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Gail Jones

$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... More »

The Widow And Her Hero
Tom Keneally

$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

I knew in general terms I was marrying a hero. The burden lay lightly on Leo, and to be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt. The Japanese had barely been turned away. It... More »

The Time We Have Taken
Steven Carroll

$27.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken, our moment.'

One summer morning in 1970, Peter van Rijn, proprietor of the television and wireless shop, pronounces ... More »

Love Without Hope
Rodney Hall

$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )

The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her c... More »

Secrets Of The Sea
Nicholas Shakespeare

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. Twelve years on, he must return to Australia to deal with his... More »

The Memory Room
Christopher Koch

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )

What is a spy? Are they born, or are they made?' With these words, Vincent Austin analyses his future occupation. Some spies are made, he says, but his kind is born. He is devoted to secrecy for its own sake. Vincent is ... More »

Orpheus Lost
Hospital Janette Turner

$33.00 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )

In the myth, Orpheus travels to the underworld to rescue Eurydice from certain death – a rescue compelled by his determination and his belief in their shared life. Along the way the question arises: what would you risk f... More »

The Fern Tattoo
David Brooks

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )

Ten years after his mother’s death in an accident on the Hume Highway near Canberra, Benedict Waters is contacted by Mrs Darling, who claims to be an old friend of his mother’s. Several years later, he at last agrees to ... More »

Landscape Of Farewell
Alex Miller

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )

A hauntingly beautiful meditation on the land, the past, exile and friendship, Landscape of Farewell is the powerful new novel from acclaimed Australian author, Alex Miller. It is the story of Max Otto, an elderly German... More »