Great Australian Reads
A Common Loss
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Read our Q&A with Kirsten Tranter about A Common Loss.
They were originally five. Elliot. Brian.Tallis. Cameron. And Dylan -- charismatic Dylan -- the mediator, the leader, the man each one turned to in a time of cr... Buy or find out more →
Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea Of Home
$24.99$19.95 – Paperback book / Abc Books
For the Boyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent ... Buy or find out more →
Australians Volume 2: Eureka to the Diggers
$59.95$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's wide... Buy or find out more →
Her Father's Daughter
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Read our Q&A with Alice Pung about Her Father's Daughter.
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Unpolished Gem.
At twenty-something, Alice is hungry for the milestones of young womanhood: leaving home, choosi... Buy or find out more →
Forecast Turbulence
$22.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
The turbulent river rushes on.
′Everything flows,′ wrote Heraclitus, ′and nothing stays fixed.′
FORECAST TURBULENCE is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece ... Buy or find out more →
Black Glass
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Tally and Grace are teenage sisters living on the outskirts of society, dragged from one no-hope town to the next by their fugitive father. When an explosion rips their lives apart, they flee separately to the city.
The ... Buy or find out more →
Five Bells
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
An exquisite and moving new novel from this master storyteller.
On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with... Buy or find out more →
Fall Girl
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Meet Ella Canfield, highly qualified evolutionary biologist. Attractive, if a little serious-looking in those heavy glasses—but then she’s about to put her career on the line. Dr Canfield is seeking funding for a highly ... Buy or find out more →
Indelible Ink
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Winner of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Award.
'For a long time now, when people ask me a favourite Australian author, invariably I think and say Fiona McGregor. There is a gutsiness, a splendour and command of language ... Buy or find out more →
A Private Life
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A collection of reminiscences that reaveal the private Michael Kirby. Speaking in his own voice, he opens up as never before in a beautifully written, reflective and generous memoir - one that Michael Kirby's many admire... Buy or find out more →
The Slap (TV Tie-In)
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
To smack or not to smack is the question that reverberates through the interconnected lives dissected in Christos Tsiolkas' award-winning novel, now a prime time ABC TV series, starring Melissa George and Alex Dimitriade... Buy or find out more →
That Deadman Dance
$22.99 – Trade paperback / Picador
Winner of the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In ... Buy or find out more →
When Colts Ran
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
There was nothing more definite when it came to promise than the worn old earth.'
In this sweeping epic of friendship, toil, hope and failed promise, multi-award-wi... Buy or find out more →
Red Dog (Film Tie-In)
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Red Dog is a West Australian, a lovable friendly red kelpie who found widespread fame as a result of his habit of travelling all over Western Australia, hitching rides over thousands of miles, settling in places for mont... Buy or find out more →
The Good, The Bad And The Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes
Since Australia’s birth in 1901, twenty-seven politicians have run the national show. Their time at the top has ranged from eight days for Frank Forde to eighteen years for... Buy or find out more →
Botany Bay: The Real Story
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.
We all know the conventional story. Established as a dumping ground for Britain’s criminals, Australia ... Buy or find out more →
The Book Of Emmett
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Emmett Brown is as dark as Heathcliff, and as unpredictable. Sometimes he's an inspiration, but not often. He's a man of booze and obsessions: one of them is his 'System', an attempt to bend the laws of probability. But ... Buy or find out more →
Jasper Jones
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2009 Indie Book of the Year award.
Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a glorious novel - thoughtful, funny, heartbreaking and wise - about outsider... Buy or find out more →
The Grand Hotel
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Strange things are happening at the Grand Hotel.
'A hotel as a work of art in little ol' Mangowak? It was about as unlikely as an indoor creek.'
Robbed of his zest for life by the absurd innovations of his local council,... Buy or find out more →
The Life: A Novel
$32.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
He looked into the Pacific and the Pacific looked back into him. Malcolm Knox is one of Australian literature's rising stars. No less a literary authority than the Guardian had this to say after Jamaica, Malcolm's third ... Buy or find out more →
Autumn Laing
$40.00$34.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
Read our Q&A with Alex Miller on Autumn Laing
Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the 1930s. Now 'old and skeleton gaunt', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship wit... Buy or find out more →
A Simpler Time
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
A memoir of love, laughter, loss and billycarts. Peter FitzSimons's account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and gene... Buy or find out more →
The Street Sweeper
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Read our Q&A with Elliot Perlman on The Street Sweeper.
How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.
From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanit... Buy or find out more →
Violin Lessons
$29.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
From the songs of Arab diva Umm Khultum on the banks of the Tigris to the strains of a young boy playing the violin for his mother in Melbourne, to the swing jazz of the nightclubs and cabarets of 1940s Baghdad, a fisher... Buy or find out more →
The Eye Of The Storm (Film Tie-In)
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself ... Buy or find out more →
Siddon Rock
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When Macha Connor came home from the war she walked into town as naked as the day she was born, except for well-worn and shining boots, a dusty slouch hat, and the .303 rifle she held across her waist.' Macha patrols Sid... Buy or find out more →