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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
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
Night-Night, Sleep Tight by Paul Burman
$25.00 AUD
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Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Meg Dapsy's family home has been destroyed in an arson attack. Her mother is dead and her father is missing, but Stella, the younger sister she's always taken care of, has one secret too many... and it involves an old boyfriend. With suspicion falling on a group of militant Animal Rights activists, Meg ...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
The Grease Monkey's Tale by Paul Burman
$25.00 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
For Nic the mechanic 'grease monkey extraordinaire' life is becoming a journey of stories: good, bad, happy and sad. When Siobhan McConnell beautiful, dynamic, but shadowed by secrets - hurtles into his world, Nic's life bounces between tragedy, romance and thriller. Framed for armed robbery, it seems h ...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
Grimmish by Michael Winkler
$28.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-American boxer toured Australia, losing fights but amazing crowds with his showmanship and extraordinary physical resilience. On the east coast Grim played a supporting role in the Jack Johnson-Tommy Burns F ...Show more
The Lost Lovelies Foundation by Beth Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Anita Hammond-Jones is a stylish, charismatic, society figure, applauded for her strength and bravery, tireless advocacy, and speaking her truth.When Anita sets up the Lost Lovelies Foundation after the death of her son, Martha is quick to join and dedicates herself, heart and soul, to the cause. She fo ...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
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
$19.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two year ...Show more
West by Carys Davies
$19.99 AUD
Category: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
An exquisite page-turner from the winner of the 2015 Frank O'Connor Award is "a tightly knit, compulsively readable tale...with all the heft of a sprawling western classic" (Booklist, starred review). When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been disc ...Show more