toyo: A Memoir
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Toyo learned to ask nothing, to wait and count the days. But they passed and passed and still the doorway remained empty of his deep voice, calling out her name. Blending the intimacy of memoir with an artist's... Buy or find out more→
Fishing for Tigers
$29.99 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal... Buy or find out more→
Crimwife: An Insider's Account of Love Behind Bars
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
'It's so sad,' she told me, 'because you could have been something. You could have gotten to the top. You're smart enough. But now you're going to end up as just another dirty, scummy, rotten crimwife.' How far would you... Buy or find out more→
The Rest is Weight
$19.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
The award-winning stories in The Rest is Weight reflect Mills' years in Central Australia, as well as her travels to Mexico, Russia and China. The collection displays a confident diversity of narrative voices and a brevity in... Buy or find out more→
One Way or Another: The Story of a Girl Who Loved Rock Stars
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
‘A great Australian rock ’n’ roll read’ – Steve Kilbey In 1981, fifteen-year-old Nikki McWatters is living in a Gold Coast suburb, dragging herself through humdrum schooldays and dreaming of losing her virginity to a... Buy or find out more→
Tarcutta Wake
$19.95 – Paperback / University of Queensland Press
This collection announces the arrival of an exciting new talent in Australian fiction In short vignettes and longer stories, Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: souvenirs and scars, or memories, values and... Buy or find out more→
The Secret Keeper
$35.00 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
In a bucolic English summer at the end of the 1960s, a young girl witnesses a shocking crime. Fifty years later, she sets out to find out the truth, uncovering layers of mystery and deception. Moving from London during the... Buy or find out more→
What Katie Ate
$49.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Wildly successful food blogger and photographer Katie Quinn Davies' debut book, What Katie Ate, is a collection of simple and mouth-watering recipes made from seasonal ingredients, including much-loved classics from her blog,... Buy or find out more→
Am I Black Enough for You?
$34.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author... Buy or find out more→