Australian Fiction Classics
The Art Of The Engine Driver
$22.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The Art of the Engine Driver is the story of one evening in the lives of the residents of a new outer Melbourne suburb. As a mighty steam train leaves Spencer Street Station on its haul to Sydney, a family of three – Vic... Buy or find out more →
Bodysurfers
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestsel... Buy or find out more →
The Book Thief
$19.95 – Paperback book / Picador
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family... Buy or find out more →
Cloudstreet
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch. For twenty years they r... Buy or find out more →
Death Of A River Guide
$0.00 – Paperback book / Picador
Explores love, redemption, rage, pain, laughter and loss. A drowning guide on the Franklin River relives his life, and that of his family and forebears. In the flood of his past Aljaz discovers the soul history of his co... Buy or find out more →
Eucalyptus
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
On a property in western New South Wales a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young ... Buy or find out more →
Everyman's Rules For Scientific Living
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
An earlier version of this extremely accomplished first novel won the Victorian Premier's Award for Unpublished Manuscripts in 2003. Now here it is in its final polished form and it's a treat. Funny, warm, wise, sad and ... Buy or find out more →
The First Stone
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college... Buy or find out more →
For The Term Of His Natural Life
$19.95 – Paperback book / New Holland Pub
First published in 1874, a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper. Buy or find out more →
The Getting Of Wisdom
$16.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
The Getting of Wisdom was first published in 1910 and has continued to sell well. Germaine Greer’s introduction, of course, makes this new handsome edition even more appealing to the reader.
Described by H. G. Wells as... Buy or find out more →
Illywhacker
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king... Buy or find out more →
An Imaginary Life
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In the first century A. D. , Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of out most distinguish... Buy or find out more →
Monkey Grip
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. In this acclaimed first novel, Helen Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends who are living and loving i... Buy or find out more →
My Brillant Career And My Career Goes Bung
$24.95 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman.
You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.'
With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome
suitor that she is given to writing ... Buy or find out more →
My Brother Jack
$22.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
"You're growing up to be a real bloody little wowser," he would say with an angry contempt, and I would blush to the roots of my hair, for in Jack's bawdy and colourful lexicon "wowser" was the most despicable form of hu... Buy or find out more →
Power Without Glory
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In the history of Australian literature few books have been so controversial than Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory.This is a tale of corruption stretching from street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in ... Buy or find out more →
Selected Stories
$27.99 – Paperback book / Angus & Robertson
This newly compiled collection showcases some of the very best of Henry Lawson's short fiction. All the favourites are here, essential selections from the books While the billy boils; On the Track; Over the Sliprails; Jo... Buy or find out more →
Tirra Lirra By The River
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Liza used to say that she saw her past life as a string of roughly-graded balls, and so did Hilda have a linear conception of hers, thinking of it as a track with detours. But for some years now I have likened mine to a ... Buy or find out more →
Voss
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feel... Buy or find out more →