Australian Women's Fiction
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 →
Picnic At Hanging Rock
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
On St Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return... Buy or find out more →
My Brilliant Career
$22.95 – Paperback book / Broadview Press
Written by a teenager living in the Australian bush in the 1890s and originally published in 1901, Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career is a candid representation of the aspirations and frustrations of a young woman cons... Buy or find out more →
Battlers
$22.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The award-winning tale of the motley crowd of travelling 'battlers'.
The Battlers is the story of Snow - a drifter and wanderer; Dancy - a hard-bitten young woman; and the crowd that accompanies them as they travel the r... Buy or find out more →
Tirra Lirra By The River
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Nora Porteous has spent most of her life waiting to escape. Fleeing from her small-town family and then from her stifling marriage to a mean-spirited husband, Nora arrives finally in London where she creates a new life f... Buy or find out more →
It's Raining In Mango
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
One family traced from the 1860s to the 1980s, beginning with Cornelius Laffey, an Irish-born journalist. Wresting his kin from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, he takes them to northern Queensland where tho... Buy or find out more →
Gilgamesh
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
The Age Fiction Book of the Year - 2002
Edith and Frances, living with their mother on a tiny farm in the south-west of Australia, are visited by their cousin Leopold and his Armenian friend Aram. The two young men are t... Buy or find out more →
Sorry
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: in a shack in the wilderness... Buy or find out more →
Careless
$0.00 – Paperback book / Macmillan
On the title page of Careless is a photo of Fallingwater, that iconic dwelling built on a waterfall by Frank Lloyd Wright, whose life was marred by personal tragedy. Pearl copies this image as she waits in her therapist’... Buy or find out more →
Idea of Perfection
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Douglas Cheesman is 55 years old, and the kind of man you would definitely not look at twice. But he can tell you more than you'll ever want to know about bridges. Harley Savage, big and plain, is a thrice-married woman ... Buy or find out more →
The Man Who Loved Children
$28.95 – Paperback book / Picador
With an Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watc... Buy or find out more →
Thorn Birds
$19.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
You really think Meggie doesn‘t love you? She doesn‘t want Luke, she wants a father for the children. All you would have to do is say one word and she would be with you in a heartbeat.
Remember Meggie, and Father Ral... Buy or find out more →
Year Of Wonders
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Fourth Estate
Read by TBA
In 1666, a young woman comes of age during an extraordinary year of love and death.
The Alphabet Sisters
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Sisters are always there for each other . . .aren't they?
Anna, Bett and Carrie were childhood singing stars – the Alphabet Sisters. As adults they haven't spoken for years. Not since Bett's fiance left her for another s... Buy or find out more →
Fog Garden
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Deeply moving, highly original and beautifully written ... a
brave and brilliant display, stolen from death and grief, which
transforms the shreds of everyday life into art.' Sally Blakeney,
The Bulletin
'A rich, dynamic... Buy or find out more →
The Dressmaker
$22.00 – Paperback book / Duffy & Snellgrove
Reissued with a new cover to coincide with the release of Summer at Mount Hope.
After twenty years away, Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage returns to Dungatar. Dungatar is a small country town, where the townspeople's eccentricitie... Buy or find out more →
Transit Of Venus
$22.99 – Paperback book / Virago
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by a young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passio... Buy or find out more →
Bobbin Up
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vulgar Press
Forty years after its first publicaton and several European translations Bobbin Up, a classic of industrial fiction, is coming home. This document of urban working-class life in 1950s Australia is also a remarkably well ... Buy or find out more →
Last Magician
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Listed in: Best of the Year, Weekend Australian Most Notable Books of 1992, New York Times Best Books of 1992, Publishers Weekly
This superb novel is richly textured and intellectually challenging, a tour de force from o... Buy or find out more →
How The Light Gets In
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
I have read somewhere that a sheep raised by dogs will eventually learn to chase cars. But how long does it take to learn the tricks of another animal? How long will I need to live with the Hardings before I unlearn the ... Buy or find out more →
The Orchard
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
'In The Orchard [Modjeska] further develops her distinctive style, weaving fact with fiction, the essay with a flowing fictional narrative, and stories within stories . . . Modjeska is accessible and entertaining, a good... 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 Submerged Cathedral
$19.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
‘Set me as a seal on your heart, for love is stronger than death.’ Spanning many years, travelling across Australia’s vast continent and through some of Europe’s great cities, The Submerged Cathedral is a beguili... Buy or find out more →