FLYING BLIND by COLIN BOWLES

$12.00 AUD

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OPALESQUE by BERNARD BOUCHER

$30.00 AUD

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MATTHEW FLINDERS 1774-1814 by JAMES D MACK

$20.00 AUD

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The Children's Bach by Helen Garner

$30.00 AUD

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"A celebration of family life in the context of the thousand natural shocks that it is heir to in modern times." ―Book WorldAthena and Dexter Fox lead a contended family life. Dexter is gregarious and opinionated. Athena runs an ordered household. They live in Bunker Street with their sons, Arthur and Billy. Billy's autism is a focus for their attention and efforts, yet life is fairly peaceful.But the arrival of Dexter's old friend Elizabeth, with her three charismatic companions, reveals the existence of a different world. One in which contingency and choice play a far greater role. The collision between these worlds will test everything that has held the Fox family together.In this powerful story, painted on a small canvas and with a subtle musical backdrop, Helen Garner acknowledges the magnitude of everyday decisions and their consequences.The Children's Bach is Garner's second novel. It won the SA Premier's Literary Award. First published in 1984, to critical acclaim, it has never before been available in the United States.Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays, and non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature. In 2016 she won a prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for her non-fiction. Her book of essays, Everywhere I Look, won the 2017 Indie Book Award.Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and is currently a MacArthur Fellow. ...Show more

MONKEY GRIP by HELEN GARNER

$90.00 AUD

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The Touch by Colleen McCullough

$20.00 AUD

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From the 1860s to the turn of the century, The Touch tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees Scotland to make his fortune in the goldfields of Australia and America. When he sends one thousand pounds home to Scotland for a bride, his cousin Elizabeth is despatched by sea, although it is her sist er Jean whom he wanted. In Sydney, she finds Alexander handsome, devilish, rich, and determined to get richer. He marries her and takes her home across the wild and barren countryside to his great house. What he does not tell her is that he made his first fortune in the California gold rush ...Show more

The Good Turn (#3 Cormac Reilly) by Dervla McTiernan

$32.99 AUD

Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser.

The heart-stopping new book in the Cormac Reilly series, by the bestselling author of The Ruin and The Scholar. When Peter Fisher is called to the scene of a supposed prank call, his annoyance turns to terror when he realises this is no joke. A young boy says he witnessed a little girl being bundle d into the boot of a car, and Peter believes him. DI Cormac Reilly and Peter search frantically for answers, but find obstacles put in their way by the one person who should be helping them: Superintendent Bryan Murphy. Frustrated and severely short-staffed, Peter and Cormac are pushed to breaking point, resulting in a fatal mistake. Cormac is suspended from duty and Peter is banished to a tiny town on the West Coast of Ireland, where's he's tasked with doing the paperwork in a murder investigation that's supposed to have been resolved. But something isn't adding up, including the mysterious appearance of a young woman and her nine-year-old daughter, who hasn't spoke a word in months . . .   ...Show more

Just an Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe

$32.99 AUD

Category: Australian Fiction

DESERT SAGA by WILLIAM HATFIELD

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Making Peace by Fiona McCallum

$10.00 AUD

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Does one simple act of kindness have the power to completely turn someone's life around? It's been a year since Hannah Ainsley lost her husband and parents - her whole family - in a car crash on Christmas morning. Despite her overwhelming loss, she's worked hard to pull the pieces of her life together w ith the help of a group of dear, loyal friends. But while Hannah is beginning to become excited about the future again, she's concerned that her best friend, talented artist Sam, is facing a crisis of her own. It's now Hannah's turn to be Sam's rock - can she save Sam's dreams from unravelling? When Hannah returns to work after her holidays, she can't settle. She's loved her job for a decade, and it's been her lifeline during her grief. But something's changed. She's changed. For all this time she's avoided knowing the details of the accident or investigation - what would be the point, she'd thought, when nothing will bring her loved ones back? But after a chance meeting, it's all there in front of her - and, like ripples in a pond, it extends beyond her own experiences. Could knowing be the key to her recovery? Could her involvement be the key to someone else's? ...Show more

THE GREATEST GIFT by RACHAEL JOHNS

$10.00 AUD

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Jewel in the North by Tricia Stringer

$15.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: MIRA

Jewel in the North: A longstanding feud of land and love, a family torn apart and a quest for the ultimate prize...A breathtaking historical family saga of love, death and forgiveness and a quest for the Jewel in the North 1895 The Flinders Ranges are a beautiful but harsh landscape as Joseph Baker, a p astoralist in that unforgiving environment, knows all too well. For three generations his family have farmed the land, married and had children at their property at Wildu Creek, but now, struggling with hostility from the local community for his choice of wife, Joseph finds himself fighting to save not just his friends and family but his very existence. His son William has his own battles to fight: not only the drought that takes over the land but his own despair, as he faces rejection from the woman he loves. Meanwhile, a ruthless enemy will stop at nothing to take from William what he considers to be his. Could the vicious and cunning Charles Wiltshire be his nemesis? Or does another man, in a quest for the Jewel of the North, hold the key to his destruction? As the First World War looms on the horizon, two men struggle to survive both the elements and each other on a quest to find that they hold dear -- but only one will have the courage to stand strong. The deeply satisfying conclusion to the bestselling Flinders Ranges series. ...Show more