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... 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... 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. 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... More »
Death Of A River Guide
$24.95 (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... 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 ... 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An earlier version of this extremely accomplished first novel won the Victorian Premier's Award for Unpublished Manuscripts in 2003.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 ... 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... 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. 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... More »
Illywhacker
$24.95 (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... More »
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An Imaginary Life
$24.95 (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... 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... 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 ... 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... More »
Power Without Glory
$19.95 (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 ... More »
Selected Stories
$22.95 (Paperback book / Angus And 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... 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 ... More »
