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On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a federal election looms and a hardline new policy on asylum-seekers is being rolled out. Not far from ...Show more
Quota by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees that the sea air might be good ...Show more
The Burning Island by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she k ...Show more
Shirl by Wayne Marshall
$24.53 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Shortlisted for the 2019 VPLA for an unpublished manuscript, Shirl expertly dissects the Australian identity through a range of what-if scenarios: a lonely yowie emerges from the bush to attend the Desperate and Dateless Ball; mysterious creatures descend from the sky to place a ban on footy; a shark na ...Show more
The Zookeepers War by Steven Conte
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
In Berlin, who can you trust? A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ...It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husband, Axel, the zoo's director. Together, they struggle to look after the animals through ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
$32.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
In the first year of the doomed German invasion of Russia in WWII, a German military doctor, Paul Bauer, is assigned to establish a field hospital at Yasnaya Polyana - the former grand estate of Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of the classic War and Peace. There he encounters a hostile aristocratic Russia ...Show more
Preservation PB by Jock Serong
$22.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Seventeen men survived the shipwreck of the rum-smuggling Sydney Cove--but only three are picked up on a beach near the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797. The three men have walked hundreds of miles across an alien landscape. They are distressed and injured. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive- ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$24.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$32.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man ...Show more
Sisters by Daisy Johnson
$29.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
The electrifying new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under. 'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller whose tension ratchets up and up to an ending of extraordinary lyricism and virtuosity' Observer. Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September. Desperate f ...Show more
Canvas by Sarah Hope
$32.95 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Canvas, is the sparkling debut novel by Sarah Hope, and readers will relish in her deft literary telling of loves, lives and Australian history. It¿s January 2006, and Alice McKinley has a big problem. Her grandmother, Cecily, has bequeathed her Dunedin, the family¿s crumbling pastoral estate in Victori ...Show more