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... 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... More »
My Brilliant Career
$19.95 (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... 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 »
Its 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... 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 ... More »
Newspaper Of Claremont Street
$18.95 (Paperback book / Freemantle Press )
The Newspaper of Claremont Street is the story of an old cleaning woman, known as Weekly, or 'The Newspaper.' Unknown to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works, Weekly dreams of escape - escape from the par... More »
Man Who Loved Children
$41.95 (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... 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... More »
Year Of Wonders
$27.95 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )
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The Service Of Clouds
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
The year the Hydro Majestic Hotel failed as a hydropathic institute Harry Kitchings fell in love with the air and stayed. Les Curtain began to feel the dusk in his lungs. It was a romantic year. Men carried thermometers ... More »
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... More »
Fog Garden
$22.95 (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... More »
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... 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... More »
Last Magician
$24.00 (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... More »
How The Light Gets In
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
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 ... More »
Moral Hazard
$22.00 (Paperback book / Picador )
In the world of high finance, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. She's in a unique position to note this fact. A confirmed liberal who can scarcely contain her own sarcastic wit, she is... More »
Harp In The South Novels
$30.00 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Long favourites with generations of Australian readers, Ruth Park's classic Harp in the South novels have at last been brought together in one volume. The saga of the Darcy family has its beginnings in the dusty outback.... 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 »
Wing Of Night
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
In 1915 a troopship of Light Horsemen sails from Fremantle for the Great War. Two women farewell their men: Elizabeth, with her background of careless wealth, and Bonnie, who is marked by the anxieties of poverty. Neithe... More »
The Submerged Cathedral
$23.95 (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 beguiling, he... More »
Carpentaria
$26.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
Set in the small, isolated town of Desperance on the Gulf of Carpentaria, Alexis Wright’s second novel conjures up a sweeping and poetic panorama of life in a town that seems a world away from modern civilisation. And ye... More »